Oxford Sociology Texts

Reading texts of MSc and MPhil courses, Department of Sociology, Oxford University, 2019/2020.

The article is posted on my website (in Chinese) and includes introductions of each course and a summary at the end which omitted here.

Core

1. Sociological Analysis

Elster, J. (2015) Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press.
Collins, R. (1994) Four Sociological Traditions, Oxford University Press.

2. Research Method

2.1 Qualitative Methods

Arskey, H & P. Knight (1996) Interviewing for Social Scientists, Sage.
Burgess, R. (1984) In the Field, Routledge.
King, G., R.O. Keohane and S. Verba (1994) Designing Social Inquiry: scientific inference in qualitative research. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Krippendorff, K. (2004) Content Analysis, second ed. Sage.
Whyte, W. F. ([1943]1993) Street corner society: the social structure of an Italian slum. 4th Edition Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press.

2.2 Statistical Methods

Agresti, A. and B. Finlay (1997/2009/2017) Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences, Pearson (3rd, 4th, or 5th edition; any will do).
Hamilton, L.C. (2013) Statistics with Stata, Version 12, 8th Edition. Cengage

2.3 Research Design

King, G., R. Keohane and S. Verba (1994) Designing Social Inquiry, Princeton University Press.
Rick H. Hoyle, Charles M. Judd, Monica J Harris. 2001. Research Methods in Social Relations, (International Edition), Fort Worth, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 7th edition. 🈚️
Elster, J. 1989. Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press.

3. Demographic Analysis

Livi Bacci, M. (2012) A Concise History of World Population, Wiley-Blackwell.
Wachter, K.W. (2014) Essential Demographic Methods, Harvard University Press.
Preston, S.H, P. Heuveline and M. Guillot (2001) Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes, Blackwell Publishers
A series of articles detailed in the syllabus.

4. Life Course Research

Mayer, K. (2009). New directions in life course research. Annual Reviews in Sociology. 35: 413-433.
Crosnoe, R. & G.H. Elder Jr. (2015). Life Course: Sociological Aspects, J. Wright (Ed.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition. London: Elsevier. 🈚️
Billari, F.C. (2001) The Analysis of Early Life Courses: Complex Descriptions of the Transition to Adulthood, Journal of Population Research, 18(2): 119-142.
Blossfeld, H-P, and S Drobnic. (2001). "Theoretical perspectives on couples’ careers." pp. 16-50 in Careers of couples in contemporary societies: from male breadwinner to dual-earner families, edited by H-P Blossfeld and S Drobnic. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 🈚️

5. Replication Project

Key

Garret Christensen, Jeremy Freese, Edward Miguel (2019), Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research, 1st Edition, University of California Press, ISBN: 9780520296954. 🈚️（only chap 1）

Gerber and Malhotra (2008), Publication Bias in Empirical Sociological Research: Do Arbitrary Significance Levels Distort Published Results? Sociological Methods and Research, 37, 1, 3-30.
John Ionnidis (2005), Why Most Published Research Findings are False, Plos Medicine, 2, 8.
Gary King (2006), Publication, Publication, PS: Political Science and Politics, 39, 1, 119-125.
Edward Leamer (1983), Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics, The American Economic Review, 73, 1, 31- 43.
Freese and Peterson (2017), Replication in Social Science, Annual Review of Sociology, 43, 1, 147-165.

Option

1. Advanced Quantitative Methods

Key

Joshua D. Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke, Mostly Harmless Econometrics. Princeton University Press, 2009 [e-book, available from Bodleian through SOLO].
Carina Mood. (2010) ‘Logistic Regression: Why We Cannot Do What We Think We Can Do, and What We Can Do About It’, European Sociological Review 26 : 67–82.
Paul D. Allison, Fixed Effect Regression Models. Sage, 2009 [e-book, available from Bodleian through SOLO].
Charles N. Halaby, ‘Panel models in sociological research: theory into practice’, Annual Review of Sociology, 30:507-544, 2009.

