Department of Sociology University of Oxford Annual report Academic year 2006-2007

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT Professor Anthony F Heath, FBA (Professor of Sociology and Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College)

DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION Katharine Silk (Administrator) Leema Erben (Finance Officer) Anne Millard (Post Graduate Officer) Jane Greig (Administrative Assistant) Carole Newbigging (Administrator, Oxford Institute of Ageing) Debbie Alder (Departmental Secretary & PA to Prof Harper), Oxford Institute of Ageing) Anja Lenniger (Programme Administrator, Oxford Institute of Ageing)

MEMBERS Isabella Aboderin (Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing) Dr Michael Biggs (University Lecturer in Sociology, Fellow of St Cross College) Dr Vikki Boliver (Nuffield Foundation Fellow, Research Fellow of Nuffield College) Dr John Carlarne (Exlegi) Dr Tak Wing Chan (University Lecturer in Sociology, Fellow of New College) Prof Bleddyn Davies (Professorial Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing) Dr Romola Davenport (James Martin Research Fellow) Dr Muriel Egerton (Senior Research Fellow, CTUR) Dr Gabriella Elgenius (Research Fellow) Prof Geoffrey Evans (Official Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College) Dr Kimberly Fisher (Research Fellow, CTUR) Dr Steve Fisher (University Lecturer in Political Sociology, Fellow of Trinity College) Prof Duncan Gallie, FBA (Official Fellow of Nuffield College) Prof Diego Gambetta, FBA (Official Fellow of Nuffield College) Prof Jonathan Gershuny, FBA (Director of Graduate Studies, Fellow of St Hugh’s College) Dr. John Goldthorpe, FBA (Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College) Prof A H Halsey, FBA (Emeritus Professor, Nuffield College) Dr Heather Hamill (University Lecturer in Sociology, Fellow of St Cross College) Prof Sarah Harper (Director, Oxford Institute of Ageing) Andreas Hoff (James Martin Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing) Jaco Hoffman (AFRAN Visitor, Oxford Institute of Ageing)

Kenneth Howse (HSBC Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing) Dr Michelle Jackson (University Lecturer, Research Fellow of Nuffield College) Dr Man-Yee Kan (Research Fellow, CTUR) Martin Karlsson (HSBC Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing) Hafiz Khan (HSBC Research Fellow – Demography, Oxford Institute of Ageing) Dr Philip Kreager, Senior Research Fellow Jenny LaFontaine (James Martin Research Officer, Oxford Institute of Ageing) Dr George Leeson (Deputy Director and HSBC Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing) Robin Mann (Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing) Sue Marcus (Research Officer, Oxford Institute of Ageing) Ms Jean Martin AcSS (Senior Research Fellow) Mr Colin Mills (University Lecturer, Fellow of Nuffield College) Dr Tiziana Nazio (Career Development Fellow, Research Fellow of Nuffield College) Alis Oancea (Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing) Pavel Ovseiko (Research Assistant, Oxford Institute of Ageing) Dr Valeria Pizzini-Gambetta (Research Fellow) Derek Ross (Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing) Mr Atulya Saxena, (Research Officer) Dr Almudena Sevilla Sanz ( Research Fellow, CTUR) Prof Federico Varese (Prof of Criminology, Official Fellow of Linacre College, Director, Exlegi)

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Dr. David Barron (Said Business School, Fellow of Jesus College) Dr Richard Breen (Fellow of Nuffield College) Dr. David Coleman (University Reader in Demography, Fellow of St John's College) Prof Ray Fitzpatrick (University Lecturer in Medical Sociology, Fellow of Nuffield College) Dr. Elizabeth Frazer (Fellow of New College) Dr Carolyn Hoyle (University Lecturer in Criminology, Fellow of Green College)

Mr Alan Hudson (Director of Studies in Social and Political Science, OUDCE and Fellow of Kellogg College) Dr. Mansur Lalljee (University Lecturer in Psychology, Fellow of Jesus College) Mr. Kenneth Macdonald (University Lecturer in Applied Social Studies, Fellow of Nuffield College) Dr Barnaby Marsh (JRF, New College) Dr. Doreen McBarnet (Reader in Socio-Legal Studies, CSLS) Prof Avner Offer, FBA (Chichele Professor of Economic History, Fellow of All Souls College) Jane Roberts (Data Services Officer, Nuffield College Sociology Group) Dr. Rebecca Surender (Departmental Lecturer, DSPSW) Dr Adam Swift (Fellow of Balliol College) Dr James Tilley (University Lecturer in Quantitative Political Science, Tutorial Fellow of Jesus College) Prof Geoffrey Walford (Professor of Education Policy, Fellow of Green College)

OFFICERS Head of Department

Anthony Heath

Director of Graduate Studies

Jonathan Gershuny

M Sc/M Phil Course Director

Colin Mills

Editor of Working Paper Series

Tak Wing Chan

Chairman of Examiners

Steve Fisher

VISITING SCHOLARS Professor Robert Mare Dr Judith Setzer Dr Oriel Sullivan Dr Alberto Alvarez de Sotomayor Dr Aagoth Storvik Dr Sophie Duchesne Mariana Losada Marijn van Klingeren Dr Jean-Benoit Pilet Marieke Voorpostel

GRADUATING STUDENTS MSc Altinas, Evrim (Kellogg) Cross-National Analysis of the Effects of Welfare Regimes on Time Use Patterns Bajaj, Gunita (Kellogg) Issues concerning the measurement of time poverty: the case of India Chen, Yunson (Kellogg) Getting a Job in China Today: Identifying Typology of Tie Strength with Latent Class Analysis Corey, Michael (St Hugh’s) Specialization or gender Roles: How Different Models Interpret the Division of Household Labor Fuhr, Christina (St Catherine’s) Understanding Western Transnational Terrorism Gardiner, John (Woolfson) Make Poverty History: Which Factors Determine Whether an Individual Participates in a Social Movement? Gessnew, Shannon (St Cross) Examining Female Employmnent Patterns Post-Childbirth: the Case for Preference Theory Jun, Jiweon (St Cross) The Determinants of Voluntry/Involuntary Early Retirement in Korea Konieczna, Anna (St Hilda’s) Predictors of electoral behaviour: Pllish Sejm elections 1997 and 2001 Lam, Heung Wan (St Cross) Gender Role Attitudes and Work-Life Imbalance in the United Kingdom Matsuo, Aya (St Hugh’s) Variations in the occupational attainment of ethnic minority women in the UK labour market McLean, Matthew (Lincoln) Home Truths: alignment in political opinion amoung UK couples, 1993-1997 Mehran, Weeda (St Hilda’s) Educational Disparity in Afghanistan: What Factors Affect School Enrolment? Ogg, Thomas (Nuffield) School, effects, aptitude testing, and undergraduate admissions: a comparison of the predictive validity of aptitude testing and secondary school grades Rosen, Guri (Wadham) Political representation in the European Union Sperber, Nathan (Nuffield) Three Million Treotskyists: The Rise of the New Extreme Left in France in the 2002 Presidential Election Umbres, Radu (New) Social Fluidity in Romania Vukov, Visnja (St Cross) The Determinants of Attitudes towrds EU Accession in Croatia

Williams, Mark (Nuffield) The Workplace Determinants of Job Quality: A multilevel analysis Zhang, Yu (Nuffield) Changes of Young British Women's Gender-Role Attitudes, 1991-2003

MPhil Dondukov, Dorzhi (St Anthony’s) Omkar, Krishna (Merton) Palanca, Clinton (Green) Zauner, Michaela (St Cross)

MPhil Qualifying Test Richardson, Lindsey (St Anthony’s)

DPhil completed Constantinescu, Raz (St Catz, [email protected]) ‘Academic Attainment and Social Mobility Among Romanian Rroma’ (supervised by Anthony Heath) Gustafsson, Paer (St Cross, paer.gustafsson stx.ox.ac.uk) ‘Formal and Informal Dispute Resolution in the Contemporary Russian Economy’ (supervised by Federico Varese) Koo, Anita (St Antony's, [email protected]) ‘Social Inequality and Differential Educational Choice’ (supervised by Tak Wing Chan) Kotecha, Sangna (Nuffield, [email protected]) ‘Unfamiliar with Higher Education? How Students from Non-traditional Backgrounds Make Their Choices’ (supervised by Anthony Heath) Lin, Ping (Oriel, [email protected]) ‘Migration from Developed Countries to Developing Countries: A Case Study on the Taiwanese in Shanghai City, China’ (supervised by Anthony Heath) Portocarrero, Felipe (St Antony's, [email protected]) ‘Wealth and Philanthropy. The Economic Elite in Peru, 1916-1960’ (supervised by Robert Thorpe) Shapira (nee Shaginian), Marina (Nuffield, [email protected]) ‘The Determinants of Socio-Economic Differences Among Ethnic Groups in an Immigrant Absorbing Society: Israel 1972-2000’ (supervised by Anthony Heath)

