Department of Sociology
University of Oxford
Annual report
Academic year 2010-11
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
Dr Tak Wing Chan (University Lecturer in Sociology, Director of ONSIR, Fellow of New
College)
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION
Katharine Silk (Administrator until December 2010)
Victoria Bancroft (Administrator from April 2011)
Ian Bloomfield (Finance Officer)
Anne Millard (Graduate Studies Administrator)
Jane Greig (Administrative Assistant)
Angelika Kaiser (Administrator, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)
Debbie Alder (Departmental Secretary, & PA to Prof Harper, Oxford Institute of Population
Ageing)
RakeshVerma , (Finance Officer, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)
MEMBERS
Dr Isabella Aboderin, (Wellcome Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)
Dr Michael Biggs (University Lecturer in Sociology, Fellow of St Cross College)
Dr Tak Wing Chan (Head of Department, University Lecturer in Sociology, Director of ONSIR,
Fellow of New College)
Prof Bleddyn Davies (Professorial Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)
Dr Neli Demireva (Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
Prof Nan Dirk De Graaf (Professor of Sociology, Official Fellow of Nuffield College)
Dr Muriel Egerton (Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Time Use Research)
Dr Gabriella Elgenius (British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research Fellow of
Nuffield College)
Prof Geoffrey Evans (Professor of the Sociology of Politics, Official Fellow of Nuffield College)
Dr Kimberly Fisher (Research Fellow, Centre for Time Use Research)
Dr Stephen Fisher (University Lecturer in Political Sociology, Fellow of Trinity College)
Dr Jennifer Flashman (Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College)
Prof Diego Gambetta, FBA (Professor of Sociology, Official Fellow of Nuffield College)
Prof Jonathan Gershuny, FBA (Professor of Sociology, Director of CTUR, Fellow of St Hugh’s
College)
Dr Krista Gile (Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College)
Dr. John Goldthorpe, FBA (Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College)
Dr Kate Hamblin (James Martin Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)
Dr Heather Hamill (University Lecturer in Sociology, Fellow of St Cross College, Deputy Head of
Dept, Deputy Director of EXLEGI)
Prof Sarah Harper (Professor of Gerontology, Director, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)
Prof Anthony Heath, FBA (Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Fellow of Nuffield College)
Prof Peter Hedström (Professor and Official Fellow of Nuffield College)
Dr Ekaterina Hertog (Career Development Fellow)
Dr Andreas Hoff (James Martin Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)
Jaco Hoffman (James Martin Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)
Kenneth Howse (James Martin Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)
Dr Man Yee Kan (RCUK Fellow/ British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, CTUR)
Prof Takehiko Kariya (University Lecturer in the Sociology of Japanese Society, Fellow of St
Antony’s College)
Dr Elina Kilpi – Jakonen (Research Fellow, ONSIR)
Dr Philip Kreager (Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)
Dr George Leeson (Deputy Director and HSBC Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of
Population Ageing)
Dr Luis Miller (Research Fellow, Nuffield College)
Mr Colin Mills (Reader in Sociology, University Lecturer, Fellow of Nuffield College)
Dr Christiaan Monden (University Lecturer in Sociology, Fellow of Nuffield College & Chairman
of Examiners)
Dr Rachel Murphy (University Lecturer in the Sociology of China, Fellow of St Antony’s College)
Prof Leigh Payne (University Lecturer in Latin America, Fellow of St Antony’s College)
Dr Valeria Pizzini-Gambetta (Research Fellow)
Dr Maria Porter (James Martin Research Officer, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)
Dr Wojtek Przepiorka (Research Fellow, Nuffield College)
Dr Felix Reed-Tsochas (James Martin Lecturer in Complex Systems, Co-Director CABDyN
Complexity Centre, Fellow of Green/Templeton College)
Dr Almudena Sevilla Sanz ( Research Fellow, CTUR)
Dr Silke Schneider (Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College)
Prof Tom Snijders (Professor of Statistics in the Social Sciences, Fellow of Nuffield College)
Dr Maria Sobolewska (Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College)
Dr David Stuckler (Junior Research Fellow, Christ Church College)
Dr Oriel Sullivan (Reader in Sociology, Deputy Director CTUR)
Prof Federico Varese (Director of Graduate Studies, Professor of Criminology, Official Fellow of
Linacre College, Director, EXLEGI)
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
Prof Peter Abell (Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics)
Dr Vikki Boliver (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Fellow of Nuffield College)
Ms E David-Barrett (EXLEGI)
Dr Sophie Duchesne (Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Scientific Research)
Dr Muriel Egerton (Research Fellow, CTUR)
Prof Ray Fitzpatrick (Professor of Medical Sociology, Fellow of Nuffield College)
Prof Duncan Gallie, FBA (Professor of Sociology, Official Fellow of Nuffield College)
Dr Sandra Gonzalez Bailon (Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute)
Mr Alan Hudson (Director of Studies in Social and Political Science, OUDCE and Fellow of
Kellogg College)
Mr. Kenneth Macdonald (University Lecturer in Applied Social Studies, Fellow of Nuffield
College)
Dr Raya Muttarak (Marie Curie Research Fellow, Visiting Fellow, European Institute, Florence)
Dr Tiziana Nazio (Research Associate)
Prof Avner Offer, FBA (Chichele Professor of Economic History, Fellow of All Souls College)
Dr Alice Sullivan (Research Fellow, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education)
Dr. Rebecca Surender (University Lecturer, SPSW, Fellow of Green Templeton College)
Dr Adam Swift (Fellow of Balliol College)
Dr James Tilley (University Lecturer in Quantitative Political Science, Fellow of Jesus College)
Prof Geoffrey Walford (Professor of Education Policy, Fellow of Green College)
OFFICERS
Head of Department
Tak Wing Chan
Director of Graduate Studies
Federico Varese
Taught Course Director
Heather Hamill
Editor of Working Paper Series
Tak Wing Chan
Chairman of Examiners
Christiaan Monden
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MSc STUDENTS
Jujhar Dhanda, (St Antony’s)
‘"Choice", "Preferences" and Work: Does Parental Leave Make a Difference for Women?’
(supervised by Ekaterina Hertog)
Maja Djundeva, (Kellogg)
(supervised by Jennifer Flashmann)
Florian Foos, (Nuffield)
‘Linking economic inequality and political behaviour at the micro level: How perceptions
of growing income inequality influence the rational choice of American voters.’
