Professor Jonathan Israel Gershuny FBA

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Education and Awards Professor, Department of Sociology, Oxford University and Professorial Fellow, St Hugh’s College, Oxford BSc Loughborough, MSc Strathclyde, DPhil Sussex Fellow of the British Academy 2002 Silver Medal of the Market Research Society 1986 Responsibilities Chair of Sociology, Social Statistics and Demography Section (S4) of the British Academy Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, Oxford University Research Interests Analysis of narrative datasets (life and work histories, time use diaries) Interconnections between household organisation, labour force participation, and household formation/dissolution Relationship between individual-level behaviour and socio-economic structure Seleted Publications Changing Times: Work and Leisure in Post-industrial Societies Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000 (ISBN: 0-19-828787-9). Social Innovation and the Division of Labour, Oxford Library of Political Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983 (also in Swedish and Japanese translations) (ISBN: 0-19-874130-8). After Industrial Society? London: Macmillan, New York: Humanities Press, 1978 (ISBN: 0-391-00837-4). (Also in German as Die Okonomie der Nachindustriellen Gesellschaft, Frankfurt: Campus, 1981, and in Italian translation by Edizioni di Comunita, 1985). “Web-use and Net-nerds: A Neo-Functionalist Analysis of the Impact of Information Technology in the Home” Social Forces 82 (1) 2003 pp 139-166. "L’economie politique du temps" Futuribles, 2003: pp 285-301. “Domestic Equipment Does Not Increase Domestic Work: a response to Bittman, Rice and Wajcman”. British Journal of Sociology, 55(3) , 2004, pp 425-431. “Exit Voice and Suffering: do couples adapt to changing employment patterns?” Journal of Marriage and the Family 67 (August 2005):656-665 (with M Bittman and J Brice). Curriculum Vitae October 2006