Smith, Alison (Nuffield, [email protected]) ‘When Did You Last See Your Father? European Fathers and the Time They Spend Looking After Children’ (supervised by Richard Breen) Stahlkopf, Christina (St Cross, [email protected]) ‘Tensions Within the 'New' Youth Justice System’ (supervised by Carolyn Hoyle) Steiber, Nadia (Nuffield, [email protected]) ‘Explaining the Formation and Change of Working Time Preferences in Britain, Germany and Sweden: A Longitudinal Analysis’ (supervised by Duncan Gallie) Tan, Jacinta (Nuffield, [email protected]) ‘Competence and Treatment Decision-Making in Anorexia Nervosa’ (supervised by Raymond Fitzpatrick and Ronald Hope) Uberoi, Varun (Wolfson, [email protected]) ‘Can Britishness Act as a Source of Community Cohesion in Britain?’ (supervised by Denis Galligan) Vaid, Divya (Nuffield, [email protected]) ‘Social Mobility of Women in India’ (supervised by Anthony Heath)

DPhil Ali, Irum Shehreen (St Hilda’s, [email protected]) ‘Modernization Theory and Bangladesh: Transitioning Value Orientations?’ (supervised by Steve Fisher) Ata-Ullah, Najm-Ul-Sahr (St Hilda’s, [email protected]) ‘Modernization Theory and Bangladesh: Transitioning Value Orientations?’ (supervised by Anthony Heath) de Barros, Celso (LMH, [email protected]) ‘Reform Paths and the Growth of Inequality in Post-Socialism’ (supervised by Tak Wing Chan) Bessudnov, Alexey (St Antony's, [email protected]) ‘Class, status and consumption in post-Soviet Russia’ (supervised by Colin Mills) Cebolla Boada, Hector (Nuffield, [email protected]) ‘A Study on Ethnic Inequalities in Education: The Case of France’ (supervised by Anthony Heath)

Demireva, Neli (St John's, neli.demireva sjc.ox.ac.uk ) ‘Examining the differential job search methods of ethnic groups in the U.K., Germany and U.S. – a comparative approach’ (supervised by Colin Mills) De Rooij, Eline (Nuffield, [email protected]) When Your Politics Becomes My Politics: A Cross-National Comparison of the Political Participation of Immigrant Groups (supervised by Steve Fisher) Ford, Robert (Nuffield, robert.ford nuffield.ox.ac.uk) ‘Explorations of White Attitudes Towards Immigrants and Minorities in Britain’ (supervised by Steve Fisher) Forestan, Elisa (Trinity, [email protected]) From compulsory school to university: the role of social ties in school decisionmaking processes in the UK. (supervised by Anthony Heath) Glouharova, Siana (Brasenose, [email protected]) ‘National Identity, Ethnicity, Religion and Voting Behaviour in Bulgaria from a Comparative Perspective’ (supervised by Steve Fisher) Gonzalez Bailon, Sandra (Nuffield, sandra.gonzalezbailon nuffield.ox.ac.uk) ‘Mapping Civil Societies: A Network Analysis of the Emerging Forms of Social Capital on the Web’ (supervised by Michael Biggs) Grasso, Maria (Nuffield, [email protected]) ‘Political Involvement in Western Europe’ (supervised by Steve Fisher) Hannan, Carmel (Nuffield, [email protected]) ‘The Changing Nature of Family Formation in Ireland 1920 to 2000’ (supervised by Richard Breen) Hill, Declan (Green, [email protected]) ‘Greed and Glory: Match Fixing in Professional Football’ (supervised by Diego Gambetta) Hobbs, Samuel (Trinity, [email protected]) ‘The physical environment, external interactions and informal workplace networks’ (supervised by Peter Hedstrom) Hoare, George (Nuffield, [email protected]) The Changing Meaning of the Left: Political Attitudes and Self-Identifications (supervised by Michael Biggs) Hoffman, Jacobus (St Anthony’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)

Ip, Chung-Yan (Nuffield, [email protected]) ‘Is Career Dead? Investigating the Work Life of Professionals and Managers in Britain’ (supervised by Anthony Heath) 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) Kilpi, Elina (St Anthony’s, [email protected]) Education of Children from Immigrant Backgrounds in Finland (supervised by Anthony Heath) Kim, Jee Hun (Hertford, jeehun.kim hertford.ox.ac.uk) ‘Managing Intergenerational Family Obligations in Transnational Contexts: Korean Professional Families in Singapore’ (supervised by Anthony Heath) Koo, Chul Hoi (Wolfson, chul.koo wolfson.ox.ac.uk.) ‘Income Inequality in Later Life’ (supervised by Sarah Harper) Lachtman, Shane (St Cross, shane.lachtman stx.ox.ac.uk) ‘Then What? The Occupational Destinations of Ethnic Minorities with Elite Education, Athletic Experience or Both in Britain, Israel and the United State’ (supervised by Anthony Heath) Laurence, James (St John’s, [email protected]) Community disadvantage...there's more to it than you think... really there is. (supervised by Anthony Heath Laurie, Charles (Green, charles.laurie green.ox.ac.uk) ‘Media and Cloning’ (supervised by Heather Hamill) Lee, Hyun Sun (St Catz, [email protected]) ‘Why Do They Insist 'Woori-shiki kaihou' (Our Mode of Care)?: A Case Study of the Zainichi Korean Organisation for Social Welfare’ (supervised by Anthony Heath and Richard Goodman) Lessard-Phillips, Laurence (Nuffield, laurence.lessard-phillips nuffield.ox.ac.uk) Ethnic Educational Inequalities amongst the Second Generation in Four Receiving Societies (supervised by Anthony Heath) 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 Richard Breen)

Liu, Ka-Yuet (Nuffield, ka-yuet.liu nuffield.ox.ac.uk) ‘Pathways to Suicidal Behaviour: A Mechanism-Based Approach’ (supervised by Peter Hedström) Lau, Pui-Yan (Flora) (St Cross, pui-yan:stx.ox.ac.uk) ‘Defining Social Capital Indicators in the Workplace: Towards a Qualitative Approach’ (supervised by Anthony Heath and Heather Hamill) Mamidi, Pavan (Nuffield, [email protected]) Signalling Trust, and Deception in Caste Systems (supervised by Diego Gambetta) 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) Muttarak, Raya (St Antony's, [email protected]) ‘Interethnic Unions in Britain: Considering Intermarried Couples and Multiethnic Children’ (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) Pattaro, Serena (Nuffield, [email protected]) ‘The Impact of Uncertainty of Women's Labour Market Careers on the Timing of their Fertility Decisions: A Comparative Analysis of Individual and Institutional Characteristics’ (supervised by Richard Breen) Pesquera Menendez, Patricia (Nuffield, [email protected] Learning within the family. Intergenerational transmission of political attitudes (supervised by Richard Breen) Phakathi, Timothy (Green, timothy.phakathi green.ox.ac.uk) Workplace Transformation and the Working Lives of Mineworkers in the Postapartheid South African Gold Mining Industry (supervised by Colin Mills) Reed, John (St Antony's, [email protected]) ‘Origins, 'Tracks' and Destinations: A Life Course Approach to Mechanisms in Social Mobility’ (supervised by Colin Mills) de Rooij, Eline Adriana (Nuffield, eline.derooij nuffield.ox.ac.uk) ‘When Your Politics Becomes My Politics: A Cross-National Comparison of the Political Participation of Immigrant Groups’ (supervised by Steve Fisher)