(supervised by Steve Fisher)
Michael Gratz, (St Antony’s)
‘Social origin and labour market outcomes. Trends in intergenerational social mobility in
Germany’
(supervised by Wojtek Przepiorka)
Maximilian Hell (Kellogg)
‘Work values in the UK: Evidence for life cycle effects’
(supervised by Tak Wing Chan)
Ross Hughes (St Cross)
‘''Not Tonight I'm Afraid'' Signalling and Desirability at the Point of Entry in British
Nightclubs’ (supervised by Christiaan Monden)
Aparajita Kashyap (Green Templeton )
(supervised by Silke Schneider)
Ruya Koskun (St Hugh’s)
‘When Lone Mothers Marry: Effect of Children on Mate Selection in Britain’
(supervised by Ekaterina Hertog)
Anton Krasun (St Cross)
‘Political participation and integration of Ethnic Minorities in Britain’
(supervised by Neli Demireva)
Kristen Lau (St Anthony’s)
(supervised by Heather Hamill)
Jonathan Lusthaus (St Cross)
‘Trust in the World of Cybercrime’
(supervised by Valeria Pizzini-Gambetta)
Ali Mansour (St Cross)
‘Indirect Prejudice and Framing Effect’
(supervised by Elina Kilpi-Jakonen)
Nicole Martin (St Cross)
‘Ethnic minority candidates and voter turnout in the 2010 British General Election’
(Supervised by Steve Fisher)
Isabel Palma (Wolfson)
‘Gender Inequality in Chile: The impact of education and childbearing on the labour market
participation of women in Chile’
(supervised by Christiaan Monden)
Purnima Prakash (Kellogg)
(supervised by Christiaan Monden)
William van Taack (St Antony’s)
'Falling Back on Principles: Electoral Behaviour under Perceptions of Uncertainty'
(supervised by Steve Fisher)
Linden Vongsathorn (St Cross)
‘Investigating the use of Twitter during the 2010 and 2011 London student protests’
(supervised by Luis Miller)
Pisitta Vongswasdi (St Cross)
‘The Impact of Workplace Gender Composition on Job Satisfaction: Evidence from the UK’
(supervised by Oriel Sullivan)
Andrew Wallace (New)
‘Corruption and legislation: the relationship between legislative output and corruption’
(supervised by Federico Varese)
Wei Wang (Lady Margaret Hall)
‘Who return and why return? Research on internal return migration in China’
(supervised by Takehiko Kariya)
Zhiwen Zhao (St Hugh’s)
‘Do the British Keep up with the Joneses? Conspicuous Consumption, Work Hours and
Debt in the U.K’
(supervised by Tak Wing Chan)
DPhil completed
Densley, James (St Antony’s, [email protected])
‘Under the Hood: The Mechanics of London's Street Gangs’
(supervised by Heather Hamill)
Grasso, Maria (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘Political Involvement in Western Europe’
(supervised by Steve Fisher)
Grund, Thomas (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘How to win the Premiership - Team Dynamics and Team Performance’
(supervised by Michael Biggs)
Guzzo, Silvano (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘Unpacking the Class Effect: A Study Into the Mechanisms Sustaining Social Class
Stability’ (supervised by Colin Mills)
Koo, Chul Hoi (Wolfson, chul.koo wolfson.ox.ac.uk.)
‘Income Inequality in Later Life’
(supervised by Sarah Harper)
Mustafa, Asma (St Cross, asma.mustafa stx.ox.ac.uk)
‘How Does Religious and Ethnic Identity Influence the Political Engagement of Second
Generation British Muslims?’ (supervised by Anthony Heath)
Ochoa Hernandez, Mauricio (St Anthony’s, [email protected]
‘Order in Chaos: Finding Protection in the Context of an Ineffective State. Communities in
Mexico City’ (supervised by Heather Hamill)
Starbuck, Mark (Green, [email protected])
‘A Comparative Study of Tipping Practices and Attitudes’
(supervised by Diego Gambetta)
Sutherland, Alex (Nuffield, [email protected])
“Adolescent substance use”
(supervised by Heather Hamill)
DPhil
Ahmad, Norainie (St Cross, [email protected])
‘A Macro-Micro Approach to Investigating the Determinants of the Fertility Transition in
Brunei Darussalam’ (supervised by George Leeson)
Ali, Irum Shehreen (St Hilda’s, [email protected])
‘Democracy: The nature of democratic support, institutional trust and political participation
in Bangladesh’ (supervised by Steve Fisher)
Ali, Sundas (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘Muslims in Britain: Identities and Sense of Belonging’
(supervised by Anthony Heath)
Altintas, Evrim (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘Parents' Time with Children: Micro and Macro Perspectives’
(supervised by Jonathan Gershuny)
Ata-Ullah, Najm-Ul-Sahr (St Hilda’s, [email protected])
‘The case of social accountability in Pakistan’
(supervised by Anthony Heath)
Beach, Brian (St Cross, [email protected])
‘'The Role of Employability in the Labour Market Transitions of Older Workers: A CrossNational Study in Europe'. (supervised by George Leeson)
Bennett, Matthew (Nuffield, [email protected])
"Good Shepherds: A Comparative Study of Religious Context and Pro-social Behaviour"
(supervised by Nan Dirk de Graaf)
Bessudnov, Alexey (St Antony's, [email protected])
‘Essays on Occupational Social Class and Status in Post-Soviet Russia’
(supervised by Tak Wing Chan)
Bhambra, Manmit (St Cross, [email protected])
‘Britishness and the British-Born Asian Youth; An examination and comparison of youth
identity and national identification in London, Birmingham and Leeds’
(supervised by Anthony Heath)
Biehl Lundberg, Andres (St Antony’s, [email protected])
‘Diverging trends of inequality and taxation: South America and Scandinavia, 1900-1940’
(supervised by Tak Wing Chan)
Block, Per (Nuffield, per.block@nuffield .ox.ac.uk)
‘The Role of Homophily in Network Formation’
Supervised by Peter Hedström
Blossfeld, Gwendolin (Nuffield, [email protected]
Balancing Education, Family, and Work Commitment in Eastern and Western Germany:
Changes Over the Life Course and Across Cohorts (supervised by Colin Mills)
Canales, Andrea (St Cross, [email protected])
Degree attainment in higher education in the UK: the individual and compositional
mechanisms that explain different student’s chances of completing a degree
(supervised by Vikki Boliver & Colin Mills)
Chen, Taichang (St Antony’s, [email protected])
‘Intergenerational Transfers and Well-Being in Old Age in Contemporary Urban and Rural
China’ (supervised by George Leeson)
Chen, Yunsong (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘Identifying the causal effects of social capital in labour markets: Estimation strategies and
empirical evidence’ (supervised by Peter Hedstrom)
Chung, Soo Min (St Cross, [email protected])
‘Was it worth moving after all?.’
