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 approxi
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...
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,...
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...
Interactional sociolinguistics Built on the work of Erving Goffman (1964, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1986) in Sociology and John Gum- perz (Gumperz 1982, 1999) in anthropology and linguistics, interactional sociolinguistics (IS) has evolved into an approach to discourse analysis that 'attempts to "bridge...
I don’t consider myself a world expert in sociology, abnormal psychology or criminal justice. Nor am I sworn to the political right or left. Given the conversation at hand, all of that might be an advantage in my case. At the very least, I have no problem “opening a can” on the...