Ruedin, Didier (Wolfson, didier.ruedin wolfson.ox.ac.uk) Symbolic and Ideological Representation in National Parliaments (supervised by Steve Fisher) Salazar, Leire (Nuffield, [email protected]) ‘Women's Educational Expansion: Effects of Changes in Female Participation in the Labour Market and Household Formation on Inter-Household Earnings Inequality’ (supervised by Richard Breen) Sarawgi, Shreya (St Hilda’s, [email protected]) Ethnicicty and Electoral Behaviour in India (supervised by Steve Fisher) Schneider, Silke (Nuffield, silke.schneider nuffield.ox.ac.uk) Social inequalities in education from a cross-national comparative perspective (supervised by Anthony Heath) Seong, Moon-Ju (Oriel, [email protected]) ‘Women and Work in South Korea’ (supervised by Tak Wing Chan) Sinha, Samir (New, [email protected]) ‘The Sociology of Interprofessional Relations: A Case Study of English Care Trusts’ (supervised by Sarah Harper) So, Ka Lok Carol (Wolfson, carol.so wolfson.ox.ac.uk) ‘Networking Women Police Officers: Transformation of Gendered Experiences in the Police Station’ (supervised by Heather Hamill) Spreckelsen, Thees (Nuffield, [email protected]) “For King and Country” – The inclusive effects of national identity, measurement and analysis (supervised by Anthony Heath) Starbuck, Mark (Green, [email protected]) ‘A Comparative Study of Tipping Practices and Attitudes’ (supervised by Diego Gambetta) Stefansson, Kolbeinn, (St Cross, [email protected]) ‘Pushing the Stone: Aspirations, Adaptation and Satisfaction’ (supervised by Colin Mills) Sutherland, Alex (Nuffield, [email protected]) ‘Adolescent substance use’ (supervised by Heather Hamill) Techanuvat, Chinnawut (St Antony's, chinnawut.techanuvat sant.ox.ac.uk) ‘Educational Opportunities and Inequality in Transitional Thailand’ (supervised by Anthony Heath)

Tzvetkova, Marina (Nuffield, marina.tzvetkova nuffield.ox.ac.uk) ‘Wrestling for Supremacy: The Evolution of Extra-Legal Protection in Bulgaria’ (supervised by Diego Gambetta) Yang, Jing (Lady Margaret Hall, [email protected]) ‘The Rise of the "Middle Class" and Private Entrepreneurs in China at the Dawn of the 21st Century’ (supervised by Colin Mills and Tak Wing Chan) 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) Yogev, Tamar (Nuffield, tamar.yogev nuffield ox.ac.uk.) "Drawing a Fair Picture: A Study of the Contemporary Visual Art Market" (supervised by Peter Hedström) Zani, Agnes (Wolfson, [email protected]) ‘The Impact of Key Socio-Cultural Factors on Academic Attainment Among Form Four Students in Kenya: A Gender Perspective’ (supervised by Anthony Heath) Zimdars, Anna (New, anna.zimdars new.ox.ac.uk) ‘Challenges to Meritocracy? A Study of the Social Mechanisms in Student Selection and Progression at the University of Oxford’ (supervised by Anthony Heath) Zou, Min (Nuffield, min.zou nuffield.ox.ac.uk) ‘Work orientations and individual labour market participation: 1991-2003’ (supervised by Colin Mills)

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S REPORT The Department welcomed Prof Jonathan Gershuny FBA to our second established chair of Sociology. He brings with him his Centre for Time Use Research, which includes Dr Man Yee Kan, one of our former students. We are delighted to have ‘J’ and his team who will be a great asset to the Department. We also welcomed this year Jane Greig and Leema Erben who provide vital support roes for us. Our doctoral students had a particularly successful year. Rob Ford and Anna Zimdars both won postdoctoral fellowships at Manchester University. Gabriella Elgenius won a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship which she will be holding in the Department. Maria Sobolewska won a Nuffield Prize Research Fellowship, Sandra Gonzalez Bailon won an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship and Divya Vain won a postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale. Vikki Boliver spent the year at Harvard working with Mary Waters on a fellowship funded by the Nuffield Foundation.

We said goodbye to Edmund Chattoe (who is taking up a University Lectureship at Leicester), Matthew Bond (who is taking up a University Lectureship at Kent) and to Cath Rothon (who is moving to a 5-year MRC Fellowship at Queen Mary). Richard Breen has also left his Official Fellowship at Nuffield in order to take up a Chair at Yale. We are very sorry to lose them but congratulate them all on their successes. On the research front we have obtained a new grant from the Nuffield Foundation to study affirmative action programme in Northern Ireland. This will be an interdisciplinary study involving Christopher McCrudden (the leading Human Rights lawyer), Heather Hamill and Anthony Heath. Raya Muttarak will also be joining the team as the Research Fellow.

CREST REPORT The main activity this year has been work on our ESRC-funded project on the decline of traditional identities. Our first publication from this study, a chapter in the annual British social Attitudes Report, ‘who do we think we are?’ received considerable attention in the media and there was even an item on the main BBC TV news programme quoting the results from our study on changes over time in national identity. National identity was also the focus of work that we carried out for Lord Goldsmith’s Citizenship Report. While the connection between his recommendations and our research was not especially close, we were able to reassure him that ‘British identity is not in crisis’ and he emphasized this in his Report.

EXLEGI REPORT Extra-Legal Governance Institute (EXLEGI) Progress to Date In 2006, Diego Gambetta, Heather Hamill, and Federico Varese received a grant from the Fell Fund to establish an Institute devoted to Extra-Legal Governance. The aim of the project is the creation of a centre which will become a focal point and key resource for the study of the governance of economic activity under conditions in which legal protection is ineffective or absent. In 2006, a part time Research Officer, John Carlarne, was hired. Below, I detail some of the progress we have made in fulfilling this aim. Webpage: EXLEGI have now a web page: http://www.exlegi.ox.ac.uk/index.html The web page was created by JC. Rather than hiring a professional web designer, we did it inhouse. The site is meant as a hub for the key purpose of the Institute, namely to disseminate data and information on Extra-legal governance. The site is now quite ‘populated’ and is receiving approx 500 hits per day. JC has also compiled a list of people teaching courses in the field of EXLEGI and sent individual emails to each of them advertising the site. As a byproduct of this work, we have now a data base of scholars working in the field.

Social Science Library: We have been in extensive discussions with the SSL and the Bodleian Library regarding the move of a sizeable quantity of books (some 250) on topics related to extra legal governance and organized crime to the SSL. This is part of our plan to create a dedicated section of the library to EXLEGI topics. Most of the books have now been moved. Library of Congress: We have applied to the Library of Congress to create a heading dedicated to ‘extra-legal governance’. The application process was quite cumbersome, but things are now moving and we are hopeful we shall get the heading shortly. We believe the label will enhance the field in the long-run. Seminars and Conferences: We have been running a seminar series attracting between 15 and 20 people in the audience for the past year. Speakers included senior academics, junior scholars, advanced D.Phil students, journalists and practitioners. Some of the papers given are on webpage. We have also contributed to a conference on the informal economy in Africa, organized by Prof David Anderson. We plan to continue to collaborate with the africanists in the future. Presentations: We gave presentations on EXLEGI at the Court of Benefactors, SPIRE, and the ESRC Board. Data Sets: One of the key aims of EXLEGI is to create data sets in the field of extra legal governance (not an easy task). We have now digitized and we are ready to put online a dataset produced by Diego for his book The Sicilian Mafia. The data set is a digitized index of many official and judiciary documents from the period 1950-1993. It also contains short biographies of some 120 mafia members. Data Library: In consultation with Nuffield, we are now working on providing on our webpage a space for scholars (and students) to store and maintain their datasets that will then be available for further analysis. Viva Voce: This is the flag-ship data project of EXLEGI, the creation of a digital archive of confessions and memoirs by members of organized crime. We have now prepared an application to the Mellon Foundation for a pilot project, focusing only on non-copyrighted material from US courts. We have also a ‘business plan’ for the full-project, which would include several countries and promises to become an ongoing data collection enterprise. Journal: I am the chief editor (I used to be assistant editor), Diego is a member of the Editorial Board, and JC the editorial assistant of Global Crime, a refereed academic journal (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17440572.asp). Although the journal goes beyond EXLEGI, we direct research done by our students and collaborators to this journal. Several doctoral students and Oxford colleagues have contributed to the journal. Visiting Fellow: Our first visiting fellow (Hilary, 2007) was Dr Mark Galeotti of Keele University. Funding: We applied for the Leverhulme Research Leadership Award but our project was not selected by Oxford University. We have also approached the Andrew Mellon Foundation, but

they informed us that Vivavoce would not fit their plans. The next major EXLEGI applications we plan are: 1] The European Research Council. We understand that we can submit a project similar to the Leverhulme ‘failed’ application. 2] ESCR, e.g.: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/opportunities/current_funding_opportunities/largegrants2007.a spx?ComponentId=20903&SourcePageId=5964

3] James Martin 21st Century School.