(supervised by Takehiko Kariya)
Dhattiwala, Raheel (Nuffield, [email protected])
Islands of Peace: A study of variations over space in the occurrence of Hindu-Muslim
violence in western India
(supervised by Michael Biggs & Anthony Heath)
Ermis, Asli (St Hugh’s, [email protected])
Horizontal Gender Segregation in the Labour Market
(supervised by Jonathan Gershuny & Vikki Boliver)
Fahlander, Jon (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘The social production of happiness – A behavioural approach’
(supervised by Peter Hedström)
Forestan, Elisa (Trinity, [email protected])
‘The Role of Social Ties in School Decision Making Processes at the End of Compulsory
Schooling in England’. (supervised by Anthony Heath)
Fuhr, Christina (St Catherine’s, [email protected])
‘Jewish Identity Creation in Contemporary Britain’
(supervised by Michael Biggs & Gabriella Elgenius)
Ghillani, Francesca (Wolfson, [email protected])
The dynamics of body changes and self in old age: a comparative study with italian older
women living in Italy and in UK
(supervised by Sarah Harper)
Gonzalez Sancho, Carlos (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘Parental similarity in education and children's schooling outcomes’
(supervised by Jonathan Gershuny)
Harris, Robert (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘Social Class and the London Technical Education Scholarship Programme 1900-1902: An
Investigation into Historical Methods of Class Analysis’ (supervised by Colin Mills)
Henderson, Morag (St Cross, [email protected])
'Family Matters: Inequality Starts At Home'
(supervised by Tak Wing Chan)
Hoffman, Jacobus (St Antony’s, [email protected])
Older Persons and the Intergenerational Contract in Contemporary South
Africa: configurations and reconfigurations in the context of HIV/AIDS
(supervised by Sarah Harper)
Ibarra Olivares, Rebeca (Wolfson, [email protected])
‘Tax Behavior: Microfoundations and Social Mechanisms’
(supervised by Michael Biggs)
Inanc, Hande (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘Labour Market Insecurity and Family Relationships in Great Britain’
(supervised by Duncan Gallie)
Irwin, Pamela (Kellogg, [email protected])
‘An analysis of social resilience in single older women in rural Australia’
(supervised by George Leeson)
Jun, Jiweon (St Cross, [email protected])
‘The impact of socio-cultural expectations on the retirement decision’
(supervised by George Leeson)
Jung, Jeaah (St Cross, jeaah.jung stx.ox.ac.uk)
‘Balancing the Five Pillars of Old Age Material Security: a case study of Korea’
(supervised by George Leeson)
Kanagaratnam, Usha (St Antony’s, [email protected])
‘Examining trends and determinants of poverty over time in rapidly developing Southeast
Asian countries’
(supervised by Christiaan Monden)
Kim, Bohyun (St Cross, [email protected])
“The Social Determinants of Working Mothers’ Health in Different Societal Contexts: A
Comparative Study of South Korea, Japan, Great Britain and the United States”
(supervised by Takehiko Kariya)
Kozak, Ladislav (St Cross, [email protected])
‘Marital Intentions During Cohabitation and the Household Division of Labour’
(supervised by Jonathan Gershuny)
Lam, Sanches (St Hugh’s, [email protected])
(supervised by OIA)
Laurence, James (St John’s, [email protected])
‘Does Ethnic Diversity pose a Threat to Social Cohesion? An investigation into the
relationship between diversity, 'social capital' and 'inter-ethnic relations' in UK
communities’ (supervised by Anthony Heath)
Laurie, Charles (Green, charles.laurie green.ox.ac.uk)
‘Conflict in Zimbabwe’s Land Seizure Era’
(supervised by Heather Hamill)
Lee, Dae Jin (Wolfson, [email protected])
(supervised by OIA)
Liu, Suyu (Linacre, [email protected])
'Chinese higher education and labour market'
(supervised by Colin Mills)
Lin, (Lily) Qianhan (St Antony's, qianhan.lin sant.ox.ac.uk)
‘Rustication - Punishment or Reward: A Life Course Study of the Generation of the
Cultural Revolution’ (supervised by Jonathan Gershuny)
Luthfa, Samina (St Cross, [email protected])
‘Confronting the Juggernaut of Extraction: Local, National and Transnational Mobilization
against the Phulbari Coal Mine in Bangladesh’
(supervised by Michael Biggs)
Majed, Rima (St Cross, [email protected])
"From Political Protest to Sectarian Violence: the Case of the Sunni-Shiite Split in
Lebanon"
(supervised by Michael Biggs)
Mamidi, Pavan (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘Strategic Manipulation of Caste Identity Signals’
(supervised by Diego Gambetta)
Massa, Evelyne (St Cross, evelyne,[email protected])
‘Why do (Some) Protest? Understanding Agency, Resistance and Protest in Immigration
Detention’ (supervised by Michael Biggs)
Mellon, Jonathan (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘Measured attitudes: assessing the assumptions of multilingual survey and internet
research’
(Supervised by Steve Fisher)
Mhaskar, Sumeet (St Antony’s, [email protected])
‘Examining trends and determinants of poverty over time in rapidly developing Southeast
Asian countries’(supervised by Anthony Heath and Nandini Gooptu)
Muller, Tim (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘On secularization – How cultural traditions, institutional configurations and conflicts shape
individual secularization outcomes’ (supervised by Nan Dirk de Graaf)
Omkar, Krishna (Merton, [email protected])
'Between Being and Believing: Understanding Veiling In The West'
(supervised by Heather Hamill)
O’Neill, Patricia (St Antony’s, [email protected])
Changing Roles and Status of Chinese Daughters; Implications for Elder Abuse
(supervised by Sarah Harper)
Ozdemir, Burcu (Green Templeton, [email protected])
"Intergenerational Solidarity Between Adult Children and Elderly Parents in Turkey"
(supervised by Sarah Harper)
Papanastasiou, Anastasia, (St Cross, [email protected])
‘Between religious and ethnic identity: The case of Muslim migrants in Greece’
(supervised Jonathan Gershuny)
Parameshwaran, Meenakshi (Nuffield, [email protected])
Ethnic Inequalities in Education in England
(supervised by Anthony Heath)
Park, Seung-Min (Kellogg, [email protected])
Intergenerational Solidarity and Quality of Life of Middle Aged and Older People in South
Korea (Supervised by George Leeson)
Peri Rotem, Nitzan (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘ Education and Fertility: Cross-National and Panel Analysis’
(supervised by Oriel Sullivan)
Pesquera Menendez, Patricia (Nuffield, [email protected]
‘The Intergenerational Transmission of Party Preferences Within the Famly’
(supervised by Anthony Heath)
Phakathi, Timothy (Green, timothy.phakathi green.ox.ac.uk)
‘Workplace Transformation and the Working Lives of Mineworkers in the Post-apartheid
South African Gold Mining Industry’
(supervised by Colin Mills)
Prescott, Hannah (Linacre, [email protected])
The Anti-Trafficking Movement in the United States: How do Grievances Become
Constructed?" (supervised by Colin Mills )
Rees, Griffith (St Cross, [email protected])
‘Geographic Diffusion of A Social Network’
(supervised by Michael Biggs)
Rienecker, Laura (Nuffield, [email protected])
"What Makes Dual Career Couples Successful?"
(Supervised by Jonathan Gershuny)
Reissfelder, Stephane (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘Dynamics of Participation and Competition in Philanthropy’
(supervised by Michael Biggs)
Richardson, Lindsey (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘When work is more than a job: predicting employment and its impacts among people who
inject drugs’
(supervised by Jonathan Gershuny)
Sarawgi, Shreya (St Hilda’s, [email protected])
‘Ethnicity and Electoral Behaviour in India’
(supervised by Steve Fisher and Anthony Heath)
Shipley, Andrew (Brasenose, [email protected])
‘The Development and Structure of Political Ideology: a socialization approach’
(supervised by Anthony Heath)
Sinha, Samir (New, [email protected])
‘The Sociology of Interprofessional Relations: A Case Study of English Care Trusts’
(supervised by Sarah Harper)
Spreckelsen, Thees (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘“For King and Country” – The inclusive effects of national identity, measurement and
analysis ‘ (supervised by Anthony Heath)
Suen, Yiu Tung (St Antony’s, [email protected])
‘Lifelong Singlehood: Blessing or Curse? A Sociological Analysis’
(supervised by George Leeson)
Szekely, Aron (St Cross, [email protected])
‘Blasé: Investigations into Non-monotonic Signalling’
(Supervised by Diego Gambetta)
Takahashi, Fumiko (St Antony’s, [email protected])
‘National Identity and Multiculturalism in Japan - Is Japanese society really assimilative?’
