Darin’s research focuses primarily on the practical purposes to which concepts of addiction, mental illness, and learning disability are applied in various historical and contemporary contexts. He is particularly interested in how these concepts figure in state sponsored campaigns of social welfare and social control, and in what their uses reveal about how and why people distinguish the social and natural forces held to govern human behaviour. Beyond these specific research interests, Darin is also more broadly interested in social theory, the sociology of science, sociology of health and illness, and qualitative research methodologies.
Recent publications:
Weinberg, Darin. 2024. On Addiction: Insights from History, Ethnography and Critical Theory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Bell, Ann V., Annemarie Jutel, Darin Weinberg and Jessica Young, eds. 2024. The Sociology of Diagnosis. Chichester, UK: Wiley