Other Plans: We plan to host a symposium that will coincide with the publication of Diego Gambetta’s Crime and Signs and the English translation of Leopoldo Franchetti’s classic study of the Sicilian mafia (1876) in English. The latter symposium will also be the inaugural symposium of the Institute. We expect to host it in 2009 at the latest.

THE OXFORD INSTITUTE OF AGEING

DIRECTOR’S REPORT - Professor Sarah Harper The academic year, 2006-07, has been a very vibrant and successful year for the Institute, reflecting the growing interest by both academia and governments in the area of population ageing. The Institute further consolidated its research activities and extended its commitment to teaching. The research programmes enable the Institute to address demographic ageing at the global, societal and individual level, through a series of multi-disciplinary projects, and through geographic regions and themes. Existing research, funded by Help the Aged, the European Commission, the Wellcome Trust, James Martin, HSBC, Leverhulme, the British Academy and the British Occupational Health Foundation, was extended with new grants and donations from the ESRC, Norface, Wellcome Trust, Sir Hailey Stewart Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, John Fell and the Nuffield Foundation. The Institute continued its strong relationship with the charity Help the Aged, a partnership first established in 2001. The Institute is grateful for the support which Help the Aged continues to provide and would particularly like to acknowledge the help, advice and support given over the year from the Director General, Michael Lake, and Paul Cann, the Head of Policy, Research and International Affairs. Now in its second year, funding from HSBC Insurance Holdings allowed the Institute to continue development of its Ageing Research Programmes, and to develop further the Themes within each Programme. “The Future of Retirement: The new old age” was released globally by HSBC and the Oxford Institute of Ageing on 22 May 2007. This third annual report, was conducted amongst 21,000 people aged 40-79 across 21 countries and territories, and is part of the world's largest research programme that investigates attitudes towards later life, ageing and retirement. Members of the Institute were involved in extensive global publicity surrounding the launch of this Report. Also in its second year, the James Martin Global Ageing Programme has now funded six James Martin Research Fellows and one James Martin Research Officer. Four of the Research Fellows have attracted co-funding for their positions. All six have attracted co-funding for new academic positions, conferences and other research activity. Regular meetings for all James Martin Fellows were well attended by members of the Institute, who were also pleased to participate in, and attend, the James Martin Seminar Series. The Institute published its Review Report to the James Martin School of the 21st Century in August 2007, identifying areas of success and development, made possible by funding from James Martin. The Institute participated in the James Martin Global Ageing Day 8 July

2006; the James Martin Fellows Day 15 June 2007 which was hosted by the Oxford Institute of Ageing; and the joint seminar with James Martin Institute on Global Ageing, 28 June 2007. The British Occupational Health Research Foundation approached and commissioned work from members of the Institute from October 2005, but unfortunately the expected access to certain employee groups proved to be impossible. It is was with regret, therefore, that both parties agreed to cease funding on this particular theme, with effect from September 2007, although work already completed has formed a valuable part of the Institute’s continuing research programme on Ageing Workforces. In December 2006 and January 2007 we were delighted to host Expert Meetings on behalf of the MacArthur Foundation, to facilitate networking within their “Aging Programme”. Some 20 UK and European academics, considered experts in their field, met at the Institute and discussed various aspects of individual, societal and global ageing. The OIA continues with two visiting fellowships for emerging researchers from Asia, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe. The Institute would like to thank Help the Aged for their generous sponsorship of the Help the Aged Visiting Fellowship. The Help the Aged Visiting Fellow for 2006 was Ojalinka Ajomale, Research Director of the African Gerontological Society, in Ibaban Nigeria, who visited the OIA for a period of 10 weeks October to December 2006. The Help the Aged Visiting Fellow for 2007 was Alejandro Klein, whose visit was postponed until January 2008. In addition the Institute were pleased to host various visitors, including visitors from China, Indonesia, Thailand, Bulgaria, Vienna, Spain, France, Australia and Norway. The academic year saw the fourth successful year of the journal Ageing Horizons edited by Kenneth Howse and Alis Oancea, assisted by Pavel Ovseiko. This journal review of new policy relevant developments continues to be well received by the international ageing community. The Institute is grateful to HSBC Insurance for providing the funding, and for supporting the Ageing Horizon’s data briefings. The Oxford Institute of Ageing is the Oxford lead group on the Ageing Sector of IARU – the International Alliance of Research Universities, and this will be developed further throughout 2007/08. The Institute was approached by the National Institute on Aging (USA) and the Nuffield Foundation to run a European based Spring School on Ageing early in 2008. This is hoped to be initially a three year programme attracting emerging researchers from Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa. Professor Sarah Harper and Dr George Leeson were invited by Springer Publications to edit a new publication, the Journal of Population Ageing, to be launched Spring 2008. The Institute is leading a cross-divisional initiative to establish a Masters on Ageing. The Institute continued DPhil teaching, welcoming students via the Departments of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, and Public Health. The Institute has benefited from facilities within Manor Road Building, with increased opportunity to collaborate with senior academics within other departments and institutes. However, a move to separate premises is essential to enable the Institute to continue to develop. The University has identified premises at 66 Banbury Road as being suitable and plans are in place to move the Institute within the next academic year. Finally we thank Professor Andrew Ashworth, Vinerian Professor of English Law, and Professor David Smith, Head of Pharmacology for completing their term of office on our Management Committee. We also thank Professor John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine and Mr Tim Gardam, Principal of St Anne’s College for their continued service within the Management Committee, and welcome Professor Roger Goodman and Professor Alastair Buchan to the Committee for the year 2006/07. We are grateful to members of our Advisory Board and Management Committee for their time, advice and expertise. The diversity of these two bodies reflects the truly multi-disciplinarity of the Institute's activities.

INDIVIDUAL REPORTS MEMBERS Dr Tak Wing Chan (University Lecturer in Sociology, Fellow of New College) Tak Wing Chan has continued his research in the sociology of the family, focussing on intergenerational exchange relationship and parenting sytle. But the major research focus of this year has been the ESRC/AHRC-funded research project on "Social status, lifestyle and cultural consumption" which concluded in March 2007. This has proved to be a very fruitful research project. Apart from various research papers which have come out in prominent journals, he has organised a research conference in Oxford in November 2006. Together with John Goldthorpe, he also guest-edited a special double issue of the journal Poetics (vol.35, issues 2/3).He has presented papers in various international conferences, including the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Montreal, the World Congress of the International Sociological Association in Durban, the annual meeting of the British Society for Population Studies in Southampton, the annual meeting of Population Association of America in New York, the BHPS conference in Colchester and a meeting of the ISA research committee 28 on social stratification and mobility in Brno. Prof Geoffrey Evans (Official Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College) Geoffrey Evans continued work on the relations between electorates and democratic government. Education and its Impact on Democratic Development. He continued his work with Pauline Rose on the role of schooling in promoting democratic orientations in Africa. In May an eighteen-nation comparative study examining the mechanisms through which education influences democratic attitudes and the substantial magnitude of this influence was presented at a specialist Afrobarometer meeting at Michigan State University and at invited seminars at Cornell and Toronto Universities. Political Preference Formation. He and Mark Pickup presented a paper demonstrating the political conditioning of economic perceptions in the 20002004 US Presidential elections cycle at the ReMiSS workshop on Context and Voting in May, and at the annual UK Political Studies Association and Mid-West Political Science Association meetings, in April. They shortly hope to generalize the models developed in this work to analyses of the political nature of EU and other issues preferences. Further studies (with Bob Andersen) on the endogeneity of survey responses using the British Election Panel Study to examine the nature of leadership effects on voting over the period 1992-2001 are also in play. Consociationalism and Party Strategy. He continued his collaborative work on the development of the party system in Northern Ireland and the impact of the implementation of the Northern Ireland Assembly on the structure of political divisions. As well as work with Paul Mitchell and Brendan O’Leary examining the sources of increased support for Sinn Fein and the DUP in recent elections, he and James Tilley have recently completed a study of the long-term cohort changes in such support. This has been presented at the ECPR meeting in Pisa in September and demonstrates the role of political socialization rather polarization in conditioning such changes. A paper demonstrating the evolution of the Northern Ireland cleavage structure in response to institutional changes has recently been accepted for publication in the British Journal of Political Science. Social Structure and Party Strategy. Following a group meeting in Barcelona last year, the EQUALSOC-based multinational project on social and political change headed with Nan Dirk de Graaf has progressed with a systematic validation and re-calibration of the Comparative Manifesto Project data (by Sara Hobolt and Ryan Bakker of ReMiSS) which provided country chapter authors with the final evidence required for their dynamic analyses of the relations between social structure, voting and party programme polarization. Provisional results will be presented at a project meeting to be held shortly in the College. Democracy and Inequality in Post-Communist Societies. During this year all of the thirteen-nation