(supervised by Anthony Heath and Takehiko Kariya)
Taylor, Mark (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘Reading for pleasure: trends, patterns, and implications'
(Supervised by Tak Wing Chan)
Techanuvat, Chinnawut (St Antony's, chinnawut.techanuvat sant.ox.ac.uk)
‘Educational Opportunities in Transitional Thailand: A Quantitative Study of Nang Rong’
(supervised by Anthony Heath)
Thomas, Jewel (St Cross, [email protected])
‘Risk and Panics: National newspaper coverage of the cases of the contraceptive pill, drug
facilitated sexual assault, dangerous dogs and road rage in the United Kingdom’
(supervised by Heather Hamill)
Toma, Sorana (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘The role of migrant networks in international mobility. The case of Senegalese
international migration’
Supervised by Anthony Heath)
Tye, Matthew (Exeter, [email protected])
‘Increasing Longevity in Vietnam: Strategies for Long-Term Care - The Intergenerational
Contract’
(Supervised by Sarah Harper)
Tzeng, Chien-Chun (St Edmund Hall, [email protected])
Institutionalized network or networked institutionalization? A case study of NPOs
promoting “Active Ageing” programmes
(supervised by Sarah Harper)
Wilkins Laflamme, Sarah (Nuffield, [email protected])
'Towards Religious Polarisation in the West? Measuring Long-Term Effects on Religious
Commitment in 26 Countries'
Supervised by Nan Dirk de Graaf)
Ustek, Funda (St Cross, funda,[email protected])
‘Obstacles less-educated women face in the labour market: A social capital approach’
(supervised by Takehiko Kariya)
Williams, Mark (Nuffield, [email protected])
‘The Changing Structure of Wages in Great Britain, 1970s-2000s’
(supervised by Colin Mills)
Yoda, Otoe (St Hilda’s, [email protected])
‘The labour market integration of third country nationals: Human capital selectivity and
logitudinal effects of labour market institutions - A cross national study’
(Supervised by Anthony Heath)
Zhao, Keke (Green Templeton, [email protected])
‘East or West, Nest is Best. A sociological exploration of household structures of the
elderly in the UK’
(supervised by George Leeson)
MPhil
Catalina Diaz (St Cross)
(supervised by Heather Hamill)
Juta Kawalerowicz (St Cross)
(supervised by Michael Biggs)
Dingeman Wiertz (Nuffield)
‘Attitudes to public pension provision in Britain: an intensifying intergenerational conflict?’
(supervised by Christiaan Monden)
SEMINAR SPEAKERS
11th October
18th October
25th October
1st November
8th November
15th November
22nd November
29th November
17th January
24th January
31st January
7th February
14th February
21st February
Organizing Crime: Drug Smugglers, Human
Trafficking and Gang Members
Accounting, Institutions and Corruption
Between Economic Theorizing and
Sociological Explanation: Social Norms in
Prostitution Research
Intergenerational Returns to Migration: an
examination of educational
attainment on both sides of the German
border
Sex-Typed Occupational Aspirations
amongst Young Children: Socialization,
agency and unexplained effects
Scott Decker,
Arizona State University
Bertrand Venard, Audencia
Nantes School of Management
Stef Adriaenssens, University
College Brussels
Renee Reichl Luthra,
ISER, University of Essex
Javier Polavieja
(Madrid Institute for
Advanced Studies)
Gender and cohort differences in labour
market entry occupations
The Equalizing Effect of Wives’ Earnings
on Inequalities in Earnings
From Cybercrime to Cyberwarfare: Hackers
and their Multiple Uses
A World of Difference: International
Trends in Women’s Economic Status
Prof Shirley Dex (Institute of
Education)
Gunn Birkelund (University of
Oslo)
Misha Glenny
Single-sex Schooling and Labour Market
Outcomes
The Crime Reducing Effect of Education
Dr Alice Sullivan (Institute of
Education)
Prof Stephen Machin
(University College London)
Dr Marlis Buchmann
(University of Zurich)
Long-Term Shifts in Employers’ Gendered
Hiring Preferences in Switzerland: 19502010
Young Children, Digital Media, Language,
Literacy
The Temporal Ordering of Everyday
Practices: Sequence Analysis and
Sustainable Consumption
Dr Maria Charles (University
of California, San Diego)
Prof Michael Bittman
(University of New England)
Prof Dale Southerton
(University of Manchester)
28th February
Changing work time patterns
7th March
Working schedules in UK, France, Finland
and Spain
21st March
Introduction to methods for analysis of
combined individual and aggregate social
science data
1st and 2nd April
A conference to celebrate the work of Prof
Anthony Heath
Ethnic stratification in China’s labor
markets: the case of Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region
The gender revolution: uneven and stalled
9th May
16th May
23rd May
30th May
6th June
13th June
27th June
Cross-national similarity and difference in
the changing distribution of household
income
Has the brain drain from Israel intensified?
Selectivity patterns of Israeli-born
immigrants to the US, 1975-2009
Regional integration and welfare- state
convergence in Europe
Ethnic difference or social closure? Cultural
heterogeneity in 25 European countries
How the US Became Dry: Ethnicity,
Religion, and Urbanization in the Adoption
of Prohibition, 1890 – 1919
Prof Ignace Glorieux (Free
University of Brussels)
Dr Laurent Lesnard and Dr
Man Yee Kan (Sciences Po,
Paris, and University of
Oxford)
Prof Nicky Best, Dr Steve
Fisher and Dr Jane De Lance
Holmes (Imperial College,
London, Oxford University
and Imperial College, London)
Various
Prof Xiogang Wu (Hong Kong
University of Science and
Technology)
Prof Paula England (Stanford
University and New York
University)
Prof Arthur Alderson (Indiana
University)
Prof Yinon Cohen (Columbia
University)
Prof Jason Beckfield (Harvard
University)
Prof Andreas Wimmer
(University of California, Los
Angeles)
Prof Kenneth T Andrews
(University of North Carolina)
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S REPORT
Head of Department’s report 2010/2011
The year has finished on a very positive note, as Oxford Sociology was placed at No 3 in the QS
2011 World University rankings for Sociology, ahead of all other UK departments and institutions,
and behind only Harvard University and the University of California (Berkeley). This is a
significant positioning and encouragement for a young department which is keen to consolidate a
reputation as a world leader in sociology.