Stata

Long, J. Scott, & Freese, Jeremy. (2014). Regression Models for Categorical Dependent Variables Using Stata (3rd ed.). College Station, TX: Stata Press.
Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia, & Skrondal, Anders. (2012). Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata. Volume I: Continuous Responses (3rd ed.). College Station, TX: Stata Press.
Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia, & Skrondal, Anders. (2012). Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata. Volume II: Categorical Responses, Counts, and Survival (3rd ed.). College Station, TX: Stata Press. 🈚️

Others

Paul D. Allison (2004). ‘Using panel data to estimate the effects of events’, Sociological Methods and Research, 23(2):174-199.
Douglas C. Montgomery, Elizabeth A. Peck and G Geoffrey Vining. (2012). Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis. John Wiley & Sons [e-book, available from Bodleian through SOLO].
Richard Breen et. al. (2014). ‘Correlations and Nonlinear Probability Models’, Sociological Methods & Research 43: 571- 605.
Mark L. Bryan and Stephen P. Jenkins. (2016). ‘Multilevel Modelling of Country Effects: A Cautionary Tale’. European Sociological Review, 32(1): 3–22.

2. Causality: Methods of Causal Inference in the Social Sciences

Week 1: Review of Probability
Week 2: Review of Least Squares regression and properties of estimators
Week 3: The counterfactual model of causality, the fundamental problem of causality, randomized control trials.
Week 4: Matching estimators; regression and propensity scores
Week 5: Inverse probability of treatment weighting; robustness analysis
Week 6: Instrumental variables; natural experiments
Week 7: Control functions
Week 8: Regression discontinuity; fixed effects; difference in difference models

Fox, John. 2008. A Mathematical Primer for Social Statistics. QASS 159, Sage.
Morgan, Stephen L. and Christopher Winship. 2014. Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research (2nd edition), Cambridge University Press.
Angrist, Joshua and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. 2009. Mostly Harmless Econometrics. Princeton University Press.

3. Online Social Networks

Week 1. Introduction

E (Essential)

Fielding, N. G., Lee, R. M., & Blank, G. (Eds.). (2008). The SAGE handbook of online research methods. Sage.
- Online Social Networks: Concepts for Data Collection. pp. 241-258.
Harrington, H. A., Beguerisse-Díaz, M., Rombach, M. P., Keating, L. M., & Porter, M. A. (2013). Commentary: Teach network science to teenagers. Network science, 1(2), 226-247.
Borgatti, S. P., Everett, M. G., & Johnson, J. C. (2018). Analyzing social networks. Sage.
- Chapters 1-2.

R (Recommended)

Granovetter, M. S. (1977). The strength of weak ties. In Social networks (pp. 347-367). Academic Press.
Wellman, B., & Berkowitz, S. D. (Eds.). (1988). Social structures: A network approach (Vol. 2). CUP Archive.
- Structural Analysis: From Method and Metaphor to Theory and Substance. pp. 19-61.
Hidalgo, C. A. (2016). Disconnected, fragmented, or united? a trans-disciplinary review of network science. Applied Network Science, 1(1), 6.
Butts, C. T. (2008). Social network analysis: A methodological introduction. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 11(1), 13-41.
Hennig, M., Brandes, U., Pfeffer, J., & Mergel, I. (2012). Studying social networks: A guide to empirical research. Campus Verlag.
- Chapter 1. Pp 13-26. 🈚️

Week 2. Ego-centred network data collection

Crossley, N., Bellotti, E., Edwards, G., Everett, M. G., Koskinen, J., & Tranmer, M. (2015). Social network analysis for ego-nets: Social network analysis for actor-centred networks. Sage. 🈚️
- Chapter 3. Pp 44-75.
Hogan, B., Melville, J. R., Phillips II, G. L., Janulis, P., Contractor, N., Mustanski, B. S., & Birkett, M. (2016, May). Evaluating the paper-to-screen translation of participant-aided sociograms with high-risk participants. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 5360-5371). ACM.
Dunbar, R. I. (2016). Do online social media cut through the constraints that limit the size of offline social networks?. Royal Society Open Science, 3(1), 150292.

Reyes, C. (2016). Eliciting data on social relationships: The use of hand-drawn network maps in tracing the perception of digitally mediated social ties. International Review of Social Research, 6(4), 256-268.
Hogan, B. (2016). Social media giveth, social media taketh away: Facebook, friendships, and APIs. International Journal of Communication, Forthcoming.
Van Duijn, M. A., Van Busschbach, J. T., & Snijders, T. A. (1999). Multilevel analysis of personal networks as dependent variables. Social networks, 21(2), 187-210.
Giannella, E., & Fischer, C. S. (2016). An inductive typology of egocentric networks. Social Networks, 47, 15-23.

Week 3. Sociocentric and partial data collection

Borgatti, S. P., Everett, M. G., & Johnson, J. C. (2018). Analyzing social networks. Sage.
- Chapters 3-4.
Ugander, J., Karrer, B., Backstrom, L., & Marlow, C. (2011). The anatomy of the facebook social graph. arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.4503.
- 1-17
Hodas, N. O., Kooti, F., & Lerman, K. (2013, June). Friendship paradox redux: Your friends are more interesting than you. In Seventh International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.

