Circles and Settings
, by Lopata, Helena ZnanieckaNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780791417676 | 0791417670
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 5/1/1994
Preface | |
Social Roles of American Women | |
Social Role as a Set of Social Relations | |
Role Strain | |
The Role of Cluster and Social Life Space | |
The Location of Social Roles in Social Systems | |
The Life Course of Role Involvements of American Women | |
Social Psychological Aspects of Role Involvement | |
Commitment | |
Summary | |
The Role of Wife | |
Traditional Times, Traditional Places | |
The Transitional Form of the Role of Wife | |
Class Differences | |
Working-Class Wives | |
Middle-Class Wives | |
The Two-Person Single Career | |
Middle-Class Black Wives | |
Upper-Class Wives | |
The Modem Form of the Role of Wife | |
Indices of Change | |
The Negotiated Marriage: Rights and Duties | |
The Life Course of the Role of Wife | |
The Social Psychology of Role Involvement | |
The Ex-Wife or Widow | |
Reentry into the Role of Wife | |
Summary | |
The Role of Mother | |
Preventing or Insuring the Role of Mother | |
Traditional Times, Traditional Places | |
Transitional and Modem Forms of the Role of Mother | |
The Life Course of the Role of Mother | |
Becoming a Mother | |
Traumatic Events in Becoming a Mother | |
Being a Mother | |
The Older Mother | |
Motherhood in Retrospect | |
Social-Class Variations in the Role of Mother | |
Mothers of the Underclass | |
Working-Class Mothers | |
Middle-Class Mothers | |
Mothers of the Upper Class | |
Other Variations in the Role of Mother | |
Raising Sons | |
The Role of Mother in Divorce and Widowhood | |
Mothers-in-Law | |
Stepmothers and Foster Mothers | |
Sociopsychological Aspects of Role Involvement | |
Summary | |
Social Roles in Kinship Networks | |
World Revolution in Kinship Salience? | |
The Transitional Form of Kin Networks | |
Kin Member and Kin Keeper | |
The Modem Form of Kinship Networks | |
Daughter | |
The Traditional Form of the Role of Daughter | |
The Transitional Form of the Role of Daughter | |
The Life Course of the Role of Daughter | |
The Dependent Daughter | |
The Adult Daughter of Aging Parents | |
The Modem Form of the Role of Daughter | |
The Role of Daughter-in-Law | |
Sister | |
Grandmother | |
Traditional Times, Traditional Places | |
Transitional and Modem Forms of the Role of Grandmother | |
The Social Psychology of Grandmothering | |
Summary | |
Occupation: Homemaker | |
Traditional Times, Traditional Places | |
The Transitional Form of the Role of Homemaker | |
Stereotypes | |
The Life Course of the Role of Homemaker | |
Becoming a Homemaker | |
The Expanding Circle | |
The Peak Stage | |
The Full-House Plateau | |
The Shrinking Circle | |
The Part-Time Homemaker | |
Homemaking and Household Composition | |
Sociopsychological Aspects of Role Involvement | |
Sentiments and Self-Images | |
The Homemaker and Her Home | |
The Homemaker as a Link Between Home and Society | |
The Modem Form of the Role of Homemaker | |
Summary | |
The Job: Settings and Circles | |
The Entrepreneurial or Self-Employed Woman | |
Working for Someone Else, The Role of Employee | |
Sociopsychological Aspects of Role Involvement | |
Settings: Home-Based Work | |
The Beneficiary's Territory | |
The Beneficiary's Home as the Setting | |
The Beneficiary's Job Setting | |
Organizational Settings | |
Factories | |
Men's Prisons | |
Long Distance Trucks | |
Stores, Restaurants, and Airplanes | |
Offices | |
Clerical Workers | |
Managers and Professionals | |
Multiple Settings | |
Summary | |
Social Roles in the Rest of the World | |
Student | |
An Example of the Effects of Schooling in Transitional Times | |
The Role of Student at Reentry | |
Friend | |
Same-Gender and Cross-Gender Friendships | |
Couple Companionate Friendship | |
Neighbor | |
The Transitional Form of the Role of Neighbor | |
The Modem Form of the Role of Neighbor | |
Roles in Communities | |
Member of Voluntary Associations | |
Member in Reform or Revolutionary Movements | |
Summary | |
Life Spaces and Self-Concepts | |
Role Conflict | |
Role Conflict within the Family Institution | |
Conflict between Family Roles and Those in Other Institutional Dimensions | |
Societal Solutions to Role Conflicts of Women | |
Role-Conflict Solutions by Women | |
The Complexity of Social Life Spaces | |
Sociopsychological Aspects of Social Life Spaces | |
Conclusions | |
Notes | |
References | |
Index | |
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