survey data (and focus group studies) for the EU-funded project on economic inequality and democracy in post-Communist societies has been collected. Detailed analysis has now commenced. Professional Activities. He has continued as director of ReMiSS which has this year held several successful methods workshops, and as editor of Electoral Studies, which at the start of the year implemented a new and pleasingly efficient web-based submission procedure. As external assessor he was also involved in a (very positive) evaluation of the LSE Methodology Institute. Dr Muriel Egerton (Senior Research Fellow, CTUR) This year I have continued to use time use data to explore educational stratification, unpaid work and the valuation of unpaid work. A paper with Killian Mullan (ISER) is forthcoming in the British Journal of Sociology and is available on the department website. A methodological paper on the analysis of infrequent activities with J Gershuny was presented at the 2006 IATUR conference and will shortly be available as a working paper. An analysis of parenting practices by parental education will be presented at the CRESC Conference in September. A paper on graduate earnings with Hugh Lauder, Phil Brown and David Ashton is currently being revised. With Sin Yi Cheung, as part of a comparative project, an analysis of the effects of parental social class and education in a context of educational expansion has been published in a book edited by Shavit et al (2007). A paper with Kimberly Fisher, J. Gershuny and John Robinson on gender was published this year in Social Indicators Research. An analysis of changes in the value of unpaid work in the USA over four decades is in preparation. Dr Steve Fisher (University Lecturer in Political Sociology, Fellow of Trinity College) Research this year was focused on a project on accountability and representation. Although it is frequently assumed that majoritarian systems (including those with first-past-the-post electoral systems) promote government accountability while PR systems emphasize representation, analysis of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (www.cses.org) data suggests that while voters in majoritarian systems are more likely to treat an election as a referendum on the government’s performance, the extent to which people feel their views are represented by a political party is roughly the same in each kind of system. Moreover, there is no sign of any tendency for voters in PR systems to be more likely to treat an election as a exercise in seeking representation for their views. During the course of the year Stephen gave talks in Oxford, Mannheim, Chicago, Philadelphia, Manchester and at the Houses of Parliament. Dr Kimberly Fisher (Research Fellow, CTUR) Over the last academic year, I have been involved with the move of the Centre for Time Use Research from the Institute for Social and Economic Research, where the team was more loosely and informally organised, to the University of Oxford, where our purpose and scope has expanded considerably. I am involved in the upgrade of the Multinational Time Use Study and American Heritage Time Use Study projects, and the development of a 4-volume series on classic time use research articles with Professor Jonathan Gershuny for Sage. Additionally, I have worked on a number of small-scale time use projects comparing daily activities in rural and urban settings, children’s time use, and the use of time by couples. I have presented work and acted as a discussant at the Population Association of America and ISI conferences this year, and I am an organiser of the upcoming International Association for Time Use Research conference which will take place in Washington DC in October 2007. At this conference, I also will be administering an MTUS/AHTUS user group meeting and running an MTUS analysis workshop. I also taught a time use analysis course at the Essex Summer School in Data Collection and Analysis

Prof Diego Gambetta, FBA (Official Fellow of Nuffield College) An intellectually exciting but rather frustrating year – for none of the three research projects I have in play has reached completion. First, I made some progress in revising Crimes and Signs: Cracking the Code of the Underworld. I finished seven chapters out of ten. This book, which Princeton University Press has been patiently waiting for, should be out late next year. Next, in December 2006 I completed (with Steffen Hertog) ‘Engineers of Jihad’ and submitted it to the American Journal of Sociology. Following a Revise & Resubmit we received 5 months later, we have worked a lot more on it, among other things acquiring more data on Western and South East Asian Islamic radicals. The pattern we find is intriguing: while the share of graduates of all types among violent Islamic extremists varies – over 50% in the Middle East and North African groups but far fewer among Western groups and South East Asian ones –, the proportion of engineers remains high, and vastly overrepresented, in all the areas. We have now re-submitted. If you missed my presentation of the paper at the Sociology Seminar in Trinity 2007 you will have to read it to find out ‘what’s wrong with engineers’! Third, the survey-based ‘trust game’ experiment with a sample of the British population (with John Ermisch, Heather Laurie and others at ISER), was completed successfully in June 2007. Finalising the precise features of the experiment, the follow-up questionnaire, and organising the practicalities took up quite some time, but has been interesting because of the novelty of the method we used. Instead of the lab, we employed professional interviewers who had to be trained before they could visit the 259 subjects at their homes. We have now started to analyse the data: we are able to investigate trusting and trustworthiness as behaviours in the game and correlate them with individual traits derived from the BHPS panel survey questionnaire administered to these subjects in 2003 and 2006. How trusting and trustworthy do you think the British are? Are women more trusting/trustworthy than men, richer people more than poorer ones, the elderly more than the young, the religious more than the atheists? All will be revealed... With regard to other activities I have - organised a workshop on Mimicry in Civil Wars to be held at the Collége de France, Paris, on 7-8 December 2007. The workshop is part of the series on Micro Foundations of Civil Wars, run by a group of scholars led by Jon Elster, under the aegis of the Centre for the Study of Civil Wars, PRIO, Oslo. - restructured my webpage (with the valiant assistance from Marina Tzvetkova and Anton Verstraete); - re-organised and made available through my webpage for free public use two archives, one contains about a 1000 ‘cards’ of text I extracted from various judicial sources and Mafioso ‘confessions’, which I arranged according to a conceptual grid; this archive was the core evidence for writing The Sicilian Mafia (John Carlarne provided the technical support). The other is the database on suicide missions worldwide 1981-2005, which I constructed with Marina Tzvetkova for writing the lengthy postscript to the paperback edition of Making Sense of Suicide Missions Prof Jonathan Gershuny, FBA ((Director of Graduate Studies, Fellow of St Hugh’s College) J Gershuny arrived in the Department in October 2006, bringing with him from Essex University, the Centre for Time Use Research (the CTUR also includes Egerton, Fisher, Kan and Sanz). Over this academic year he was Principal Investigator for two ESRC-funded projects: “Time Use and Social Change” and “Unpaid Work and the Wage Gap”.