Feld, S. L. (1991). Why your friends have more friends than you do. American Journal of Sociology, 96(6), 1464-1477.
Travers, J., & Milgram, S. (1977). An experimental study of the small world problem. In Social Networks (pp. 179-197). Academic Press.
de Sola Pool, I., & Kochen, M. (1978). Contacts and influence. I, 1(1), 5-51.

Week 4. Dyads and homophily

Rivera, M. T., Soderstrom, S. B., & Uzzi, B. (2010). Dynamics of dyads in social networks: Assortative, relational, and proximity mechanisms. Annual Review of Sociology, 36, 91-115.
Bakshy, E., Messing, S., & Adamic, L. A. (2015). Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook. Science, 348(6239), 1130-1132.
McPherson, M., Smith-Lovin, L., & Cook, J. M. (2001). Birds of a feather: Homophily in social networks. Annual review of sociology, 27(1), 415-444.
Crossley, N., Bellotti, E., Edwards, G., Everett, M. G., Koskinen, J., & Tranmer, M. (2015). Social network analysis for ego-nets: Social network analysis for actor-centred networks. Sage. 🈚️
- Chapter 4. Pp. 76-104.

Gould, R. V., & Fernandez, R. M. (1989). Structures of mediation: A formal approach to brokerage in transaction networks. Sociological methodology, 89-126.
Mizruchi, M. S., & Marquis, C. (2006). Egocentric, sociocentric, or dyadic?: Identifying the appropriate level of analysis in the study of organizational networks. Social Networks, 28(3), 187-208.
Van Alstyne, M., & Brynjolfsson, E. (2005). Global village or cyber-balkans? Modeling and measuring the integration of electronic communities. Management Science, 51(6), 851-868.
Aral, S., & Van Alstyne, M. (2011). The diversity-bandwidth trade-off. American Journal of Sociology, 117(1), 90-171.
Feld, S. L. (1982). Social structural determinants of similarity among associates. American sociological review, 797-801.

Week 5: BREAK

Week 6. Communities and clusters

Smith, M. A., Rainie, L., Shneiderman, B., & Himelboim, I. (2014). Mapping Twitter topic networks: From polarized crowds to community clusters. Pew Research Center, 20, 1-56.
Porter, M. A., Onnela, J. P., & Mucha, P. J. (2009). Communities in networks. Notices of the AMS, 56(9), 1082-1097.
Hric, D., Darst, R. K., & Fortunato, S. (2014). Community detection in networks: Structural communities versus ground truth. Physical Review E, 90(6), 062805.

Newman, M. E. (2006). Modularity and community structure in networks. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 103(23), 8577-8582.
Gest, S. D., Moody, J., Rulison, K. L., Gest, S. D., Moody, J., & Rulison, K. L. (2007). Density or distinction? The roles of data structure and group detection methods in describing adolescent peer groups. Journal of Social Structure, 8, 1-27.
Brooks, B., Hogan, B., Ellison, N., Lampe, C., & Vitak, J. (2014). Assessing structural correlates to social capital in Facebook ego networks. Social Networks, 38, 1-15.
Kossinets, G., & Watts, D. J. (2006). Empirical analysis of an evolving social network. science, 311(5757), 88-90.
Yang, J., & Leskovec, J. (2015). Defining and evaluating network communities based on ground-truth. Knowledge and Information Systems, 42(1), 181-213.
Fortunato, S. (2010). Community detection in graphs. Physics reports, 486(3-5), 75-174.

Week 7. Dynamic and Generative models

Lusher, D., Koskinen, J., & Robins, G. (Eds.). (2013). Exponential random graph models for social networks: Theory, methods, and applications. Cambridge University Press.
- Chapters 2-5. Pp 9-36.
Wimmer, A., & Lewis, K. (2010). Beyond and below racial homophily: ERG models of a friendship network documented on Facebook. American Journal of Sociology, 116(2), 583-642.

Snijders, T. A., Van de Bunt, G. G., & Steglich, C. E. (2010). Introduction to stochastic actor-based models for network dynamics. Social networks, 32(1), 44-60.
Sloan, Luke, and Anabel Quan-Haase, eds. The SAGE handbook of social media research methods. Sage, 2017.
- Chapter 15: Scale, Time, and Activity Patterns: Advanced Methods for the Analysis of Online Networks. Pp. 259–276.
Lewis, K., Gonzalez, M., & Kaufman, J. (2012). Social selection and peer influence in an online social network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(1), 68-72.

