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Annual Review of Sociology archives from January 1 2002
Barking up the wrong branch: scientific alternatives to the current model of sociological science.
January 1, 2002... A fortiori it is unlikely that a mere repetition of the tricks which served us so well in physics will dolor the social phenomena too.
(John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern 1944, p. 6)
I do not think the relationship between theory...
Ideas, politics, and public policy.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
Political sociology and political science have focused on how the pursuit of self-interest affects politics and policy making in advanced capitalist societies. This has been true for pluralist, elite, neo-Marxist, historical...
Financial markets, money, and banking.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
The study of financial markets, money, and banking has again begun to play a central role in sociological research. Simmel, Marx, and Weber all wrote important works on these subjects (Marx 1963, Simmel 1978, Weber 1927,...
The sociology of intellectuals.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
The sociology of intellectuals, like its subjects of study, has had a checkered history. At times, the field seemed ready to emerge as a cohesive body of literature, just as its subjects--variously defined in the literature...
Chinese social stratification and social mobility.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
Chinese social stratification and social mobility is a fast growing and exciting area of sociological research. It is fast growing because China's post-1978 economic reforms and consequent large-scale transformations have...
Welfare reform: how do we measure success?
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 ended America's largest cash assistance program--Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Its replacement, Temporary Assistance for...
From factors to actors: computational sociology and agent-based modeling.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION: AGENT-BASED MODELS AND SELF-ORGANIZING GROUP PROCESSES
Consider a flock of geese flying in tight formation. Collectively they form the image of a giant delta-shaped bird that moves as purposively as if it were a single...
The study of boundaries in the social sciences.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
In recent years, the idea of "boundaries" has come to play a key role in important new lines of scholarship across the social sciences. It has been associated with research on cognition, social and collective identity,...
Mathematics in sociology.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
In this article I present the use of mathematics in contemporary sociology by pointing out recent advances and highlighting some major sociological research streams in which mathematics is used intensively. The overview is...
Comparative research on women's employment.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
Women's work is a widely studied phenomenon. The increase in female labor force participation in Western countries has led to a profound interest of sociologists in the causes and effects of women's work. Although labor...
Reconsidering the effects of sibling configuration: recent advances and challenges.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
As the family undergoes swift and often unforeseen changes, so too does debate about its role in modem society. As shown in previous articles in the Annual Review of Sociology, much of this dialogue concentrates on the...
Global ethnography.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
Globalization poses a challenge to existing social scientific methods of inquiry and units of analysis by destabilizing the embeddedness of social relations in particular communities and places. By locating themselves firmly...
Integrating models of diffusion of innovations: a conceptual framework.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
Sociology has long been interested in the factors that influence the spread of innovations across groups, communities, societies, and countries. With the more recent phenomenon of globalization, encompassing highly efficient...
Ethnic boundaries and identity in plural societies.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
Ethnic boundaries are patterns of social interaction that give rise to, and subsequently reinforce, in-group members' self-identification and outsiders' confirmation of group distinctions. Ethnic boundaries are therefore...
The study of Islamic culture and politics: an overview and assessment.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
Despite limited interests in Islam and the dynamics of Muslim societies among American sociologists, the theoretical and historical debates in Islamic studies have revolved, on a higher level of abstraction, around some of...
Violence in social life.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
The sociological analysis of violence has been driven by social and policy imperatives that have molded and warped our understanding of it. Most sociologists relegate violence to the domain of criminology and deviance, and,...
New economics of sociological criminology.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
More than thirty years ago, Gary Becker (1968) introduced sociologists to a neoclassical economic approach to crime. Although most sociological criminologists are familiar with Becker's work and early tests of this approach,...
Assessing "neighborhood effects": social processes and new directions in research.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
At the outset of the 1990s, Jencks & Mayer (1990, Mayer & Jencks 1989) argued that if growing up in a poor neighborhood mattered, intervening processes such as collective socialization, peer-group influence, and...
The changing face of methodological individualism.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
In the social sciences a small number of never-ending debates involve fundamental issues. One of the most intense and most long-standing of these debates is that between methodological individualists and methodological...
Race, gender, and authority in the workplace: theory and research.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION
The conceptualization of job authority as an important dimension of social inequality may be traced to the early theoretical treatises of Max Weber and Karl Marx. The most direct use of authority in quantitative assessments...