The “Time Use and Social Change Project” (which continues until end September 2008) involves the ex post harmonization of a large number of nationally representative time-diary studies, notably from the Eurostat-based cross-national time use study (to which CTUR provides consultancy services) and the new American Time-use Study (started in 2003) together with older studies from many other countries from the 1960s and subsequently. Research projects using these materials range from micro-sociological studies of daily activity sequences (investigating, for example, the extent of historical change in heterosexual couples’ co-presence in leisure activities, as a measure of the changing nature of intimacy) to more macroscopic work (for example, producing extensions to conventional National Accounts, so as to include the value of production outside the money economy undertaken on the basis of reciprocity). The “Unpaid work/wage gap” project (which is part of the ESRC Gender Network) is investigating the hypothesis that disproportionate responsibility for domestic work in the household reduces women’s ability to accumulate economically salient “human capital”, and hence that the continuing gender wage gap is to be understood partly as a consequence of discriminatory practices outside the labour market. Kan and Gershuny are have developed techniques for calibrating time use estimates within the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which they will use to investigate the dynamic interactions of paid and unpaid work, and their relationship to pay differentials. During this year Gershuny gave a number of guest lectures, notably the Keynote Address at the Annual BHPS Conference. He sat on the Review Committee on the future prospects for the social science departments at Manchester University. He continued to act as the Chair of the Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics Section (S4) of the British Academy, and spent a term as a visiting professor at sciences po in Paris. Much of his summer vacation was devoted to writing a large new research proposal to provide future funding for the CTUR Prof A H Halsey, FBA (Emeritus Professor, Nuffield College) Emeritus Professor A. H. Halsey (Chelly) is now 84 and slowing in activity. He takes an interest in the history of the College and has attended the ‘Witness seminars’ run by John Darwin, one of which, on the history of sociology, he gave himself. He is also working on ‘the idea of a college’ with a view to presenting a paper at the College Charter celebrations in the summer of 2008. He finished a new book on ethical socialism (see below). It recounts the continuation of that tradition since R. H. Tawney died in 1962 and assesses the prospects for global ethical socialism in the face of climate warming and the threats of population growth and nuclear destruction. Prof Anthony Heath, FBA (Head of Department, Professor of Sociology) This year has largely been devoted to doctoral students – both supervision and examination. Five of my doctoral students have successfully passed their vivas this year (and three more have submitted and are awaiting their vivas). I have also been the internal examiner for six doctorates (with three more in the pipeline). While very rewarding and educational, this has not left a great deal of time for other academic work. The main area of academic work continues to be ethnicity. As part of the Equalsoc network, I have edited a special issue of the journal Ethnicities on the education of the ‘second generation’ (the children of immigrants) in Western Europe and the USA, have participated in a cross-national project (funded by the NSF and the Nuffield Foundation) on the children of immigrants in schools, and am working on a review article for the Annual Review of Sociology on the second generation in Europe. With Christopher McCrudden (Law), Heather Hamill (Sociology) and Peter Clifford (Statistics) a new project (funded by the Nuffield Foundation) ‘Assessing the Affirmative Action Programme in

Northern Ireland’ has been started. With other colleagues smaller pieces of work have been undertaken for the National Employment Panel (on ethnic penalties) and for the Department for Communities and Local Government (on social cohesion).

Prof Sarah Harper (Director, Oxford Institute of Ageing) Sarah Harper (Non-stipendiary Research Fellow) is Professor of Gerontology and Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing, a multi-disciplinary research unit concerned with the implications of population ageing. The Institute is also part of the James Martin School of the 21st Century. Her research concerns the impact of population change, in particular the implications at the global, societal and individual level of the shift in population ages from predominantly young to predominantly older societies. Her own research focuses on globalization and global ageing, and the impact of this demographic shift on family relationships and work. In the area of family research, she continues her work with La Fontaine on young children living with grandparents with Alzheimer’s Disease; with Aboderin on an EU study of the impact of the female migration from Africa, and from Eastern Europe on families left behind in the source countries; and with Ross on capacity change in later life. In the area of global ageing, she is PI with Leeson on the Global Ageing Study, a survey of 21,000 men and women aged over 40 in 21 countries. She continues her professional commitments as a Member, Help the Aged’s Research Strategy Committee and Help the Aged’s Social Policy Committee; Governor, Pensions Policy Institute; member of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) Advisory Board; Global Advisor on Ageing to HSBC; and Chair of the Global Commission on Ageing. Sarah is a founding joint editor (with George Leeson) of the new Journal of Population Ageing, published by Springer. This year she took up positions as the UK International Collaborator on the Australian Research Council/NHMRC Research Network in Ageing Well; and as a member of the Scientific Programme Committee of 2008 IFA Conference (Montreal). Dr Michelle Jackson (Research Fellow of Nuffield College) Michelle Jackson (Research Fellow) started work on her ESRC-funded research project, ‘Investigating Inequalities in Educational Attainment’ (funded under the ‘Understanding Population Trends and Processes’ scheme). The project examines whether class, ethnic and sex inequalities in educational attainment have changed over time in Britain. Previous research has indicated that even if previous educational performance is held constant, children of more advantaged background will more often choose to stay on in full-time education, or to take more ambitious courses than will children of less advantaged background. The project takes this empirical finding as a starting point, and considers the relative importance of previous educational performance and choice in the creation of inequalities in educational attainment. In other work, Michelle has further analysed data from her previous research project which investigated whether employers discriminate against candidates from working class backgrounds when recruiting for professional and managerial occupations. One notable finding is that employers are more likely to use formal language when writing to middle class candidates than they are when writing to working class candidates. She has also finished a chapter on content analysis for a research methods textbook, and with John Goldthorpe, she finished work on a paper titled, ‘Intergenerational Class Mobility in Contemporary Britain: Political Concerns and Empirical Findings’. Michelle has presented papers at conferences held in the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (Institute of Education, University of London) and Leeds University. She was also an invited speaker at a conference which aimed to promote the Social Mobility Foundation to employers (the Foundation

helps sixth form students from disadvantaged backgrounds to obtain work placements with leading employers). Finally, she attended the Brno meeting of Research Committee 28 (Social Stratification and Mobility) in May 2007. Dr Man-Yee Kan (Research Fellow, CTUR) Man Yee has been working with Jonathan Gershuny on an ESRC funded project to investigate the impacts of the domestic division of labour on the gender wage gap. She presented the findings at a departmental seminar in Oxford, and conferences in Cambridge and Paris. She has been writing up the findings for a chapter of a forthcoming book edited by John Ermisch and Malcolm Brynin at Essex University. In Oxford, she also gave Introduction to Sociology tutorials to Human Sciences students and helped advising some MSc students on their dissertations. With Heather Laurie at Essex University, she has been working on a project about the distribution of financial assets and debts within marital relationships. They presented the preliminary findings in the 2007 BHPS Conference at Essex University. With Stephen Pudney at Essex University, she has been working on a project about measurement error in time use data. They produced a working paper, which is under review by Sociological Methodology. She has proposed a new project to investigate the changes in work schedules and family activity patterns in France and Britain between 1960s and 2000s, in collaboration with Laurent Lesnard at Sciences-Po, France. They will jointly organize a session on the application of sequence methods in social science research in the ISA Research Committee 33 (Logic and Methodology) Conference next year. Ms Jean Martin, AcSS,(Senior Research Fellow) I have completed work on a chapter on social identities (with Anthony Heath and Gabriella Elgenius) for the British Social Attitudes report which was published in January 2007. She taught the Survey Research Methods course on the MSc in Sociology and a short course on Practical Survey Analysis (with Anthony Heath). She is currently working on a joint project with former colleagues at the Office for National Statistics examining the joint effects of ethnicity and religion in the determination of labour market outcomes such as unemployment and type of occupation attained. Mr Colin Mills (University Lecturer, Fellow of Nuffield College) My major achievement this year has been finally to get the manuscript of a book off to the publisher. Market, Class and Employment, coauthored with Patrick McGovern (LSE), Stephen Hill (RHUL) and Michael White (PSI), has been in gestation since 2001 when we collected data on people’s working lives in our Working in Britain survey. After a few false starts we finally got our act together and turned our always fascinating conversations into words on the page – actually a few more than OUP actually wanted. A book with four authors is a bit like a horse with four riders; you are not always certain which direction it is going to go in and you can only hope that the destination is somewhere near where you all wanted to go. Towards the end it did at times looked as though the horse would collapse from exhaustion, but with a strenuous spurring from comrade McGovern we arrived somewhere that we could all live with. The proofs were returned in early August and the book should be in the shops either in December 2007 or January 2008.

