Circles and settings : role changes of American women

Author(s)

• Lopata, Helena Znaniecka

Bibliographic Information

Circles and settings : role changes of American women

Helena Znaniecka Lopata

（SUNY series in gender and society / Cornelia Butler Flora, editor）

State University of New York Press, c1994

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-319) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Circles and Settings: Role Changes of American Women is an original, comprehensive analysis of changing roles of American women at a time of great upheaval and public, as well as social science, commentary. Using a symbolic interactionist framework, with role seen as a set of negotiated relations, Lopata analyses the roles of wife, mother, kin member (daughter, sister, grandmother) homemaker, job holder in different settings, as well as friend, neighbor, volunteer, and activist. This book comprehensively pulls together all the major involvements of American women using both historical and comparative perspectives to show the evolution of these roles over the last century.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. 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 2. 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 Modern 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 3. The Role of Mother Preventing or Insuring the Role of Mother Traditional Times, Traditional Places Transitional and Modern 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 4. Social Roles in Kinship Networks World Revolution in Kinship Salience? The Transitional Form of Kin Networks Kin Member and Kin Keeper The Modern 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 Modern Form of the Role of Daughter The Role of Daughter-in-Law Sister Grandmother Traditional Times, Traditional Places Transitional and Modern Forms of the Role of Grandmother The Social Psychology of Grandmothering Summary 5. 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 Moderm Form of the Role of Homemaker Summary 6. 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 7. 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 Modern Form of the Role of Neighbor Roles in Communities Member of Voluntary Associations Member in Reform or Revolutionary Movements Summary 8. 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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Details

• NCID: BA23319424
• ISBN:
  • 0791417670
  • 0791417689
• LCCN: 93014927
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 325 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ1075.5.U6
  • DC20 : 305.42/0973
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sex role -- United States -- History
  • LCSH : Women -- United States -- Social conditions
  • LCSH : Women -- United States -- Psychology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA12999790