While gender inequalities exist in nearly all countries of the world, there is a huge variation across countries. Nordic countries are doing relatively well, with a gender gap in labour participation of approximately 4% compared to 12% on average in OECD countri...
Several African feminists have also questioned "western" concepts such as gender and their relevance to the African context. Womanhooda set of socially defined attributes appropriate for womenholds different meanings depending on the context in which it is defined. Drawing on decolonial African feminist...
The sociology of emotions, specifically with regard to romantic (i.e., non-platonic) love and its link to marriage, has generated particular attention from social theorists, many of whom view love as a prerequisite for marriage (Jackson 1993). This idea is especially prevalent in modern Western...
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literature in the sociology of knowledge and expertise has problematized this definition to include forms of non-institutional or specialized knowledge and account for new forms of knowledge production and foregrounded the political role that attributions of expertise and authority have in decision-making...
—doing so is how we "fit in" and achieve a sense of belonging. Conversely, those of us who either can't or choose not to embrace and express the norms of reference groups that are expected of us might be seen as outcasts, criminals, or in other cases, revolutionaries or trendsetters...
Bernstein’s (1999) description of knowledge structures has its origins in his critical account of educational sociology (Bernstein,1975). Bernstein (1999) begins with a broad distinction between everyday, experientialdiscourse(what Bernstein termed ‘horizontal discourse’), and official or ‘schooled’...
System or institutional trust is of great interest in sociology, economics, and business. To cite two very different examples, system trust plays a key role in business-to-consumer commerce, and can be fostered through specific action by vendors (Pennington et al., 2003); somewhat differently,...
But in politics, at least recently, it seems like tolerance for misleading narratives is higher or even accepting and intentional. Borrowed from sociology, the old maxim still applies: “things are not always what they seem.” My fear is that many people do not know what’s under the surfac...
That alone is telling. In a society marked byindividualism, or the notion that we are separate rather thaninterdependent, we might focus more on how to be a good person or on our interpersonal relationships, but seldom on how to be a good member of the larger whole. Even as a sociologist...