Week 8. Network cognition and visualization

Freeman, L. C. (2000). Visualizing social networks. Journal of social structure, 1(1), 4.
Lee, A., & Archambault, D. (2016, May). Communities Found by Users--not Algorithms: Comparing Human and Algorithmically Generated Communities. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2396-2400). ACM.
Brashears, M. E. (2013). Humans use compression heuristics to improve the recall of social networks. Scientific reports, 3, 1513.
Welser, H. T., Gleave, E., Fisher, D., & Smith, M. (2007). Visualizing the signatures of social roles in online discussion groups. Journal of social structure, 8(2), 1-32.

Fruchterman, T. M., & Reingold, E. M. (1991). Graph drawing by force‐directed placement. Software: Practice and experience, 21(11), 1129-1164.
Purchase, H. C., Pilcher, C., & Plimmer, B. (2010). Graph drawing aesthetics—created by users, not algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18(1), 81-92.
Borgatti, S. P., Everett, M. G., & Johnson, J. C. (2018). Analyzing social networks. Sage.
- Chapter 7.
McGrath, C., Blythe, J., & Krackhardt, D. (1997). The effect of spatial arrangement on judgments and errors in interpreting graphs. Social networks, 19(3), 223-242.
Noack, A. (2009). Modularity clustering is force-directed layout. Physical Review E, 79(2), 026102.
Kieffer, S., Dwyer, T., Marriott, K., & Wybrow, M. (2015). Hola: Human-like orthogonal network layout. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 22(1), 349-358.

Week 9. Theorizing beyond the network

Emirbayer, M. (1997). Manifesto for a relational sociology. American journal of sociology, 103(2), 281-317.
Healy, K. (2015). The performativity of networks. European Journal of Sociology/Archives Européennes de Sociologie, 56(2), 175-205.
Graham, M., & Dutton, W. H. (Eds.). (2019). Society and the internet: How networks of information and communication are changing our lives. Oxford University Press.
- The relational self-portrait: Selfies meet social networks. Pp 53-66.

Abbott, A. (1988). Transcending general linear reality. Sociological theory, 169-186.
Latour, B., Jensen, P., Venturini, T., Grauwin, S., & Boullier, D. (2012). ‘The whole is always smaller than its parts’. A digital test of Gabriel Tarde’s monads. The British journal of sociology, 63(4), 590-615.
Martin, J. L. (2010). Life's a beach but you’re an ant, and other unwelcome news for the sociology of culture. Poetics, 38(2), 229-244.
Pachucki, M. A., & Breiger, R. L. (2010). Cultural holes: Beyond relationality in social networks and culture. Annual review of sociology, 36, 205-224.

4. Political and Civil Conflict

Kalyvas, Stathis (2006) The Logic of Violence in Civil War. Cambridge University Press
Kapuscinski, R. (2007). Another day of life. Vintage.
Petersen, Roger D. (2002) Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Tilly, Charles (2003) The Politics of Collective Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Weinstein Jeremy (2006). Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

5. Political Sociology

Clemens, Elizabeth S. (2016) What is Political Sociology? Cambridge: Polity Press. 🈚️
Crouch, Colin (1999) Social Change in Western Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 🈚️
Dalton, Russell (2014). Citizen Politics: Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies (6th edition). Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press. 🈚️
Dalton, Russell Leighley (2007) The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

6. Social Movements

Tilly, C and S Tarrow. (2015) Contentious Politics, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Crossley, N. (2002) Making Sense of Social Movements, Buckingham: Open University Press.
Opp, K-D. (2009) Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements: A Multidisciplinary Introduction, Critique, and Synthesis, Abingdon: Routledge.
Staggenborg, S. (2012) Social Movements, 2nd. ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press. 🈚️

7. Social Stratification

Arrow, K., S. Bowles and S. Darlauf, eds. (2000) Meritocracy and Economic Inequality, Princeton University Press. 🈚️
Bowles, S., H. Ginits and M. Osborne Groves, eds. (2005) Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success, Princeton University Press.
Wright, E.O. ed. (2005) Approaches to Class Analysis, Cambridge University Press.
Devlin, B. et al. eds. (1997) Intelligence, Genes and Success, Copernicus.
Grusky, D.B. ed. (2008) Social Stratification, 3nd ed, Westview Press.
Goldthorpe, J.H. (1987) Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain, 2nd ed, Clarendon Press.
- Goldthorpe's lecture Video
Marshall, G., A. Swift and S. Roberts (1997) Against the Odds? Oxford University Press.
Firebaugh, G. (2003) The New Geography of Global Income Inequality, Harvard University Press. 🈚️

