Annual Review of Sociology articles from January 1 1994

Annual Review of Sociology archives from January 1 1994

Societal taxonomies: mapping the social universe.
January 1, 1994... MAPPING THE SOCIAL UNIVERSE Comprehensive taxonomies that map, or define, relationships among phenomena have been far more important in the development of the various sciences than most sociologists recognize. It is hard to imagine, for...

Women, family and class.
January 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION All classical theories of social stratification and social class share the fundamental assumption that the family is the unit of stratification. This means that members of the same family are assumed to occupy a single position in...

The sociology of ethnic conflicts: comparative international perspectives.
January 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION The current significance of this topic is not in doubt. First, the world-wide prevalence of ethnic diversity is indicated by the presence of about 6000 languages (Grimes 1988) and somewhere between 900 (Murdock 1967) and 1600...

Coresidence and leaving home: young adults and their parents.
January 1, 1994... GENERAL OVERVIEW The likelihood that an adult child will reside with parents declines very sharply after age 18: In 1990, 74% of 18-19 year olds lived with parents, compared to 40% at ages 20-24 and 16% at ages 25-29 (US Bureau of the Census...

Comparative studies in class structure.
January 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION During the 1970s, the ghost of Marx returned to dominate sociological debate in both Europe and North America. Rare was the student who could pass through graduate school untouched by the renaissance in class analysis. Subtle...

Between rocky democracies and hard markets: dilemmas of the double transition.
January 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION In the 1990s capitalism and democracy appear triumphant. The collapse of the Berlin Wall supposedly signaled not only the triumph of liberalism, but even the end of history (Fukuyama 1992). Yet, despite the success in the...

Consequences of marital dissolution for children.
January 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION: MARRIAGE AND CHILDREARING AS CHANGING INSTITUTIONS Increases in divorce and nonmarital childbearing in the United States reduce the centrality of marriage as an institution in which childbearing and childrearing occur. Over this...

Sociobiology and sociology.
January 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION Sociobiology has been defined by Wilson (1975:4) as "the systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior." Specifically, sociobiology focuses on evolutionary explanations of behavior within the context of the...

The new sociology of knowledge.
January 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION The older sociology of knowledge epitomized by Mannheim asked how the social location of individuals and groups shapes their knowledge. Elements of this tradition became institutionalized in sociology and political science as...

Multilevel models: methods and substance.
January 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION Multilevel models are used in sociology to specify the effect of social context on individual-level outcomes. The idea that individuals respond to their social context is a defining claim of the sociological discipline, which is...

Artificial social intelligence.
January 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION Broadly defined, Artificial Social Intelligence (ASI) is the application of machine intelligence techniques to social phenomena. ASI includes both theory building and data analysis. At the theory building level, ASI includes the...

Legal theory and social theory.
January 1, 1994... "[S]ociology [is] the ghost of jurisprudence past." Donald R. Kelley, The Human Measure (1990: 275) INTRODUCTION Annual Review articles customarily begin with a statement about the current salience of the field under review for the...

Stepfamilies in the United States: a reconsideration.
January 1, 1994... INTRODUCTION In the late 1970s, when rates of divorce and remarriage were at historical high points in the United States, each of us separately reviewed the surprisingly small number of studies on stepfamily life. In our reviews, we presented...