Julia Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1453 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 18 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Patriarchal Patrimonialism: Authority, Gender, and Max Weber’s Political Sociology
This essay offers a reading of Weber’s political sociology that engages with current research on gender and nation, kinship and elite family networks, and gendered performances of state power. In pursuing this interpretation, the essay draws on two strands of critical reflection on Weber’s historical sociology. The first is the emphasis on agency relations, which examines fraught relationships of delegation and domination as a way to conceptualiz…
Liberalism without Democracy: Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922–1936
The history of Western intervention in the Middle East stretches from the late eighteenth century to the present day. All too often, the Western rationale for invading and occupying a country to liberate its people has produced new forms of domination that have hindered rather than encouraged the emergence of democratic politics. Abdeslam M. Maghraoui advances the understanding of this problematic dynamic through an analysis of efforts to achieve…
Introduction: Social Theory, Modernity, and the Three Waves of Historical Sociology1
The Assassination of Theo van Gogh: From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma
In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent shot van Gogh, slit his throat, and pinned a five-page indictment of Western society to his body. The murder set off a series of reactions, including arson against Muslim schools and mosques. In The Assassination of Theo van Gogh, Ron Eyerman explores the multiple meanings of the murde…
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India
Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge "traveled" to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transformed in the process. Beginning in 1835, India's British rulers funded schools and universities to disseminate modern, western knowledge in the expectation that it would gradually replace indigenous ways of knowing. From the start, western education was endowed with great significance in India, not onl…
Who Counts as a Notable Sociologist on Wikipedia? Gender, Race, and the 'Professor Test
This paper documents and estimates the extent of underrepresentation of women and people of color on the pages of Wikipedia devoted to contemporary American sociologists. In contrast to the demographic diversity of the discipline, sociologists represented on Wikipedia are largely white men. The gender and racial/ethnic gaps in likelihood of representation have exhibited little change over time. Using novel data, we estimate the 'risk' of having a…
The Ladies Vanish
Many notable female sociologists have vanished from the canonical history of American sociology. As the most influential crowd-sourced encyclopedia, Wikipedia promises - but does not necessarily deliver - a democratic corrective to the generation of knowledge, including academic knowledge. This article explores multiple mechanisms by which women either enter or disappear from the disciplinary record by analyzing the unfolding interaction between …
Imperial States in the Age of Discovery
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Women, Gender, and the Revocation of Citizenship in the United States
Taking away citizenship, as an extreme measure, defines its boundaries by specifying acts that are deemed nationally desirable and undesirable. The history of expatriation in the United States serves as a case study for the interaction between gender and the limits of modern citizenship status. Citizenship laws and mechanisms of revocation in the United States were explicitly patriarchal until 1922; until then, women lost their citizenship on mar…
Introduction: Old (Patrimonial) Political Forms Made New
Historical Sociology
Patrimonial Capitalism and Empire
Sovereignty and Sociology: From State Theory to Theories of EmpireThis article is a first published version of a longer argument, for which thanks are due to many for their helpful feedback
Imperial crisis is the analytical axis on which turn two national states of emergency: the Weimar Republic (1918–1933) and the United States on the so-called “Eve of Destruction” (1965–1975). But while Max Weber disagreed with Carl Schmitt with respect to the problem of sovereignty at the core of the German imperium, American sociologists – even those inspired by Weber – by and large did not register the gravity of the moment of political decisio…
Patrimonial Capitalism and Empire
There is today a new interest in empires past and present. Scholars seek fresh ways of understanding a form of power far older than the modern nation state. Others see empire, not long ago assumed to be a mode of governance on the way out, as having a surprising new lease on life, and want to better understand the reasons why. This volume focuses on the interconnected formations of patrimonialism, colonialism/empire and capitalism. Leading schola…
Wikipedia, sociology, and the promise and pitfalls of Big Data