8. Sociology of China

Goodman, D (2014) Class in Contemporary China, Polity Press.
Jacka, T, A. Kipnis and S. Sargeson (2013) Contemporary China: Society and Social Change, Cambridge University Press. 🈚️
Gries, P.H and S. Rosen, eds. (2004) State and Society in 21st Century China: Crisis, Contention and Legitimation. London: Routledge.
Chan, A, R Madsen, and J Unger. (2009). Chen village: Revolution to globalization. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press 🈚️
Perry, E.J. and M. Selden, eds. (2003) Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance, London: Routledge.
Gold, T, D Guthrie, and D Wank, eds. (2002). Social connections in China: Institutions, culture, and the changing nature of guanxi. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press
Walder, A G. (1986). Communist neo-traditionalism: Work and authority in Chinese industry. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press

9. Sociology of Human Rights

M Frezzo, The Sociology of Human Rights 🈚️
D Levy, Sovereignty Transformed: The Sociology of Human Rights
G Sjoberg et al “A Sociology of Human Rights” in Social Problems
M Delflen & S Chicoine, “The Sociological Discourse on Human Rights: Lessons from the Sociology of Law” in Development and Society
T Vaugn & G Sjoberg, “Human Rights Theory and the Classical Sociological Tradition” in Sociological Theory in Transformation 🈚️
TR Young, The Sociology of Human Rights, Humanity, and Society
Woodiweiss, “Taking the Sociology of Human Rights Seriously” in Interpreting Human Rights
B Turner, “Outline of a Theory of Human Rights Sociology” in Sociology
B Turner, “Sociology of Human Rights” in Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law
M Somers & C Roberts, “Toward a New Sociology of Rights,” in Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences
M Buraway, “Introduction: A Public Sociology for Human Rights,” in Public Sociology Reader
RW Connel “Sociology and Human Rights” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 🈚️
J Hagan & R Levi, “Justiciability as Field Effect: When Sociology Meets Human Rights” in Sociological Forum
L Morris “Sociology and Rights: An Emergent Field” in Rights
R Fine, Towards a Sociology of Human Rights 🈚️
P Hynes et al, “Sociology and Human Rights” in International Journal of Human Rights
K Nash, The Political Sociology of Human Rights

10. Sociology of Latin America

[none]

11. Sociology of Japan

Sugimoto, Y. An introduction to Japanese society, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Kariya, T. Education Reform and Social Class in Japan, Routledge, 2013. 🈚️
Brinton, C. M., Lost in Transition, Cambridge University Press, 2010. 🈚️
Mouer, R. and Kawanishi, H. A Sociology of Work in Japan, 2005.
Schoppa, L. J. Race for the exits: the unraveling of Japan's system of social protection, Ithaca, N.Y. ; London, Cornell University Press, 2006. 🈚️
Ishida H. and Slater D eds. Social Class in Contemporary Japan, Routledge, 2010.
Yoichi F. and Kushner B. eds. Examining Japan’s lost decades, Routledge, 2015.*

12. Sociology of Mafias

Previews

Pistone, J.D. and R. Woodley. Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia, 1988.
Arlacchi, P. Men of Dishonor. 1992.
Maas, P. Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano’s Story of Life in the Mafia, 1997.
Escobar, R. Escobar. 2009. 🈚️
Leeson, The Invisible Hook. 2009.
Poulsen, K. Kingpin. 2011.
Glenny, M. Nemesis. 2015.

Pre-course Viewings

Mean Steets; The Godfathers: Parts One and Two; Goodfellas; Casino; Donnie Brasco; Narcos TV Series; Cartel Land (documentary).

