Catherine Hakim

Catherine Hakim (født 30. mai 1948) er en britisk sosiolog og seniorforsker ved London School of Economics. Hakims hovedinteresser er arbeidsliv, kvinners yrkesdeltagelse og forskningsmetode. Hun er best kjent for å ha utviklet preferanseteorien, og for å være kritisk til feministiske synspunkter på kvinners arbeid. Hakim har også utviklet en teori om erotisk kapital. Hakims forskning har hatt et stort politisk gjennomslag, blant annet i Australia.Hakim har vært avdelingsdirektør for forskning (Principal) i Arbeidsdepartementet i Storbritannia i ti år og direktør for ESRC Data Archive (tilsvarende NSD) 1989–1990. Hun har vært seniorforsker ved LSE siden 1990. Hun er medlem av redaksjonsrådene i European Sociological Review og International Sociology.
Hun er opprinnelig fra Midtøsten og kom til Storbritannia for kostskole som 16-åring.


== Utvalgte publikasjoner ==


=== Bøker ===
Little Britons: Financing Childcare Choice (Policy Exchange, 2008), with Karen Bradley, Emily Price and Louisa Mitchell. ISBN 9781906097219
Modelos de Familia en las Sociedades Modernas: Ideales y Realidades (Centro de Investigaciónes Sociológicas, 2005). ISBN 978-84-7476-378-2
Key Issues in Women’s Work (Glasshouse Press, 1996, 2004). ISBN 1904385168
Models of the Family in Modern Societies: Ideals and Realities (Ashgate, 2003). ISBN 0754644065
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
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
Secondary analysis in social research, London : Allen & Unwin, 1982, ISBN 0043120156, ISBN 0043120164


=== Utvalgte artikler ===
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.


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