Major Publications
Members of the Department continue to publish in the best journals in the discipline. In terms of
books, Professor Federico Varese’s ‘Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New
Territories’ and Dr Heather Hamill’s ‘The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast’ were both
published by Princeton University Press. Professor Leigh Payne’s book ‘Transitional Justice in
Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficiency’ was published by the United States Institute
of Peace Press.
Public appearances and media coverage
Members of the department continue to make a significant contribution to sociological analysis both
in the UK and internationally. Professor Jonathan Gershuny spoke on 'Changing Times: What Can
Politicians Learn From Time Use Studies?' at the Policy Exchange in London on 5 April 2011, and
Dr Stephen Fisher briefed the media on the 2011 local elections at the Institute for Government in
London on 12 April 2011. In March the Minister of State for Universities and Science, David
Willetts, confessed in the House of Commons to having "read the whole paper" of ‘Schooling
effects on degree performance: a comparison of the predictive validity of aptitude testing and
secondary school grades at Oxford University’ by Thomas Ogg (MSc, 2007), Dr Anna Zimdars
(DPhil, 2007) and Prof Anthony Heath. That paper is in turn based on Thomas Ogg's MSc (2007)
thesis.
Dr Michael Biggs was interviewed for BBC world news online, The Takeaway on (US) National
Public Radio, All Things Considered on (US) National Public Radio, (US) Public Radio
International, Newshour on the BBC World Service, and The Wide Angle on Newstalk Radio
Ireland. Dr Biggs was discussing his work on examples of suicide protest—in Tunisia, Algeria,
Egypt and Mauritania—which came out of his research on self-immolation in the twentieth century.
Radio 4's Thinking Allowed interviewed Dr Heather Hamill on the impact of paramilitary
punishment attacks on the young delinquents of Belfast, following publication of her book ‘The
Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast’. Dr Oriel Sullivan’s research concluding that men are
unlikely to be doing an equal share of the housework much before 2050 was featured in the Daily
Telegraph of 21 May 2011. Professor Sarah Harper was also featured on Radio 4’s Today
programme, discussing the retirement age policy. Professor Federico Varese appeared on the BBC
World Service programme The Forum discussing 'What is it that makes some people want to hurt or
kill?'. His book ‘Mafias on the Move’ has been recently reviewed by the Wall St Journal and the
Financial Times, and he also appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed to discuss his work.
Professor Diego Gambetta saw his book ‘Codes of the Underworld’ translated into Chinese.
Recently, the work of Professor Gambetta and Professor Varese was discussed in the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung.
Academic awards
Dr Man Yee Kan was awarded a scholarship by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst
(DAAD) to visit the University of Rostock and DIW Berlin in July 2011.
Staff changes
Professor Colin Crouch, from Warwick Business School joined the department in April as an
Associate Member, and Professor John Ermisch, of the University of Essex, has been appointed to a
Professorship of Family Demography. Professor Ermisch has collaborated widely with Professor
Diego Gambetta, and will take up his post in the department from December 2011.
The department said goodbye to Dr Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, ONSIR postdoctoral Research Fellow,
who took up a postdoctoral position at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, and to Dr Silke
Schneider, who was appointed to the position of deputy head – and from 2012 onwards head – of
the knowledge transfer unit as GESIS in Mannheim. After four years as Departmental
Administrator Mrs Katherine Silk moved to take up a post at Imperial College London; she has
been succeeded by Miss Victoria Bancroft, formerly Head of Administration (Business Futures) at
Oxford Brookes University Business School.
Plans for the department’s future:
Following the Departmental review of Hilary 2010, the Department is following through the various
recommendations of the review panel, including plan to find an alternative home elsewhere in the
University for the Oxford Institute of Ageing, revamping the MPhil in Sociology, developing
stronger links with the Sociology group of Nuffield College, and building ties with other Sociology
departments in the UK.
In broad terms, strategically, the department is preparing for the REF submission, and concentrating
upon applying for larger research grants in order to improve the research overheads income, and to
enhance reputation. Reputationally, it is important for the department to ‘stamp its mark’ on the UK
(as noted in the beginning of this report, it is already widely recognized as a world university
leader). A marketing and communications strategy for the department is being developed, and this
will aim to attract a wider field of highly qualified applicants for the graduate courses. External
links with partnerships via OXPO and EQUALSOC are being strengthened. An ESRC grant
proposal has recently been submitted to develop training workshops and programmes for teachers
of undergraduate social scientists, involving UK, EU and international speakers, and targeting a
mostly UK market. The Centre for Time Use Research (CTUR) continues to make a significant
impact, and Professor Gershuny plans to devote more of his time to this project from early 2012.
Financially, although the department has been affected, like others, by external cuts, research
activity continues to be the department’s major focus, and all academic staff have been actively
encouraged to engage in bidding for funding.
Conclusion
All in all, the department remains positive about the future, and is confident about meeting some
inevitable challenges over the next year.
INDIVIDUAL REPORTS
MEMBERS
Michael Biggs
Michael Biggs’ research on suicide protest attracted considerable media attention with the death of
Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia, widely credited with sparking the Arab spring. Biggs certainly has a
great face for radio. Research continued on the 1960 sit-ins (with Kenneth Andrews, University of
North Carolina), turning to the analysis of their consequences. Their new paper (under review)
demonstrates that sit-in protest greatly increased the probability of desegregation, even after
controlling for economic and political factors that made protest more or less likely. Two new
research projects were initiated on contemporary Britain. First, the British National Party’s leaked
membership list was combined with Census data to pinpoint the localities most receptive to the far
right. ‘Explaining Membership in the British National Party: A Multilevel Analysis of Contact and
Threat’ (coauthored with Steve Knauss, former MSc student) is published in the European
Sociological Review. The mobilization of Oxford students against the tripling of tuition fees
provided a convenient opportunity for research, aided by the Fell Fund. Christina Fuhr (DPhil
student) has carried out twenty interviews to compare participants and non-participants, and an
article on self-defeating radicalism is planned. Finally, Raheel Dhattiwala (DPhil student) and Biggs
have conducted a quantitative analysis of Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002.
Tak Wing Chan
Tak Wing Chan completed the second of his three years stint as Head of Department. It has been a
demanding year, but he has kept up with his research on several fronts. With John Ermisch (who
will join the Department in December 2011) he is working on intergenerational exchange and
parent-children relationship in the UK. With Vikki Boliver (Durham University), he is working on
social mobility over three generations. With Elina Kilpi (Bamberg University) he is working on the
reversal of the gender gap in educational attainment. He has also continued his research on social
status and cultural consumption, which is supported by a three-year British Academy Research
Development Award from September 2011. Over the academic year, he has given research
seminars in Academia Sinica (Taipei), Bocconi University (Milan), Juan March Institute (Madrid),
University of Essex, University of Manchester, and University of West of Scotland, and at the
annual meetings of the British Sociological Association, the British Society of Population Studies,
and the spring meeting of ISA RC28
Geoffrey Evans
Geoffrey Evans (Professor of the Sociology of Politics) completed a book length manuscript:
Political Choice Matters: Explaining the strength of class and religious cleavages in cross-national
perspective (with Nan Dirk De Graaf). This edited volume examines evidence of the impact of party
positions on voters’ political choices across a broad range of societies. He also has a paper with
James Tilley examining the impact of the main political parties’ ideological convergence on the
decline of class voting in Britain forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science. James and
he have also recently written a piece for this year’s British Social Attitudes report charting the social
and political divisions associated with private versus state schooling.
