Nuffield College

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Sociology Group

Nuffield College has the largest number of sociologists of any college in Oxford, including the two University Chairs in Sociology. The Sociology Group at Nuffield lies at the heart of Sociology in Oxford. In addition to sociologists, the Sociology Group in Nuffield includes social statisticians, demographers, and social historians. The principal specialities of the Nuffield sociologists are analytical sociology, medical sociology, political sociology, social networks, social stratification, the sociology of labour markets, family sociology, pro-social behaviour, and sociology of religion. The group is particularly strong in the development and empirical testing of middle-range social-science theories.

Contact information

Chair: Nan Dirk de Graaf
Administrator: Lin Sorrell
Admissions: College Office

Seminars

Nuffield College Seminars

Department of Sociology

Working papers

Department of Sociology Working Papers

Economic and Social History Working Papers

Group members

Fellows

Bob Allen History of economic growth and inequality; environmental history; technological change; public policy.

Francesco Billari Demography; life course; family and fertility; comparative social research; social statistics; agent-based modelling.

Erzsebet Bukodi Social mobility, educational inequalities, life-course research, transition to adulthood, cross-national comparative research.

Nan Dirk de Graaf Political sociology; Class, educational attainment & health; Cultural sociology; Religion and secularization; Pro-social behaviour.

Geoff Evans Political sociology: class, inequality, & politics; measuring social attitudes & perceptions; ethno-political divisions; transitions to democracy.

Ray Fitzpatrick Medical sociology. Interests include the evaluation of health care, the measurement of patient satisfaction, health status and quality of life.

Duncan Gallie Research on the quality of work; attitudes to social inequality; the social implications of unemployment.

Diego Gambetta Analytical Sociology, Mafias, Signalling Theory and Applications, Trust and Mimicry, Violent Extremists.

Jan O. Jonsson Social stratification in general; educational inequality; social mobility; ethnic inequality and integration; poverty; child wellbeing.

Colin Mills Social inequality, social mobility, social demography, historical social mobility, social measurement.

Christiaan Monden Family sociology; social demography; social inequalities; social variations in health and mortality.

Tom Snijders Statistical inference for network dynamics; Exponential random graph models; joint modelling of social influence and social selection.