Dr Tiziana Nazio (Career Development Fellow, Research Fellow of Nuffield College) Tiziana Nazio I have undertaken some teaching including lecturing and supervision of MSc and MPhil students. My research work has concentrated on three projects. In October 2006 I started a comparative project on the interrelationship between labour market careers and childbirth decisions in Italy, Germany and the UK (principal investigator, funded by ESRC). I have also been contributing to the module 7 of the comparative WORKCARE project (European 6th Framework Programme) on changing relationships between work, care and welfare in Europe, together with J. O’Reilly (Sussex University) and J. MacInnes (Edinburgh University). In this project my work concentrates on the study of the transitions between different households’ breadwinning arrangements. Finally, I began a collaboration with C. Saraceno (WZB, Berlin) on a comparative research project within the Equalsoc network of excellence on the transformation of intergenerational relationships. Here, we explore the differences between married and cohabiting couples in the frequency of contacts and visits to their parents, comparing Italy and the UK. I have completed a book based on my PhD thesis (Routledge, in press), where I study the diffusion process of cohabitation in six European national contexts and explore how such an alternative living arrangement has impacted on family formation since the late 1960s. During the year I have presented my work on work-life balance and time stress at the Sociology Seminar series at Oxford University. I have refereed papers for the European Sociological Review, the British Journal of Sociology, and Gender, Work and Organization. Dr Valeria Pizzini-Gambetta (Research Fellow) From September 1st 2005 to August 31st 2006 Dr Pizzini-Gambetta has worked part time as a Research Officer to the development of the project Illegal Political and Criminal Organizations funded by the University of Oxford Research Development Fund. Her task was to develop a project with Dr Heather Hamill to be submitted to a major source of external funding. The result project was submitted by Dr Heather Hamill to the ESRC First Grant Scheme in January 2006 and awarded a three year grant in June the same year. From September 1st 2006 to August 31st 2007 Dr Valeria Pizzini-Gambetta has worked full time as a Research Officer to the research project Recruitment into insurgency and Extra-Legal Organizations with Dr Heather Hamill, financed by the ESRC for three years and she will be engaged part time to it until 2009. Dr Valeria Pizzini-Gambetta is also currently engaged into developing a project on To Sign or not to Sign: claiming choices and political violence. She has been a member of the Personnel sub-committee since August 2006, and has supervised one MA student in 2006 (Mr Jer Kang)

PUBLICATIONS BY MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT Chan, T.W. and Goldthorpe, J.H. (2007). Social stratification and cultural consumption: The visual arts in England. Poetics, 35(2/3):168--190. Chan, T.W. and Goldthorpe, J.H. (2007). Class and status: The conceptual distinction and its empirical relevance. American Sociological Review, 72(4), 512-532. Chan, T.W. and Goldthorpe, J.H. (2007). Social stratification and cultural consumption: Music in England. European Sociological Review, 23(1), 1–19.

Chan, T.W. and Goldthorpe, J.H. (2007). Social status and newspaper readership. American Journal of Sociology, 112(4), 1095–1134. Evans, Geoffrey ‘Is Multiculturalism Eroding Support for Welfare Provision? A Case Study of British Social Attitudes’, in K. Banting and W. Kymlicka (eds.), Do Multiculturalism Policies Erode the Welfare State? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 152-76. Evans, Geoffrey ‘Class and Voting’, in George Ritzer (ed.), Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, pp. 551-54. Evans, Geoffrey (with Sarah Butt) ‘Explaining Change in British Public Opinion on the European Union: Top Down or Bottom Up?’ Acta Politica, 42, 173-90, 2007. Evans, Geoffrey (with Pauline Rose) ‘Support for Democracy in Malawi: Does Schooling Matter?’ World Development, 35, 904-19, 2007. Egerton, M. and Mullan, K. (forthcoming in the British Journal of Sociology) ‘Being a pretty good citizen: an analysis and monetary valuation of formal and informal voluntary work by gender and educational attainment’ (Oxford SWP 2007-08) Gershuny, J. and Egerton, M. (2006) ‘Evidence on participation and participants’ time use from day- and week-long diaries: implications for modelling time use’ Paper given at the IATUR Conference, August 2006, Danish National Institute of Social Research, Copenhagen, http://www.sfi.dk/sw39678.asp Egerton, Muriel (2007) ‘Cultural Capital : An empirical investigation of parental educational practices in the United Kingdom using Time Diary data’ to be presented at the CRESC Conference, Manchester University September 5th-7th 2007. Lauder, H., Egerton, M., Brown, P. and Ashton, D. (in preparation) ‘Education, Skill Bias Theory and Graduate Earnings: A Critique and Alternative’ Cheung, S.Y. and Egerton, M. (2007) ‘Higher Education Expansion and Reform: changing educational inequalities in Great Britain’ pp. 195-219 in Stratification in Higher Education: A comparative study (eds) Yossi Shavit, Richard Arum, Adam Gamoran with Gila Menahem, California: Stanford University Press Fisher, Kimberly, Muriel Egerton, Jonathan I. Gershuny, and John P. Robinson. (2007) ‘Gender Convergence in the American Heritage Time Use Study’ Social Indicators Research; 82(1): 1-33 . Bittman, Michael, and Kimberly Fisher. (2006) Exploring the Economic and Social Value of Present Patterns of Volunteering in Australia: Social Policy Research Paper 28. Australian Government, Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. http://www.ozvpm.com/documents/researchpaper28.pdf Fisher, Kimberly, Muriel Egerton. Jonathan I. Gershuny, and John P. Robinson. (2007) “Gender Convergence in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS)” Social Indicators Research, 82(1): 1-33; formerly ISER Working Paper 2006-25, Colchester, University of Essex, http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/pubs/workpaps/pdf/2006-25.pdf

Hill, Patricia, Kimberly Fisher, Michael Bittman and Cathy Thomson. (2007) “Caregivers and Community Services Non-use in Australia” in Isabella Paoletti (ed.) Family Caregiving to Older Disabled People: Relational and Institutional Issues New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.: 359-391. Tudor-Locke, Catrine, Hidde P. van der Ploeg, Heather R. Bowels, Michael Bittman, Kimberly Fisher, Dafna Merom, Jonathan Gershuny, Adrian Bauman, and Muriel Egerton. (2007) “Walking Behaviours from the 1965-2003 American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS)” International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity forthcoming. Diego Gambetta ‘Trust's Odd Ways’, in J. Elster, O. Gjelsvik, A. Hylland and K. Moene (eds.), Understanding Choice, Explaining Behaviour Essays in Honour of Ole-Jørgen Skog. Oslo: Unipub Forlag/Oslo Academic Press, 2006, pp. 81-100. Diego Gambetta ‘Two Types of Corruption and the Self-fulfilling Nature of the Beliefs about Corruption’, in M. Kreutner (ed.), The Corruption Monster: Ethik, Politik und Korruption. Wien: Czermin Verlag, 2006, pp. 137-44. Diego Gambetta La Mafia siciliana. El negocio de la la protección privada. (Spanish translation, with a new Introduction) Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007. Diego Gambetta ‘Mimicry, fiducia, società: incontro con Diego Gambetta’, Quaderni pluridisciplinari, a new Journal edited by Salvatore Costantino e Cirus Rinaldi, N.0, 184-92, April 2007. Jonathan Gershuny Information and Communication Technologies in Society (eds Ben Anderson, Malcolm Brynin, Jonathan Gershuny and Yoel Raban) London: Routledge, 2007. (ISBN10: 0-41538384-6), (contributing “Chapter 9, Web-use and Net-nerds” and “Chapter 21: Conclusion: a slow start”). A. H. Halsey (with contributions by Frank Field, Roy Hattersley, Ben Jackson and Paul Segal, Stuart White, and Alan Deacon) Democracy in Crisis? Ethical Socialism for a Prosperous Country. London: Politico’s Publishing; Methuen, 2007. Harper, Sarah Mature Societies: Planning for our Future Selves’, Daedalus, 135:1, 20-31, 2006 Harper, Sarah (with G. W. Leeson) The Status Quo of Foreign Workers in the Health and Social Care Sector in the UK. Tokyo, Japan: National Council of Social Welfare, 2006. Harper, Sarah (with R. Goodman) ‘Introduction: Asia’s Position in the New Global Demography’, Oxford Development Studies, 34:4, 373-85, 2006 Harper, Sarah ‘Addressing the Implications of Global Ageing’, Journal of Population Research, 23:2, 205-23, 2006. Harper, Sarah ‘Ageing Repositioned: Singapore in the New Global Demography’, ETHOS, Centre for Governance and Leadership, Civil Service College, Issue 1, 24-27, 2006. Harper, Sarah ‘Youth – A Scarce Commodity Within an Ageing World’, Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy, 21:2, 479-91, 2007.