He also continued work on a monograph based on his EU-funded project on ‘Inequality and
Democracy’ in post-communist societies (with Stephen Whitefield). Ksenia Mankowska and he
have an article on the social and political implications of the post-Soviet Russian Orthodox revival
under review. He has also been examining developments in majority-minority tolerance in Eastern
Europe.
With Kat Czhzen and Mark Pickup he is using the 2005-2010 British Election panel study to
examine, among other things, the impact of recession and financial crisis on the influence of
economic perceptions in models of party evaluation and vote choice and the extent to which
performance-based models of party choice are valid explanations of electoral behaviour. Mark
Pickup and he have also devised new instruments for economic perceptions and have been
examining their impact on political preferences in the 2010 election campaign.
A paper with Pauline Rose examining the role of schooling in facilitating support for democracy in
Sub-Saharan Africa is forthcoming in the Journal of Development Studies. Other work examining
the influence of ‘respect for political opponents’ on democratic participation (with Mansur Lalljee
and others) is under review.
Kimberly Fisher
Over the 2010-2011 academic year, I have been involved a wide variety of resource, promotion and
publication activities. I began this year writing a report on trends in volunteering activity for Daniel
Chandler of the Strategy Unit in Cabinet Office. I have begun working on research with a PhD student in
the Department of Zoology using the MTUS to explore which daily behaviour patterns are
associated with tick-bourne disease, and worked with Australian colleague Michael Bittman
finishing a paper using time diaries to estimate the size of the population of people who provide
informal adult care services but who do not self-identify as carers. I personally participated in and
oversaw work upgrading the MTUS, which included the development of ethnicity and region
supplementary files; the upgrade of data from Australia (1998), Finland (1979), the Netherlands
(1985-1995), and the addition of new data from Australia (2006) and the USA (2006-2007). I
served as an invited discussant and presenter of a paper at the first international time use conference
in the Republic of Korea (International Conference on Time Use Studies: Current Issues and
Prospects of Time Use Studies in East and West), and at this time also negotiated with members of
the official statistical agency in that country for the potential inclusion of Korea national time use
data in the MTUS. I again served as an invited discussant and also presented a posted on the
Multinational Time Use Study at the University of Maryland International Perspectives on Time
Use Conference, as well as giving a training session at a workshop demonstrating the research uses
of the American Time Use Study-X web-based resources. I was involved in a large scale grant
application with the ATUS-X team which, while not successful, has been given a sufficiently high
rating by the National Science Foundation in the USA that we have been invited to reapply in
November 2011. In addition, I oversaw the development of a beta-version of a web-based service
documenting policy applications using time diary data, in addition to developing the initial new web
pages and web-resources of the International Association for Time Use Research. I have been part
of a team of international colleagues from the International Association for Time Use Research and
International Association of Feminist Economists working on a project funded by the Swedish
International Development Agency to promote increased capacity to collect and analyse time use
data. This project developed web-based resources and a curriculum for teaching. The first workshop
took place in Beijing from 29 June-1 July. The session I taught alone on the use of location
information in diary data received the highest evaluation of the units on this course by the
participants. As one of the four core IATUR executive officers, I have spent considerable time
overhauling the association to permit the incorporation of IATUR, which will facilitate raising more
money to continue the promotional and research activities of the Association. Sarah Forrest, whom
CTUR hired to work as a conference organiser, and I did the majority of the organisational work for
the IATUR conference with CTUR hosted in August (at the beginning of the current academic year).
As this conference was the largest IATUR conference so far, as well as the conference attracting the
widest range of disciplines (anthropology, architecture, biology, economics, general medicine,
political science, public policy, psychology, sociology, statistics, theology, zoology, among others),
the organisation involved a great deal of work. Finally, I have worked on the development of an
application to expand and improve the CTUR time use publications database, which will include an
element of research into the development of the literature in this field.
Steve Fisher
I have been working on various project, several were especially linked with the 2010 British
General Election which resulted in several publications.
Anthony Heath
I have retired from the Chair of Sociology and the Nuffield Professorial Fellowship, but I now have
two half-time Professorial positions – one in Oxford and one at the Institute for Social Change in
Manchester.
In Oxford I am continuing to supervise doctoral students, and while the number is steadily declining
as they successfully complete, they are not yet down to single figures. I am also continuing to work
with Miles Hewstone, Neli Demireva (Nuffield) and others on a Leverhulme-funded project on
ethno-religious diversity and social cohesion. And with Miles Hewstone and Meena
Parameshwaran (Nuffield) I am working on the English component of a cross-national study of the
social, cultural and structural integration of young people (comparing minorities with the White
British majority group). This is a school-based panel study and after heroic efforts by the National
Centre for Social Research, our fieldwork institute, we have successfully recruited over 100 schools.
In Manchester I am continuing to work on the Ethnic Minority British Election survey (EMBES)
with Maria Sobolewska (formerly Nuffield), Steve Fisher, David Sanders (Essex) and Gemma
Rosenblatt (Electoral Commission). We successfully completed fieldwork last summer and are
now drafting a book for OUP. I am also working with Bob Putnam on the last of the
Harvard/Manchester comparative projects; this one is on the social consequences of Hard Times. I
am also working with Rob Ford (formerly Nuffield) on a study of attitudes to immigration (funded
by a range of charities).
In my spare time I gave a masterclass at Utrecht, where I also gave a public lecture (based on the
EMBES data) showing to my satisfaction that claims that multiculturalism has failed in Britain are
very wide of the mark. I am also continuing my work on the DWP’s Ethnic Minority Advisory
Group where we continue to press for evidence-based policies that might help achieve a greater
degree of equality of opportunity for ethnic minorities in Britain.
An article which two of my former students had drafted with me, based on our Oxford Admissions
Study, was discussed in the House of Commons.
Jonathan Gershuny
Jonathan Gershuny’s research is focussed on the various activities of the Centre for Time Use
Research (CTUR), which he directs. Its work, funded by a “Large Grant” from the ESRC, covers
both methods of time use data collection and analysis, as well as substantive time use issues. The
CTUR continues its stewardship of the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS), which now
includes more than 60 harmonised national studies, from 20 countries, covering the last 50 years.
More than a dozen new studies have been added to the database this year, as well as new specialised
files on ethnicity and children. The MTUS project is led by Kimberly Fisher, who has also worked
with the International Association of Feminist Economists to set up a series of workshops on time
use data collection and analysis for the national statistics institutes of developing economies; the
first of these was held in Beijing in June, a second is planned for New Delhi next year.
The CTUR also contributes innovative data collection methodologies. It has currently in the field
(together with a commercial partner) a GPS and Internet based diary collection exercise, designed
in Oxford, and scheduled to produce nearly 2000 diary-days of data for analysis by the end of the
year. Gershuny has produced a report on “Time-Use Surveys and the Measurement of National
Well-Being” for the Office of National Statistics, and several methodological papers, on deriving
estimates of individuals’ long-term time use patterns from short (day-long) diaries, and on the
comparison of diary- and questionnaire-based time-use estimates.
