Sociology of Families qualifying exam reading list (Sarah Garrett, Sociology)

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[edit] Example of a Reading List for the "Sociology of Families"

Based on a qualifying exam reading list of Sarah Garrett (Sociology), Fall 2007.

[edit] PART I: Theoretical Perspectives

A. Overview

Cheal, David. (1991) Family and the State of Theory. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

Johnson-Hanks, Jennifer. 2002. “On the limits of the life cycle in ethnography: Toward a theory of vital conjectures.” American Anthropologist 104(3): 865-880.

Mintz, Steven and Susan Kellogg. Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Life. New York, Free Press, 1988.

Morgan, D.H.J. (1975) Social Theory and the Family. Routledge and Kegan Paul: Boston. Introduction

Arlene S. Skolnick, “The Life Course Revolution,” from A.S. Skolnick, Embattled Paradise. Basic Books, 1991.

Thorne, Barrie with Marilyn Yalom, eds. (1992) Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions. Boston: Northeastern University Press. -“Feminism and the Family: Two Decades of Thought,” Barrie Thorne, pp. 3-30. -“Is There Family? New Anthropological Views,” Collier, Jane, Michelle Rosaldo, and Sylvia Yanagisako, pp. 31-48. -“Family and Class in Contemporary America: Notes Toward an Understanding of Ideology,” Rayna Rapp, pp. 49-70.

B. Functionalist Perspective

Parsons, Talcott. (1955) “Chapter 1” & “Conclusion” of Family, Socialization and the Interaction Process. Free Press: Glencoe, IL.

Smelser Neil. (1968) “Sociological History: The Industrial Revolution and the British Working Class Family,” in Essays in Sociological Explanation. Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

C. Psychoanalytic Perspective

Benjamin, Jessica. 1988. The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination. New York: Pantheon.

Chodorow, Nancy. (1978) The Reproduction of Mothering. University of California Press: Berkeley, CA.

Lorber, Judith, Rose Coser and Alice Rossi. (1981). “On the Reproduction of Mothering: A Methodological Debate,” Signs 6:3.

Segura, Denise and Jennifer Pierce. (1991) “Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality: Chodorow, Familism, and Psychoanalytic Sociology Revisited,” Signs 19:1.

Steedman, C.K. 1987. Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives. Rutgers University Press.

D. Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

Berger, Peter L. and Hansgried Kellner. (1970) “Marriage and the Construction of Reality,” in Hans Peter Dreitzel, ed. Patterns of Communicative Behavior. Macmillan: London.

Gerson, Kathleen. (1985) “Chapter 2” of Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood. University of California Press: Berkeley, CA.

Gubrium, Jaber F. and James A. Holstein. (1987) “The Private Image: Experiential Location and Method in Family Studies,” Journal of Marriage and the Family 49, pp. 773-786.

E. Structural Perspective

Dizard, Jan, and Howard Gadlin. 1990. The Minimal Family. Amherst: University of Massachusetts.

Engels, Friederich. (1978) “The Origins of Family, Private Property and the State,” in Robert Tucker, ed. The Marx-Engels Reader. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, p. 731-760.

Hartmann, Heidi. (1981) “The Family as a Locus of Gender, Class and Political Struggle: The Example of Housework,” Signs 6:31, pp. 366-394.

Smith Dorothy. (1977) “Women, the Family and Corporate Capitalism,” in M.L. Stephenson, ed., Women in Canada. General Publishing: Don Mills, Ontario.

F. Cultural Perspective

Collier, Jane Fishburne. 1997. From Duty to Desire: Remaking Families in a Spanish Village. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Ehrenrich, Barbara. (1983) The Hearts of Men. Anchor Press: Garden City, NJ.

Gillis, John. 1997. A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

[edit] Part II. Central Issues

A. Families in Transition: How do family institutions change over time?

Aries, Phillipe. 1962. Centuries of Childhood. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Collier, Jane, Michelle Z. Rosaldo and Sylvia Yanagisako. (1993) “Is There a Family? New Anthropological Views,” in Thorne, Barrie and Marilyn Yalom, eds., Rethinking the Family; Some Feminist Questions (rev ed.). Northeastern Univesity Press. pp. 31-48.

Coontz, Stephanie. (1992) The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. New York, Basic Books.

Fischer, Claude, and Michael Hout. 2007. "How Americans Lived: Families and Life Courses in Flux, 1900-2000" in Fischer & Hout, eds., Century of Difference.

Hochschild, Arlie. (1991) “The Fractured Family,” The American Prospect. Summer 1991, pp. 106-115.

Minow, Martha. (1991) “Redefining Families: Who’s In and Who’s Out?” University of Colorado Law Review 62:2. pp. 269-85. (excerpt reprinted in Hansen and Garey eds. (1998) Families in the U.S. Temple University Press, pp. 7-10)

Rothman, Barbara Katz. (1989) “Motherhood Under Patriarchy” in Rothman, Katz, Recreating Motherhood. W.W. Norton & Co. pp. 29-47.

