User:DTL808/Julia Adams (sociologist)

Julia Adams is a professor of Sociology at Yale University. She focuses on research which includes: gender and family, social theory/knowledge, modern European politics, and colonialism empires. Her most recent research (as of 2018) has to do with historical sociology of agency relations and modernity, representation of gender and race in academics including Wikipedia and academic digital platforms.

. [Early Life] Julia Adams is a professor of Sociology and conducts research in the areas of state building, gender and family, social theory and knowledge, early modern European politics, and colonialism and empire. Her current research focuses on the historical sociology of agency relations and modernity, and gender, race, and the representation of academic knowledge on Wikipedia and other digital platform.

[Career]  In an interview with MacMillan Report at Yale University in 2010, Adams' discusses her research regarding large scale forms of patriarchal politics and the historical sociology of history relations. She discusses with Wilkes her background research regarding the familial state and contradictions of agency in contemporary America. This background research was the development of her book, The Familial State focused on elite families in large scale political development in European countries. She found this research important because of scholarship and for the public to have a better understanding of the world around us. Scholarship, according to Adams', means patriarchal power in Twenty First century Inequality and Capitalism. By studying Holland’s renowned families, who were at the time both state-builders and merchant capitalists, during the  seventeenth century Dutch Golden Age, Adams discovered how the family patriarchs shaped the first great wave of European colonialism which led to the influence of European political development in modern ways