A paper published this year in Sociology by Kan, Sullivan and Gershuny uses the MTUS to identify
national regime differences in the male/female division of unpaid domestic work (one of around 40
MTUS-based publications in peer-reviewed journals this year). Together with Sullivan, Gershuny
is now working on the analysis of all work in households, considering evidence on paid and unpaid
labour bought-in from outside the household, as well as contributions (and additional burdens)
from children and older household members. A paper with Almudena Sanz and others including
Gershuny, using diary sequence data to estimate leisure quality, has been accepted for publication
by Demography.
The annual conference of the International Association for Time Use Research, with more than 180
participants from around 50 countries, and 150 papers delivered over a three day period, and
various other associated workshops and meetings, was organised by the CTUR in St Catherine’s
College and the Manor Road Building at the start of August. It received substantial press coverage,
and has, among other outcomes, facilitated agreement for inclusion of a number of new national
contributions to the MTUS.
Colin Mills (Faculty Fellow)
During 2010-11 I have been on sabbatical leave. From September until the start of April I was,
through the generosity of Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Blossfeld, a guest researcher of the Nationales
Bildungspanel, Otto-Friederichs-Univerität, Bamberg. This was the perfect environment in which
to make progress with several of my research projects.
While there I worked with Dr Ursula Henz on two papers – one on work-life balance the other on
trends in assortative mating in Great Britain both of which are currently under consideration at
journals. I also started working on a small project about social stratification the Britain during the
inter-war period. I presented early results from this project – on class differences in secondary
school attendance an on the apparent consequences of military service on occupational attainment at seminars in Bamberg and a the April 2011 meeting of the ISA RC28 at the University of Essex.
My work on assortative mating and inter-war stratification were linked – at least at the
methodological level, by a need to clear up some outstanding difficulties in the coding of
occupational data of the categories of the Hall-Jones scale. Barring the discovery of hitherto
unknown sources some of the difficulties will in all likelihood remain unsolvable. Others, however
turned out to be more tractable once one looks in more detail at how the categories of the scheme
have in fact been applied. Detailed examination of codes and coding procedures revealed that some
apparent anomalies were the result of misunderstandings or simple coding errors.
Since returning to Britain I have also been making progress on a paper that examines social class
mobility trends over the last 60 years in the UK using what I believe to be the largest amount of
consistently coded data that has ever been brought to bear on the issue. Once finished we should
know, beyond reasonable doubt, what the full range of extant data allow us to say. It will be
interesting to find out whether there is anyone who wants to listen.
Christiaan Monden
This was my first full academic year in Oxford. On the research side, I continued to work on the
family and health nexus in developing countries with Jeroen Smits. We worked on various issues
concerning child mortality, gender, height, female education and partner formation. I presented
some of this work at the annual meeting of the Population Association of American (PAA) in
Washington and at the Nuffield Sociology Seminar. We submitted papers on the gender bias in
under-five mortality and on union formation.
Another continuing strand of work concerns the association between health and divorce (in
European countries). I presented work on this in Nijmegen, Manchester and again at the PAA in
Washington and I finally found some time to submit a paper on the heterogeneity of divorce effects.
I’m starting a new project in this strand with Pekka Martikainen (Helsinki) using Finnish registry
data that allows us to observe both (ex-)spouses before and after divorce.
This year I taught one course that I did last year as well (Introduction to Sociology in Hillary Term)
and two papers that were new to me: Sociology of Industrial Societies and the optional paper on
Sociology of the Family. The latter was taught in tutorial setting, which was a new and very
positive experience. I supervised four MSc students and one DPhil student.
On the admin side, it was interesting, although more time-consuming than expected, to be involved
in the graduate admissions and chairing the Examiners for the Sociology Department. In Hillary
Term, I organized the Nuffield Sociology Seminar. Outside Oxford, I coordinate the Family
sessions at the 2011 annual meeting of the British Society of Population Studies.
Publications:
(with Josja Rokven) ‘Scheiding altijd schadelijk voor welbevinden? [Is divorce always harmful for
well-being?]’ Demos, 27, 2, 4-6.
(with Matthijs Kalmijn) ‘Poverty and union formation among never-married single mothers in the
Netherlands, 1989-2005’ Population Studies, 64, 3, 263-274.
(with Jornt Mandemakers and Matthijs Kalmijn) ‘Are the effects of divorce on psychological
distress modified by family background?’ Advances in Life Course Research, 15, 1, 27-40.
Wojtek Przepiorka (John Fell Fund Research Fellow in Experimental Social Sciences)
My research is predominantly experimental and circles around two main topics. The first topic is
concerned with how observable behaviour in social interactions generates information about
unobservable but relevant traits of the interacting agents. Two studies investigate in how far
altruistic acts can be a signal of trustworthiness. The first study focuses on the benefits donors to
charity receive in social exchange (with S. Fehrler, University of Zurich, submitted to Evolution
and Human Behavior) and the second study explores to what extent donors to charity are selected
more frequently as interaction partners in social exchange (with SF, in preparation). A third study
investigates in how far fairness manifested naturally can be a better signal of trustworthiness than
fairness potentially motivated by strategic reasons (with D. Gambetta, first draft). Finally, a small
grant that I received from the John Fell Fund (£7,350) will allow me to conduct two further studies.
Both studies will explore in how far altruistic punishment can be conceived as a signal of
cooperative intent. All these studies address the broader question of how social preferences could
have evolved in humans. So far the results are very encouraging and suggest that other-regarding
behaviour caries information that allows discriminating cooperative and non-cooperative types in
human social interactions.
The other main topic that motivates my research is social norms. Two studies investigate in how far
agent heterogeneity facilitates the production of a public good (with A. Diekmann, ETH Zurich,
first draft) and social norm enforcement (with AD, in preparation). Two other studies investigate
how normative feedback can promote cooperation in a common-pool resource setting (with AD,
first draft) and in a real-world setting with regard to subjects’ energy consumption (with M.
Baeriswyl, ETH Zurich). One study investigates how subjects attribute responsibility for and
sanction collective decision outcomes (with R. Duch and R. Stevenson, Rice University, in
preparation). Finally, one study investigates how ignorance about other agents’ violations of social
norms can promote norm compliance (with AD and H. Rauhut, ETH Zurich, submitted to Social
Forces).
Silke Schneider
In 2010/11, I have worked on four different papers relating to education. The first one is a paper coauthored with my Equalsoc team to Social Science Research on the harmonisation of measures of
educational attainment for comparative research using labour force survey data. It has been
conditionally accepted. The second one was a new paper, co-authored with Nicole Tieben at MZES
(University of Mannheim), entitled "A healthy sorting machine? Social inequality in the transition
to upper secondary education in Germany" (now published). I have also written a topic overview on
educational attainment for the Survey Question Bank at the UK data archive. The fourth paper
summarises a substantial amount of conceptual and methodological work I have performed over the
last few years. It is entitled "The International Standard Classification of Education 2011 and its
application in cross-national surveys" and will be reworked over the next few months.