Wikipedia is an important instance of "Big Data," both because it shapes people's frames of reference and because it is a window into the construction-including via crowd-sourcing-of new bodies of knowledge. Based on our own research as well as others' critical and ethnographic work, we take as an instance Wikipedia's evolving representation of the field of sociology and sociologists, including such gendered aspects as male and female scholars an…
How-Am-I-Driving: Agency in Social Science History
As agents, we all act on behalf of others and of our own accord: these are socially and historically interrelated orientations to action in contemporary America. But as chains of accountability erode at work and in the economy, as layers of aides and representatives proliferate in social welfare, and as outsourcing comes to define prisonfare at home and mercenary warfare abroad, the challenges of agency relations come to the fore. These processes…
Interlocking Patrimonialisms and State Formation in Qing China and Early Modern Europe
Familial power contributed to binding territories together and systematically severing them in both China and early modern European states. In the early Qing (1644–1911) Empire, Manchu conquerors met the challenges of securing and expanding rule by discovering ways to use laterally related brothers and imperial bondservants to hold Chinese bureaucrats in check, while deploying bureaucracy to restrain princely brothers from partitioning the state.…
Clear, Hold, Build: Patriarchy and Sovereignty in the Colonization of Early English America
What Do We Mean by 'Class Politics
During the past thirty years in the social sciences, there has been a wide-ranging discussion of 'class politics' in capitalist modernity. Several distinct threads have developed, largely in isolation from each other. The authors suggest that the various accounts implicitly rely on different definitions of class politics and propose a way to classify them. The classification is based on two questions: first, whether changes in the strength of the…
Culture in the transitions to modernity: Seven Pillars of a New Research Agenda
The Puzzle of the American State … and Its Historians
Europe's Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500–1900
The Unknown James Coleman: Culture and History in Foundations of Social Theory
Ruling oneself out: A Theory of Collective Abdications
The author distinguishes several mechanisms of alignment in troubled and uncertain times and assesses their significance through a fine-grained examination of actors' beliefs, shifts in perceptions, and subjective states. To this end, he draws on the analytical and methodological resources of perspectives that usually stand apart : primary historical research, formal decision theory, the phenomenology of group processes, quantitative analyses, an…
The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism
I been panic.I been have to get up.I been
States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State
Contents: States of imagination Thomas Blom Hansen University of Edinburgh and Finn Stepputat Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen I State as governance Demonic societies: Liberalism, bio-politics and sovereignty Mitchell Dean Macquarie University Governing population: The integrated child development services program in Indian Akhil Gupta Stanford University The battlefield and the prize: ANC's bid to reform the South African state Steffe…
Principals and Agents, Colonialists and Company Men: The Decay of Colonial Control in the Dutch East Indies
Patrimonial states and their chartered East India companies propelled the first wave of European colonialism in Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The metropolitan principals of these organizations faced special problems in monitoring and controlling their own colonial agents. Focusing primarily on the Dutch United East Indies Company and secondarily on its English counterpart, I argue that the network structure of each organiz…
American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism
When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform its new colonies through lessons in self-government and the ways of American-style democracy. In both territories, U.S. colonial officials built extensive public school systems, and they set up American-style elections and governmental institutions. The officials aimed their lessons in democratic gove…
Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century
For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the "new imperial history," Gregory Mann argues that this shared military experience between France and Africa was fundamental not only to their colonial relationship but also to the reconfiguration o…
The familial state: Elite family practices and state-making in the early modern Netherlands
Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910
Defending Modernity? High Politics, Feminist Anti-Modernism, and the Place of Gender
In the wake of 9/11 and the subsequent struggles in Afghanistan and Iraq, gender has become even more obviously important for understanding contemporary world politics, including armed conflict and war. Gender is an explicit structuring principle of contemporary conflicts between Western powers and an Islamist fundamentalism energized by opposition to the freedoms enjoyed by Western women and committed to the imposition of a version of sharia tha…