Skolnick, Arlene S. (1991) “The Life Course Revolution,” of Embattled Paradise. Basic Books. (Reprinted in A.S. Skolnick and J.H. Skolnick, eds. (2001) Families in Transition, 11th ed. Allyn and Bacon. pp. 23-31)

Smith, Dorothy E. (1993) “The Standard North American Family: SNAF as an Ideological Code,” Journal of Family Issues 14:2. pp. 50-65.

Stacey, Judith. 1990. Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late 20th Century America. New York: Basic Books.

Stack, Carol B. and Linda M. Burton. (1994) “Kinscripts,” in Glenn, Evelyn Nakano, Grace Chang, and Linda Rennie Forcey, eds. Mothering. New York: Routledge. p. 33-44.

B. What are the relationships of work and family life?

Blair-Loy, Mary. (2004) Competing Devotions: Career and Family Among Women Executives. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Garey, Anita. 1999. Weaving Work and Motherhood. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Gerson, Kathleen. (1985) Hard Choices: How Women Decide about Work, Career, and Motherhood. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Hareven, Tamara. “Family Time and Historical Time.”

Hochschild, Arlie. (1990) The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. New York, Avon.

Hochschild, Arlie. (1997) The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work. New York, Metropolitan Books.

Jacobs, Jerry & Kathleen Gerson (2004) The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Nippert-Eng, Christine E. (1995). Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries through Everyday Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Williams, Joan. (2000) Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It. New York: Oxford University Press.

C. Marriage, Divorce, Re-marriage, Staying Single, and Single-Parent Families

Arendell, Terry. (1986) Mothers and Divorce: Legal, Economic and Social Dilemmas. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. (Summary appears in (1987) “Women and the Economics of Divorce in the Contemporary United States,” in Signs 13:1.)

Cherlin, Andrew. Divorce, Marriage, and Divorce.

Coontz, Stephanie. 2005. Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage. New York: Viking Press.

Gillis, John. 1997. Chapter 7 in A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Trimberger, Kay. 2005. The New Single Woman. Boston: Beacon Press.

Waite, Linda, and Maggie Gallagher. 2000. The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially. New York: Doubleday.

Wallerstein, Judith, and Sandra Blakeslee. 1989. Second Chances: Men, Women, and Children, a Decade After Divorce. New York: Ticknor & Fields.

D. Sexuality and Gay Families/Partnerships

Carrington, Christopher. (2002) No Place Like Home: Relationships and Family Life Among Lesbians and Gay Men.

D'Emilio, John, and Estelle Freedman. 1988. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. New York: Harper and Row.

Hirshman, Linda R. & Jane E. Larson (2003). Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex.

Stein, Arlene. 1989. "Three Models of Sexuality: Drives, Identities, and Practices." Sociological Theory 7:1-13.

Weston, Kath. (1991) Families we Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship. New York: Columbia University Press.

E. Relationship between Families and Capitalist Development

Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Arlie Hochschild. 2002. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. New York: Metropolitan Books.

Gillis. (1997) “Chapter 5,” in A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values. Boston: Harvard University Press.

Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar. (2000) “Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor,” in Gender and Society 14. pp. 560-581.

Pugh, Allison J. 2004. “Windfall Child Rearing: Low-Income Care and Consumption.” Journal of Consumer Culture, 4:2, 229-49.

Pugh, Allison J. 2005. “Selling Compromise: Toys, Motherhood, and the Cultural Deal.” Gender & Society, 19(6), 729-749.

Schor, Juliet. 2004. Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture. New York: Scribner.

Zelizer, Viviana. (1985) “Pricing the Priceless Child: From Baby Farms to Black Market Babies,” in Pricing the Priceless Child. New York: Basic Books.

F. Variation in Family Experiences Across Race/Ethnic Groups and Class

Baca-Zinn, Maxine. 1990. “Minority Families in Crisis: The Public Discussion,” in Karen Hansen and Ilene Philipson, eds. Women, Class and the Feminist Imagination.

Collins, Patricia Hill. (1990) “Black Women and Motherhood,” in Black Feminist Thought. New York: Routledge, pp. 115-139.

Dow, Dawn. (2007) Integrated vs. Traditional Motherhood: Determinants of Employment of African-American and White Mothers. Unpublished Masters Thesis. University of California, Berkeley.

Edin, Kathryn, and Laura Lein. 1997. “The Choice Between Welfare and Work” in Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work. New York: Russell Sage. Pp. 218-235.

Edin, Kathryn, and Maria Kefalas. 2006. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. (1983) “Split Household, Small Producer and Dual Wage Earner: An Analysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies,” in Journal of Marriage and the Family, February. pp. 35-46.

Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierette. 1994. Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration. Berkeley, University of California Press.

Lareau, Annette. 2003. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Pyke, Karen. 2005. “The 'Normal American Family' as an Interpretive Structure of Family Life Among Grown Children of Korean and Vietnamese Immigrants” in Arlene S. Skolnick & Jerome H. Skolnick, eds., Family in Transition. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Rubin, Lillian. 1994. Families on the Fault Line: America’s Working Class Speaks About the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity. New York: Harper Collins.