Key texts

Gambetta, D. 1993. The Sicilian Mafia. Harvard University Press.
Varese, F. 2017. Mafia Life. Profile and OUP.
Some key papers are collected in: Varese, F. (ed.) 2010. Organized Crime. Critical Concepts in Criminology, Routledge, 2010. 🈚️

13. Sociology of the Family

Bergstrom, T.C. (1997) A survey of theories of the family. In: Rosenzweig, M.R. & O. Stark (Eds). Handbook of Population and Family Economics. Elsevier Science.
Cherlin, A. (2009) The marriage-go-round. Alfred Knopf.
Esping-Andersen, G. (2009) The Incomplete revolution: Adapting welfare states to women's new roles. 🈚️
McLanahan, S. (2004). Diverging destinies: How children are faring under the second demographic transition. Demography 41: 607–27.
Raymo, J. M., Park, H., Xie, Y., & Yeung, W. J. J. (2015) Marriage and family in East Asia: Continuity and change. Annual Review of Sociology 41: 471-492.
Thomson, E. (2014) Family complexity in Europe. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 654:245-58.
Zaidi, B. & Morgan, S.P. (2017) The Second Demographic Transition Theory: A Review and Appraisal. Annual Review of Sociology 43: 473-492.
Cohen, P. N. (2019). The Coming Divorce Decline. Socius 5:1-6.

14. Sociogenomics

Belsky, D. W., & Israel, S. (2014). Integrating genetics and social science: genetic risk scores. Biodemography and Social Biology, 60(2), 137–55.
Belsky, Daniel W., et al. (2016): The genetics of success: How single- nucleotide polymorphisms associated with educational attainment relate to life-course development. Psychological Science 27.7: 957-972.
Cesarini, D., & Visscher, P. M. (2017). Genetics and educational attainment. Npj Science of Learning, 2(1), 4.
Courtiol, A., Tropf, F. C., & Mills, M. C. (2016). When genes and environment disagree: Making sense of trends in recent human evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(28), 7693–7695.
Conley, D. (2009). The promise and challenges of incorporating genetic data into longitudinal social science surveys and research. Biodemography and Social Biology, 55(2), 238–251.
Conley, D., et al. (2015). Is the Effect of Parental Education on Offspring Biased or Moderated by Genotype? Sociological Science, 2, 82–105.
Conley, D., & Fletcher, J. (2017). Genome Factor. What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History and the Future. Princeton University Press.
Domingue, B. W., Fletcher, J., Conley, D., & Boardman, J. D. (2014). Genetic and educational assortative mating among US adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(22), 7996–8000.
Euesden, Jack, Cathryn M. Lewis, and Paul F. O’Reilly (2014). PRSice: polygenic risk score software. Bioinformatics 31.9: 1466-1468.
Harmon, A. (2018). Why White Supremacists are Chugging Milk (and Why Geneticists are Alarmed). The New York Times, Oct. 17, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/ white-supremacists-science-dna.html
Khan, R. & D. Mittelman. (2018). Consumer genomics will change your life, whether you get tested or not, Genome Biology, 19: 120.
Mehta, D., Tropf, F. C., et al. (2016). Evidence for Genetic Overlap Between Schizophrenia and Age at First Birth in Women. JAMA Psychiatry, 73(5), 497–505.
Mills, M. C., & Tropf, F. C. (2016). The Biodemography of Fertility: A Review and Future Research Frontiers. Kölner Zeitschrift Für Soziologie Und Sozialpsychologie, 55, 397–424.
Mills, M.C. (2019). How do genes affect same- sex behaviour? Science, 365: 869-870.
Mills, M.C. & F.C. Tropf (2020). Sociology, Genetics and the Coming of Age of Sociogenomics. Annual Review of Sociology (forthcoming, available upon request). 🈚️
Mills, M.C. et al. (2020). “Ethical Issues in Genomics Research,” pp. 359-376, An Introduction to Applied Statistical Genetic Analysis. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 🈚️
Mills, M.C. & C. Rahal (2019). A scientometric review of genome-wide association studies, Communications Biology, 2: 10.1038/s42003- 018-0261-x.
Neale, M. C., & Cardon, L. R. (1992). Methodology for genetic studies of twins and families. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Okbay, A., et al. (2016). Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment. Nature, 533(7604), 539– 542.
Plomin, R. & S. von Stumm. (2018). The new genetics of intelligence, Nature Review Genetics, 19, 148-159.
Rietveld, C. A., et al. (2013). Molecular genetics and subjective well-being. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(24), 9692–9697.
Torkamani, N.E et al. (2018). The personal and clinical use of polygenic risk scores. Nature Review Genetics, 19, 582-590.
Tropf, F. C., Stulp, G., Barban, N., Visscher, P., Yang, J., Snieder, H., & Mills, M. C. (2015). Human fertility, molecular genetics, and natural selection in modern societies. PloS One, 10(6), e0126821.
Tropf, F. C., Barban, N., Mills, M. C., Snieder, H., & Mandemakers, J. J. (2015). Genetic influence on age at first birth of female twins born in the UK, 1919-68. Population Studies, 69(2), 129–145.
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