What Do We Mean by 'Class Politics
During the past thirty years in the social sciences, there has been a wide-ranging discussion of 'class politics' in capitalist modernity. Several distinct threads have developed, largely in isolation from each other. The authors suggest that the various accounts implicitly rely on different definitions of class politics and propose a way to classify them. The classification is based on two questions: first, whether changes in the strength of the…
Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology
Who Counts as a Notable Sociologist on Wikipedia? Gender, Race, and the 'Professor Test
This paper documents and estimates the extent of underrepresentation of women and people of color on the pages of Wikipedia devoted to contemporary American sociologists. In contrast to the demographic diversity of the discipline, sociologists represented on Wikipedia are largely white men. The gender and racial/ethnic gaps in likelihood of representation have exhibited little change over time. Using novel data, we estimate the 'risk' of having a…
The Effects of Children on Adults' Psychological Well-Being: 1957-1976
This paper examines trends in the effects of children on adults' psychological well- being between 1957 and 1976. Several indicators of well-being are examined, including measures of quality of life (happiness, satisfaction, worries), psychological distress, and perceptions of parenthood. The findings indicate that parenthood was more stressful in the 1970s than it was in the 1950s and that much of the trend among women was due to changes in empl…
The Ladies Vanish
Many notable female sociologists have vanished from the canonical history of American sociology. As the most influential crowd-sourced encyclopedia, Wikipedia promises - but does not necessarily deliver - a democratic corrective to the generation of knowledge, including academic knowledge. This article explores multiple mechanisms by which women either enter or disappear from the disciplinary record by analyzing the unfolding interaction between …
The Unknown James Coleman: Culture and History in Foundations of Social Theory
Wikipedia, sociology, and the promise and pitfalls of Big Data
Wikipedia is an important instance of "Big Data," both because it shapes people's frames of reference and because it is a window into the construction-including via crowd-sourcing-of new bodies of knowledge. Based on our own research as well as others' critical and ethnographic work, we take as an instance Wikipedia's evolving representation of the field of sociology and sociologists, including such gendered aspects as male and female scholars an…
Culture in the transitions to modernity: Seven Pillars of a New Research Agenda
Trading States, Trading Places: The Role of Patrimonialism in Early Modern Dutch Development
The decline of Iberia in the sixteenth century shook the foundations of world trade and politics, undermining Spain's Asian and American trade monopolies and creating the international opening that spurred other European states and merchants in the contest for overseas markets. After the waves had subsided in the seventeenth century, the world system had been reconfigured. The United Provinces of the Netherlands had become the first truly global …
States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection
Of Rule and Revenue
Women, Gender, and the Revocation of Citizenship in the United States
Taking away citizenship, as an extreme measure, defines its boundaries by specifying acts that are deemed nationally desirable and undesirable. The history of expatriation in the United States serves as a case study for the interaction between gender and the limits of modern citizenship status. Citizenship laws and mechanisms of revocation in the United States were explicitly patriarchal until 1922; until then, women lost their citizenship on mar…
Interlocking Patrimonialisms and State Formation in Qing China and Early Modern Europe
Familial power contributed to binding territories together and systematically severing them in both China and early modern European states. In the early Qing (1644–1911) Empire, Manchu conquerors met the challenges of securing and expanding rule by discovering ways to use laterally related brothers and imperial bondservants to hold Chinese bureaucrats in check, while deploying bureaucracy to restrain princely brothers from partitioning the state.…
Once More into the Breach with Modernity: Rejoinder to Inglehart and Norris, and Young
With respect to modernity and women's place in it, Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris and Iris Marion Young are sharply at odds. Young sees a rending and tearing of the social fabric, and no determinate relationship between gender equality and modernity, while Inglehart and Norris think modernization and women's rights are seamlessly joined at the hip. We think that neither of these analytical stances will do. Our assessment extends from a concept…
Deconstruction and Decomposition? A Comment on Grusky and Weeden