Stack, Carol. 1974. All Our Kin. New York, Harper and Row. Also, the summary in Women, Culture, and Society, called “Sex Roles and Survival Strategies an Urban Black community”

G. Constructions of Parenting and Childhood: Academic and Popular Discussions

Allison, Anne. 1991. “Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus,” Anthropological Quarterly 64: 195-208.

Belkin, Lisa. 2003. Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom. Simon & Schuster.

Colen, Shellee. 1995. “’Like a Mother to Them’: Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York,” in Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, eds., Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. Univ. of California Press, pp. 78-102.

Coltrane, Scott. [“Fathering: Paradoxes, contradictions and dilemmas’ in 2004 Colemen and Galong Handbook. Or “Boys and men in families” in 2004 Connell, Hearn and Kimmel Handbook.]

DiLeonardo, Micaela. 1992.“The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship,”, pp. 246-261. In Thorne, Barrie with Marilyn Yalom, eds. (1992) Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions. Boston: Northeastern University Press.

Doucet, Andrea. 2006. Do Men Mother? Fathering, Care, and Domestic Responsibility, pp. 1-136; 215-45.

Douglas, Susan. 2005. The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women.

Fonseca, Claudia. 2003, “Patterns of Shared Parenthood among the Brazilian Poor,” Social Text 74, 111-127.

Gillis, John. 1997. Chapters 8 & 9 in A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values. Boston: Harvard University Press.

Glenn, Evelyn Nakano, Grace Chang, & Linda Rennie Forcey. 1994 Mothering: Ideology, Experience, and Agency. New York: Routledge.

Hays, Sharon. (1996) The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Johnson-Hanks, Jennifer. 2005. Uncertain honor modern motherhood in an African crisis

Moon, Dawne and Jaye Cee Whitehead. 2006. "Marrying for America," (Chapter 2) in L. Kowaleski-Jones and N. H. Wolfinger (eds.), Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda. New York: Springer,

Olsen, Tillie. 1961. “I Stand Here Ironing” in Tell Me a Riddle. NY: Dell, pp. 1-12.

Rich, Adrienne Cecile. (1986) Of Woman Born: Motherhood As Experience and Institution.

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1992. “(M)Other Love: Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking” in Death Without Weeping: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil. Univ. of Chicago Press. (reprint is pp 257-263)

Steiner, Leslie Morgan. Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families.

Uttal, Lynet. 1996. “Custodial Care, Surrogate Care, and Coordinated Care: Employed Mothers and the Meaning of Child Care,” Gender & Society 10, 291-311.

Warner, Judith. (2006) Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety.

Zelizer. 1994. Pricing the Priceless Child.

H. Children’s Experiences & Intergenerational Relationships: Varied Circumstances

Allatt, Pat. 1996. “Conceptualizing Parenting from the Standpoint of Children: Relationship and Transition in the Life Course,” in Julia Brannen and Margaret O’Brien, eds., Children in Families. Falmer Press: 130-144.

Galinsky. 1999. Ask the Children: The Breakthrough Study that Reveals how to Succeed at Work and Parenting. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.

Miri Song. 1999. Helping Out: Children's Labor in Ethnic Businesses

Solberg, Anne. 1997. “Negotiating Childhood: Changing Constructions of Age for Norwegian Children,” in Allison James and Alan Prout, eds., Constucting and Reconstructing Childhood (2nd ed.). Falmer Press: 126-144.

Zelizer. 1994. Pricing the Priceless Child.

I. Care and Emotions within Families

Cheale, David. 1996. “'Showing them you love them': Gift giving and the dialectic of intimacy” in Komter, Aafke (ed.), The Gift: An Interdisciplinary Perspective.

Devault, Marjorie. 1994. Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Derne, Steve. 1994. "Structural Realities, Persistent Dilemmas, and the Construction of Emotional Paradigms: Love in Three Cultures." Social Perspectives on Emotion 2:281-308.

Finch, Janet. 1989. Family obligations and social change.

Fineman, Martha. 2000. “Cracking the Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, and Self-Sufficiency,” American University Journal of Gender of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law: 8.

Hansen, Karen V. 2006. Not-So-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care. Rutgers University Press.

Hochshild, Arlie Russell. 2003 (1983). The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Hochshild, Arlie Russell. 2003. The Commericialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Solinger, Rickie. 1999. “Dependency and Choice: The Two Faces of Eve” in Gwendolyn Mink (ed.) Whose Welfare? Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Tronto, Joan. 1987. “Beyond Gender Difference to a Theory of Care,” Signs 12: 644-86.

Waerness, Kari. “The Rationality of Caring.” Economic and Industrial Democracy 5 (1984).

Zelizer, Viviana. “Chapter 4: Caring Relations” and “Chapter 1: Encounters of Intimacy and Economy” in The Purchase of Intimacy.