This last piece closely relates to consulting work I have performed for the UNESCO Institute for
Statistics (as member of the Technical Advisory Panel, TAP, developing ISCED 2011) and the
European Social Survey (ESS) Central Co-ordinating Team. For the ESS, I have consulted
with national coordinators in all ESS round 5 countries (~30) to improve the country-specific
educational attainment measures and improve the consistency of bridging country-specific
educational attainment categories into international ones, anticipating ISCED 2011. The ESS will
thus be the first data source providing data compatible with ISCED 2011.
I have also attended and presented posters and papers a number of conferences in the last year: the
inaugural conference of the Society for Life-Course and Longitudinal Studies (SLLS), the 100th
anniversary conference of the German Sociological Association (DGS), and the RC28 spring
meeting in Essex. I have also been invited to an ESS national coordinator's meeting, the ESS SocioEconomic Working Group, a Eurostat workshop on the implementation of ISCED 2011 in EU
statistics, the spring meeting of the Social Outcomes of Learning Network of the OECD group on
Indicators of National Education Systems, and attended two ISCED TAP meetings. As usual, all
these conferences and meetings have generated more ideas for future research than I will have time
to realise.
I have left Oxford at the end of June 2011. I already miss the flexibility and freedom I enjoyed
during my time there. In my new role as scientific coordinator of the GESIS (former ZUMA,
Mannheim) Summer School in Survey Methodology, which will take place for the first time in
August 2012, I have real responsibilities and success will be visible in very manifest outcomes,
which will probably be both blessing and curse. I hope to stay in touch and come back to visit.
Please get in touch also: my new work email address is [email protected].
Oriel Sullivan (Research Reader, Centre for Time Use Research)
The Centre for Time Use Research continues to develop, both in terms of data provision services
and in academic prominence. Three articles of mine have appeared over the past academic year in
leading journals, one joint-authored with colleagues from the CTUR, Professor Jonathan Gershuny
and Dr Man-Yee Kan. One of my sole-authored articles (on current debates around change in the
gender division of labour) was specially featured in an issue of the Journal of Family Theory and
Review, which included comments on the article from three leading US academics followed by a
response from me. My research has continued to attract significant media attention, generating this
year 12 press articles, including a report in the Daily Telegraph, and requests for information
from senior journalists at The Guardian and Times Magazine.
PUBLICATIONS BY MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT
Biggs, M (with S Knauss) ‘Explaining Membership in the British National Party: A Multilevel
Analysis of Contact and Threat’, European Sociological Review, forthcoming
Biggs, M (with K T Andrews) ‘From Protest to Organization: The Impact of the 1960 Sit-Ins on
Movement Organizations in the American South’, The Diffusion of Social Movements: Actors,
Frames, and Political Effects, ed. Rebecca Kolins Givan, Sarah A. Soule, and Kenneth M. Roberts,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 187-203
Biggs, M (2010) ‘Storm in a Teacup? A Comment on Ullmann-Margalit’, Norms and Values: The
Role of Social Norms as Instruments of Value Realisation, ed. Michael Baurmann, Geoffrey
Brennan, Bob Goodin, and Nicholas Southwood, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, pp.
143-48
Chan, TW (with Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund, Arne Kristian Aas and Øyvind Wiborg), ‘Social status
in Norway’ forthcoming in European Sociological Review
Chan, TW (2011) (with Anita Koo), Parenting style and youth outcomes in the UK, European
Sociological Review, 27:385--399.
Chan, TW (2010) Social Status and Cultural Consumption, Cambridge University Press
Evans, G (with Mark Pickup) ‘Reversing the causal arrow: The political conditioning
ofeconomicperceptions in the 2000-2004 US Presidential election cycle’, The Journal of Politics, 72: 123651, 2010.
Evans, G (with Pia Horvat) Age, inequality and reactions to marketization in post-communist
Central and Eastern Europe, European Sociological Review, 2011, 27(5).
Evans, G (with James Tilley) ‘The Emerging Electoral Supremacy of ‘Hard Line’ Parties in
Northern Ireland: The Role of Political Generations. European Journal of Political Research,
50(5):583-608, 2011.
Evans, G ‘Models, Measures and Mechanisms: An agenda for progress in cleavage research’ in
Zsolt Enyedi and Kevin Deegan-Krause, eds., The Structure of Political Competition in
Western Europe, London: Routledge, 220-233, 2011.
Evans, G ‘Class and Voting’. Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ritzer, George (ed). Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing, Online at www.sociologyencyclopedia.com, 2011.
Evans, G (with James Tilley). ‘Private Schools and Public Divisions: The influence of private
schooling on social attitudes and political choices’ British Social Attitudes, 28th Report, 2011.
De Graaf, N National Religious Context and Volunteering: More Rigorous Tests Supporting the
Association. American Sociological Review. 75: 179-184. 2010. (With Stijn Ruiter)
De Graaf, N Changing Effects of Family Background on Transitions to Secondary Education in the
Netherlands: Consequences of Educational Expansion and Reform. Research in Social
Stratification and Mobility. 28: 77-90. 2010. (With Nicole Tieben and Paul De Graaf)
De Graaf, N How Fair is the Route to the Top: Perceptions of Social Mobility. In: A. Park, J.
Curtice, E. Clery and C. Bryson (Eds.) British Social Attitudes: the 27th Report. London: Sage. Pp.
29-50. 2010. (With Anthonyy Heath and Yaojun Li).
De Graaf, N Maatschappelijk problemen: beschrijvingen en verklaringen (Social Problems:
descriptions and explanations). Amsterdam: Boom (415 pages). 2010. Second revised and
fourth print. (With Willem Wolters)
De Graaf, N Forthcoming Political Choice Matters: Explaining the strength of class and religious
cleavages in cross-national perspective. (Edited with Geoff Evans)
De Graaf, N Forthcoming Class voting, social changes and political changes in the Netherlands
1971-2006. Electoral Studies. (With Giedo Jansen and Ariana Need)
De Graaf, N Forthcoming Development of the Leave Risk Assessment in a sample of Dutch
Forensic Psychiatric Patients. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health. (With Ed Hilterman
and Martien Philipse)
De Graaf, N Forthcoming Does Duration of Deregulated Religious Markets affect Church
Attendance? Evidence from 26 religious markets in Europe and North America between 1981 and
2006. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. (with Olav Aarts, Manfred Te Grotenhuis, and
Ariana Need)
De Graaf, N Forthcoming When Does the Apple Fall from the Three? Static versus Dynamic
Theories Predicting Intergenerational Transmission of Crime. Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
(with Marieke van de Rakt, Stijn Ruiter and Paul Nieuwbeerta
De Graaf, N Forthcoming Philosophies of Life and Health Care Utilization in the Netherlands
(Levensfilosofie en zorggebruik in Nederland). Mens & Maatschappij. (with Anna Marangos and
Peter Groenewegen)
Gambetta, D (2010) “Do strong family ties inhibit trust?”, Journal of Economic Behavior and
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