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8Complicating Patriarchy: Gender Beliefs of Muslim Facebook Users in the Middle East, North Africa, and South AsiaGender and Society 37 (1): 91-123. 2023.Western stereotypes often characterize gender relations in Muslim-majority societies as uniformly traditional and patriarchal. Underlying this imagery is a unidimensional understanding of gender ideology as moving along a single traditional-to-egalitarian continuum. In this study, we interrogate these assumptions by exploring variability across and within Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian (MENASA) societies in beliefs related to two regionally salient gender principles: women’s chas…Read more
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11Love in the Middle East: The contradictions of romance in the Facebook WorldCritical Research on Religion 4 (3): 229-258. 2016.Romantic love is a social fact in the Muslim world. It is also a gender politics impinging on religious and patriarchal understandings of female modesty and agency. This paper analyzes the rise of love as a basis of mate selection in a number of Muslim-majority countries: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, Tunisia, and Turkey where we have conducted Web-based anonymous surveys of Facebook users. Young people increasingly want love in their married lives, but they and the communities in w…Read more
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35Private and social wage expansion in the advanced market economiesTheory and Society 15 (1): 193-222. 1986.
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11The gods of institutional life: Weber’s value spheres and the practice of polytheismCritical Research on Religion 1 (1): 15-24. 2013.Weber's theory of value spheres outlines a project of institutional polytheism, each ordered around a ‘god’. This suggests not only that social theory can build a religious sociology, but that a theory of institutions must be an exercise in comparative religions. Weber's comparative sociology of religions, however, does not align with his theory of value spheres in terms of his distinction between polytheism and monotheism, transcendence and immanence, salvation and mysticism, being possessed an…Read more
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8Critical theory, authoritarianism, and the politics of lipstick from the Weimar Republic to the contemporary Middle EastCritical Research on Religion 6 (3): 243-268. 2018.In 2012–13, we signed up for Facebook in seven Middle East and North Africa countries and used Facebook advertisements to encourage young people to participate in our survey. Nearly 18,000 individuals responded. Some of the questions in our survey dealing with attitudes about women’s work and cosmetics were adopted from a survey conducted by the Frankfurt School in 1929 in Germany. The German survey had shown that a great number of men, irrespective of their political affiliation harbored highly…Read more
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44Theorizing the institution: foundations, duality, and data (review)Theory and Society 37 (5): 421-426. 2008.Although a central construct for sociologists, the concept of institution continues to elude clear and full specification. One reason for this lack of clarity is that about 50 years ago empirical researchers in the field of sociology turned their gaze downward, away from macro-sociological constructs in order to focus their attention on middle-range empirical projects. It took almost 20 years for the concept of the institution to work its back onto the empirical research agenda of mainstream soc…Read more
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63Nations, parties, and participation: A critique of political sociology (review)Theory and Society 1 (3): 307-328. 1974.
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8Nowhere: Space, Time, and ModernityUniversity of California Press. 1994.The fall of the Berlin wall, the uprising at Tiananmen Square, the war in the Persian Gulf, the conflict in Bosnia—such events have been fundamentally affected by modern technology. As we become instant spectators of war, famine, and revolution, time and space assume new global meanings. This provocative volume presents an eclectic group of contributors who attempt to make sense of the "now" and the "here" that define the modern age. The essays, by anthropologists, religionists, geographers, lin…Read more
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34The institutional logics of love: measuring intimate lifeTheory and Society 43 (3-4): 333-370. 2014.
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1Corporate Power and Urban Growth: The Case of Urban RenewalPolitics and Society 10 (2): 203-224. 1980.
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
Areas of Interest
Value Theory |