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.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/7588813/Erotic-capital.html Hakims forskning har hatt et stort politisk gjennomslag, blant annet i Australia.http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/06/1044498913134.html

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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