Goldthorpe, J. 2000a. On Sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Goldthorpe, J. 2000b. Rent, Class Conflict, and Class Structure: A Commentary on Sorensen. American Journal of Sociology. 105, 1572-1582. Goldthorpe, J. & Marshall, G. 1992. The Promising Future of Class Analysis: A Response to Recent Critiques. Sociology, 26. 381-400. Grusky, D. & Sorensen, A. B. 1998. Can Class Analysis Be Salvaged? American Journal of Sociology, 103, 1187-123…
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Parenthood and Psychological Well-Being
Recent studies suggest that parenthood may have negative consequences for the psychological well-being of adults. Adults with children at home report that they are less happy and less satisfied with their lives than other groups. They also appear to worry more and to experience higher levels of anxiety and depression. The overall difference between parents and nonparents appears to be small, although it has increased during the past two decades. …
The Nation State: The Neglected Dimension of Class
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
The Effects of Children on Adults' Psychological Well-Being: 1957-1976
This paper examines trends in the effects of children on adults' psychological well- being between 1957 and 1976. Several indicators of well-being are examined, including measures of quality of life (happiness, satisfaction, worries), psychological distress, and perceptions of parenthood. The findings indicate that parenthood was more stressful in the 1970s than it was in the 1950s and that much of the trend among women was due to changes in empl…
Women in Seventeenth-Century France
Of Rule and Revenue
Chain Her by One Foot: The Subjugation of Women in Seventeenth-Century New France
Working-Class Politics in Nineteenth-Century Toulouse, France: Paths of Proletarianization Revisited
The Birth of an Ideology: Myths and Symbols of Nation in Late-Medieval France
Dutch Dilemmas: Anthropologists Look at the Netherlands. Jeremy Boissevain and Jojada Verrips, Eds
Trading States, Trading Places: The Role of Patrimonialism in Early Modern Dutch Development
The decline of Iberia in the sixteenth century shook the foundations of world trade and politics, undermining Spain's Asian and American trade monopolies and creating the international opening that spurred other European states and merchants in the contest for overseas markets. After the waves had subsided in the seventeenth century, the world system had been reconfigured. The United Provinces of the Netherlands had become the first truly global …
The familial state: Elite family practices and state-making in the early modern Netherlands
Cities and the Rise of States in Europe, A.D. 1000 to 1800
Principals and Agents, Colonialists and Company Men: The Decay of Colonial Control in the Dutch East Indies
Patrimonial states and their chartered East India companies propelled the first wave of European colonialism in Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The metropolitan principals of these organizations faced special problems in monitoring and controlling their own colonial agents. Focusing primarily on the Dutch United East Indies Company and secondarily on its English counterpart, I argue that the network structure of each organiz…
Samuel Clark. State and Status: The Rise of the State and Aristocratic Power in Western Europe
In State and Status, Samuel Clark surveys the rise of the state and its relationship to aristocratic power in two zones in western Europe, the British Isles and France and its eastern periphery. The core of Clark's argument examines the ways in which ruling aristocracies were restructured by state formation, particularly the emergence of political centers. As monarchs became more important arbiters of the manifold flows of resources, the exercise…
States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State
Contents: States of imagination Thomas Blom Hansen University of Edinburgh and Finn Stepputat Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen I State as governance Demonic societies: Liberalism, bio-politics and sovereignty Mitchell Dean Macquarie University Governing population: The integrated child development services program in Indian Akhil Gupta Stanford University The battlefield and the prize: ANC's bid to reform the South African state Steffe…
The Poetics of Ghosts: Social Reproduction in the Archive of the Nation
Shamed States
Mutant Messages
Index
Sex Rites, Civil Rights
The Truest Belief Is Compulsion
The Vulva Thieves (Atna Nylkna): Modal Ethics and the Colonial Archive
The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism
I been panic.I been have to get up.I been
Deconstruction and Decomposition? A Comment on Grusky and Weeden
Goldthorpe, J. 2000a. On Sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Goldthorpe, J. 2000b. Rent, Class Conflict, and Class Structure: A Commentary on Sorensen. American Journal of Sociology. 105, 1572-1582. Goldthorpe, J. & Marshall, G. 1992. The Promising Future of Class Analysis: A Response to Recent Critiques. Sociology, 26. 381-400. Grusky, D. & Sorensen, A. B. 1998. Can Class Analysis Be Salvaged? American Journal of Sociology, 103, 1187-123…
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