Annual Review of Sociology articles from January 1 2004

Annual Review of Sociology archives from January 1 2004

Reflections on a half-century of organizational sociology.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION I had the good fortune to grow up with the field of organizational sociology. When I was in graduate school during the 1950s, the field was just beginning to coalesce, and through the succeeding decades, I observed the...

The sociology of property rights.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Property is ubiquitous. The idea of private property suffuses classic liberal thought. Property rights lie at the intersection of law, economy, the state, and culture. For example, intellectual property rights (IPR) concern...

The sociology of sexualities: queer and beyond.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Over the past decade, the sociology of sexualities has experienced growth that is at once queer and phenomenal. In its infancy and early childhood, the sociology of sexualities was mainly the province of scholars interested in...

The use of newspaper data in the study of collective action.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Scholarship in collective action and social movements has developed a rich research tradition that uses data culled from newspaper reports of these events, among other sources. (1) Subsequent research using a variety of...

Comparative-historical methodology.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Recent years have seen a surge of publications concerning the methods used in comparative-historical analysis. (1) These works reflect a growing self-consciousness about research design among comparative-historical analysts,...

Gender and work in Germany: before and after reunification.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION During the four decades following the Second World War, Germany was divided into two countries. Between 1949 and 1989, East Germany ("the GDR") had a state socialist system, a centrally planned economy, and socialist...

Protest and political opportunities.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Social protest movements make history, one might paraphrase an earlier analyst, albeit not in circumstances they choose. The ongoing interactions between challengers and the world around them determine not only the immediate...

Explaining criminalization: from demography and status politics to globalization and modernization.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Over a half a century ago Edwin Sutherland (1950a,b) published one of "the earliest and best known sociological investigations of the origins of a specific type of criminal law" (Galliher & Tyree 1985, p. 100). In his...

Consumers and consumption.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Until recently, sociologists in the United States have generally ignored the topic of consumption, but they have done so at their peril. Though consuming basic goods is as ancient as human society, there is reason to believe...

The knowledge economy.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Over the past several decades, a number of scholars and commentators have argued that the leading edge of the economy in developed countries has become driven by technologies based on knowledge and information production and...

America's changing color lines: immigration, race/ethnicity, and multiracial identification.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION By the year 2002, the number of foreign-born people living in the United States exceeded 34.2 million, with the size of the U.S.-born second generation about 31.5 million, so that immigrants and their children accounted for...

The "new" science of networks.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Building on a long tradition of network analysis in sociology and anthropology (Degenne & Forse 1994, Scott 2000, Wasserman & Faust 1994) and an even longer history of graph theory in discrete mathematics (Ahuja et al. 1993,...

Sociology of terrorism.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Sociologists had until September 11, 2001, shown little interest in terrorism. Although conflict analysis, in one form or another, is a long established approach in the field, researchers have focused mostly on class and labor...

Narrative explanation: an alternative to variable-centered explanation?
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Only a couple of decades ago, scholars engaged in vigorous debates about the relative virtues of quantitative and qualitative analysis in sociological research. With the development of statistically sophisticated models,...

The production of culture perspective.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION (1) The production of culture perspective focuses on how the symbolic elements of culture are shaped by the systems within which they are created, distributed, evaluated, taught, and preserved. Initially, practitioners of this...

Endogenous explanation in the sociology of culture.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Arguably, the formal sociological study of culture in the United States was launched in response to two prior trends in the humanities: the interpretive tradition of cultural studies in which social artifacts such as books,...

Values: reviving a dormant concept.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION It seems de rigeur in sociological writing to tack on the phrase "norms and values" to explanations of human behavior to connote the taken-for-granted process through which social structures regulate the actions of...

Durkheim's theory of mental categories: a review of the evidence.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION As everybody who has attended scientific conferences, read technical journals, or monitored the popular media knows, modern research has discovered that young children know more at earlier ages than had been...

Social cohesion.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Social cohesion has been an enduring subject of inquiry and review for both sociologists and psychologists (Albert 1953, Bettenhausen 1991, Carron 1982, Cartwright 1968, Doreian & Fararo 1998, Drescher et al. 1985, Evans &...

Low-income fathers.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Once it was customary to begin an article on fathers with a complaint over their relative absence in the sociological literature (and with some hard feelings over mothers getting all the attention). Such grievances are no...

New risks for workers: pensions, labor markets, and gender.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION The American occupational welfare system is distinguished historically from other advanced industrial societies by residualist liberal institutions oriented toward private spending and limited redistribution (Esping-Andersen...

Advocacy organizations in the U.S. political process.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Social scientists studying social movements, interest groups, nonprofits, and democratic politics share common intellectual questions about the causes and consequences of collective action in pursuit of social and political...

Panel models in sociological research: theory into practice.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION "[F]or some reason there is widespread, though not well articulated, opinion that in panel analysis the usual obstacles to inference and estimation are suspended for the benefit of the analyst." Otis Dudley...

Space in the study of labor markets.
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION The idea that spatial arrangements affect labor markets is not new. In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (1976, p. 21) noted that people do not move as often or as easily as commodities because their accessibility to the...