Harper, Sarah (with S. Marcus) ‘Age-Related Capacity Decline: A Review of Some Workplace Implications’, Ageing Horizons, Oxford Institute of Ageing, Issue 5, 20-30, 2006. Harper, Sarah (with G. W. Leeson, A. Saxena, and H. T. A. Khan) ‘Attitudes and Practices of Employers Towards Ageing Workers: Evidence from a Global Survey on the Future of Retirement’, Ageing Horizons, Oxford Institute of Ageing, Issue 5, 31-41, 2006. Publications Heath, A F, (edited with Sin Yi Cheung) Unequal Chances: Ethnic Minorities in Western Labour Markets. Proceedings of the British Academy 137. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Heath, A F, (2007) ‘Perspectives on electoral behavior’. Pp 610-618 in Russell J Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Political Behaviour. Oxford: OUP Heath, A F, Martin, J and Elgenius, Gabriella (2007) ‘Who do we think we are? The decline of traditional social identities’ in Park, A, Curtice, K, Thomson, K, Phillips, M and Johnson, M (eds) Heath, A F, British Social Attitudes: the 23rd Report – Perspectives on a changing Society. London: Sage, pp. 1-34. Fisher, S and Heath, A F (2006) ‘Decreasing desires for income inequality?’ in Ester, P, Braun, M, and Mohler, P (eds) Globalization, Value Change, and Generations: a cross-national and intergenerational perspective, Leiden: Brill, pp. 207-227. Andersen, R, Min Yang and Heath, A F (2006) ‘Class politics and political context in Britain, 1964-97: have voters become more individualized?’ European Sociological Review, 22: 215-228. Jackson, Michelle How far Merit Selection? Social Stratification and the Labour Market’, British Journal of Sociology, 58:3, 367-89, 2007. Jackson, Michelle (with R. Erikson, J.H. Goldthorpe and M. Yaish) ‘Primary and Secondary Effects in Class Differentials in Educational Attainment’, Acta Sociologica, 50:3, 211-30, 2007. Kan, M. Y. (forthcoming) 'Measuring Housework Participation: the gap between "stylised" questionnaire estimates and diary-based estimates'. Social Indicators Research. Kan, M. Y. (forthcoming) ‘Does Gender Trump Money? Housework hours of husbands and wives in Britain’. Work, Employment and Society. Kan, M. Y. (forthcoming) 'Work Orientation and Wives' Employment Careers: an evaluation of Hakim's preference theory'. Work and Occupations. Kan, M. Y. & Pudney, S. (February 2007) 'Measurement Error in Stylised and Diary Data on Time Use'. Working Paper of Department of Sociology, Paper 2007-05. Oxford: University of Oxford. (Also published as Working Paper of Institute for Social and Economic Research, paper 2007-03. Colchester: University of Essex.) Kan, M. Y. & Heath, A. (February 2006) 'The Political Values and Choices of Husbands and Wives'. Journal of Marriage and Family, 68(1), pp. 70-86.

Kan, M. Y. & Gershuny, J. I. (June 2006) British Household Panel Survey Calibrated Time Use Data, 1994-2004 (UK Data Archive Study Number: SN 5363). Colchester: Institute for Social and Economic Research. Kan, M. Y. & Gershuny, J. I. (May 2006) Human Capital and Social Position in Britain: Creating a Measure of Wage-Earning Potential from BHPS Data, 1991-2004 (UK Data Archive Study Number: SN 5354). Colchester: Institute for Social and Economic Research. Mills, Colin Patrick McGovern (LSE), Stephen Hill (RHUL) and Michael White (PSI) Market, Class and Employment Nazio, Tiziana (with J. MacInnes) ‘Time Stress, Well-being and the Double Burden’, in G. EspingAndersen (ed.), Family Formation and Family Dilemmas in Contemporary Europe. Bilbao: Fundación BBVA, 2007, pp. 155-84 Pizzini-Gambetta, Valeria “Becoming Visible: did the Emancipation of Women Reach the Sicilian Mafia?”, in A. Cento Bull, A..Giorgio, editors., Speaking Out and Silencing, Maney&Son, London Pizzini-Gambetta, Valeria 2007 “Mafia Women in Brooklyn”, Global Crime, 8:1, 80-93.

CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PAPERS Kan, M. Y. & Laurie, H. (5 July 2007) ' The Distribution of Financial Savings, Wealth and Debts within Married and Cohabiting Couples'. British Household Panel Survey Conference (5 - 7 July). Colchester: Institute for Social and Economic Research. Kan, M. Y. (5 February 2007) 'The Division of Domestic Labour and Women’s Human Capital'. Seminar of the Department of Sociology. Oxford: University of Oxford. Gershuny, J. I. & Kan, M. Y. (14 December 2006) ‘Gender and Time Use over the Life Course’. ESRC Gender Equality Network Second Conference (14 December-15 December). Cambridge: ESRC Gender Equality Network. Kan, M. Y. (8 February 2006) 'Measuring Housework Participation: the gap between "stylised" questionnaire estimates and diary-based estimates'. Joint Empirical Social Science Seminar (8 February). Colchester: Institute for Social and Economic Research. Dr Valeria Pizzini-Gambetta gave a paper to the Organized Crime and Corruption Discussion Group, St.Anthony’s College, Oxford ( “Has Alexis de Tocqueville’s ‘Irresistible Revolution’ Reached the Sicilian Mafia?, 24 May). She is scheduled to present a paper at the College de France in Paris in 2007 (“‘Signed” and anonymous acts of political violence, Italy 1969-1983”, Mimicry in Civil Wars. The Strategic Use of Identity Signals, 7-8 December)

RESEARCH GRANTS Anthony Heath, Maria Sobolewska: Grant from xxxxxxxxxx “The political attitudes and behaviour of ethnic minorities in Britian” £172,238 from the Nuffield Foundation to study ‘Assessing the affirmative action programme in Northern Ireland (OPD/33573), 2007-8. with Christopher McCrudden and Heather Hamill. £179,813 from the ESRC to study ‘Are Traditional Identities in Decline?’ 2004-2007 (RES-148-250031) with John Curtice, Katarina Thomson and Robert Andersen. Gabriella Elgenius named researcher £36,460 from the ESRC to study ‘Being British: National Identity in a Global Context’ 2003-2006 (RES-000-22-0326) with Alison Park and James Tilley. £50,000 from the Department for Work and Pensions to study ethnic minority disadvantage in the labour market (with Sin Yi Cheung), 2004-5. £10,000 from the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland to study affirmative action in Northern Ireland (with Christopher McCrudden), 2003. £129,537 from the ESRC to study ‘National identity and constitutional change in England’ ((L219252018) with John Curtice and Lindsey Jarvis, 2001-2004.

DEPARTMENTAL WORKING PAPERS 2007-09: Human Capital: ‘Neoclassical Soup’ or the Main Course of Social Change? August 2007, Jonathan Gershuny

2007-08: Being a pretty good citizen: An analysis and monetary valuation of formal and informal voluntary work by gender and educational attainment August 2007, Muriel Egerton and Killian Mullan

2007-07:

'Cultural Capital': Some Critical Observations March 2007, John Goldthorpe

2007-06: Job Quality, Satisfaction and Expectations February 2007, Colin Mills

2007-05: Measurement Error in Stylised and Diary Data on Time Use February 2007, Man Yee Kan and Stephen Pudney

2007-04: Does Interethnic Union Promote Occupational Mobility of Ethnic Minorities in Britain? February 2007, Raya Muttarak

2007-03: The Rationality of Self-inflicted Sufferings: Hunger Strikes by Irish Republicans, 19161923 February 2007, Michael Biggs

2007-02: Social Stratification of Cultural Consumption Across Three Domains: Music, Theatre, Dance and Cinema, and the Visual Arts January 2007, Tak Wing Chan and John Goldthorpe

2007-01: Trends in Social Distance from Ethnic Minorities in Britain 1983-1996: Period, Cohort and Individual Effects January 2007, R.A. Ford

2006-09: What makes people tip? Motivations and Predictions October 2006, Diego Gambetta

ISER CTUR WORKING PAPERS ISER WP 2007-03 (PDF) Measurement Error in Stylised and Diary Data on Time Use Man Yee Kan, Stephen Pudney (February 2007)

OXFORD INSTITUTE OF AGEING WORKING PAPERS 306 : Demography and Civil Society: A Historical Perspective on Contemporary Transitions and their implications for Population Ageing, Kreager - October 2006 107: Updating the debate on intergenerational fairness in pension reform, Howse - March 2007 207: The Ageing Scottish Population: Trends, Consequences, Responses, Raeside and Khan March 2007 307: Functional Solidarity between Grandparents and Grandchildren in Germany, Hoff - May 2007