Shared Technology, Competing Logics

This lecture is part of the lecture serie Samtal við samfélagið held by the department of Sociology, Univeristy of Iceland.

Shared Technology, Competing Logics: How Healthcare Providers And Law Enforcement Agents Use Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs To Combat Opioid Abuse

Abstract: Sociologists and socio-legal scholars have explored how social fields transform social problems, but largely overlooked how social problems transform social fields. This research uses the U.S. opioid crisis as a case for examining how efforts to address a shared social problem have transformed the fields of healthcare and criminal justice.

Elizabeth Chiarello, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Saint Louis University. She is a medical sociologist and socio-legal scholar who focuses on institutional influences on frontline work, intersections among organizational fields, and social movement consequences. Her work has been published in several top sociological and socio-legal journals and she has received awards from multiple sections of the American Sociological Association.