Catherine Hakim

Catherine Hakim
Born May 30, 1948(1948-05-30)
Middle East
Nationality United Kingdom
Fields Sociology
Institutions Centre for Policy Studies, London School of Economics (1990–2011), ESRC Data Archive, Department of Employment
Known for Preference theory, erotic capital

Catherine Hakim (born 30 May 1948) is a British sociologist and former civil servant. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies. Her research is focused on labour market topics, women's issues and research methods.[1] She is known for developing the preference theory[2] and criticism of many feminist assumptions about women's employment. Lately, she has also become known for her work on "erotic capital".[3][4][5]

She grew up in the Middle East and came to Britain for boarding school aged 16.[3] She has previously been Principal Research Officer in the Department of Employment's Social Science Branch for ten years and Director of the ESRC Data Archive from 1989 to 1990. She was a Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics between 1990 and 2003, when she chose to resign from this position. However, she continued to be affiliated with the institution where she still had an office, and was listed both as a visiting scholar and as a senior research fellow at the institution's website until 2011.[6][7][8]

She is a member of the editorial boards of the European Sociological Review and International Sociology.[6]

Contents

Publications

Selected books

  • Secondary analysis in social research, London : Allen & Unwin, 1982, ISBN 0043120156, ISBN 0043120164
  • Social Change and Innovation in the Labour Market: Evidence from the Census SARs on Occupational Segregation and Labour Mobility, Part-Time Work and Student Jobs, Homework and Self-Employment (Oxford University Press, 1998). ISBN 019829381X
  • Work-Lifestyle Choices in the 21st Century: Preference Theory (Oxford University Press, 2000). With a Preface by Anthony Giddens. ISBN 0199242100
  • Research Design: Successful Designs for Social and Economic Research (Routledge, 2000). ISBN 9780415223126
  • Models of the Family in Modern Societies: Ideals and Realities (Ashgate, 2003). ISBN 0754644065
  • Key Issues in Women’s Work (Glasshouse Press, 1996, 2004). ISBN 1904385168
  • Modelos de Familia en las Sociedades Modernas: Ideales y Realidades (Centro de Investigaciónes Sociológicas, 2005). ISBN 978-84-7476-378-2
  • Little Britons: Financing Childcare Choice (Policy Exchange, 2008), with Karen Bradley, Emily Price and Louisa Mitchell. ISBN 9781906097219
  • Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital, 2011

Selected articles

  • Hakim, Catherine. "Developing a sociology for the twenty-first century: Preference Theory". British Journal of Sociology 49 (1998): 137–43.
  • Hakim, Catherine. "A New Approach to Explaining Fertility Patterns: Preference Theory". Population and Development Review 29 (2004): 349–374.
  • Hakim, Catherine, 'Women, careers, and work-life preferences', British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 34: 279-294, August 2006.
  • Hakim, Catherine, `Public morality versus personal choice: the failure of social attitude surveys', British Journal of Sociology, 54: 339-45, September 2003.
  • Hakim, Catherine, `Lifestyle preferences as determinants of women's differentiated labour market careers', Work and Occupations, 29: 428-459, November 2002.
  • Hakim, Catherine, `The politics of female diversity in the 21st century', pp. 191-227 in The Future of Gender (ed) J Browne, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  • Hakim, Catherine, `Sex differences in work-life balance goals', pp 55-79 in Work-Life Balance in the Twenty-First Century (ed) D Houston, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
  • Hakim, Catherine, `Lifestyle preferences versus patriarchal values: causal and non-causal attitudes', pp. 69-91 in Changing Life Patterns in Western Industrial Societies (eds) J Z Giele and E Holst, Oxford: Elsevier, January 2004.
  • Hakim, Catherine. "Erotic Capital". European Sociological Review, 26:499–518, 2010
  • Hakim, Catherine, 'Women's lifestyle preferences in the 21st century: Implications for family policy' in The Future of Motherhood in Europe (eds) J Schippers, G Beets and E te Velde, Dordrecht NL and Hingham MA: Springer, April 2011.

References

  1. ^ "Speakers". Why Workplace Flexibility Matters. http://www.workplaceflexibilitymatters.org/conf/htdocs/speakers.html. Retrieved 2 January 2011. 
  2. ^ Ladislav Rabusic and Beatrice-Elena Chromková Manea. Hakim's preference theory in the Czech context. Czech Demography, 2008, Vol. 2
  3. ^ a b Kate Spicer (17 April 2010). "Catherine Hakim: She’s counting up erotic capital". The Times. http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article7100751.ece. Retrieved 2 January 2011. 
  4. ^ Celia Walden (14 April 2010). "Erotic capital". The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/7588813/Erotic-capital.html. Retrieved 2 January 2011. 
  5. ^ Bettina Arndt (7 February 2003). "Hakim works on fertile ground". The Age. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/06/1044498913134.html. Retrieved 2 January 2011. 
  6. ^ a b "Who's who". London School of Economics. http://www2.lse.ac.uk/sociology/whoswho/visitingscholars.aspx#generated-subheading2. Retrieved 2 January 2011. 
  7. ^ "Profiles - Directors of the UK Data Archive". UK Data Archive. http://ukda40.data-archive.ac.uk/about/directors.asp. Retrieved 2 January 2011. 
  8. ^ Jack Grove (22 September 2011). "Honey Money not to LSE's Taste". TimesHigherEducation.co.uk. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417516&c=1. Retrieved 22 September 2011 2011. 

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Civic offices
Preceded by
Howard Newby		 Director of the ESRC Data Archive
1989–1990		 Succeeded by
Denise Lievesley