Arlie Russell Hochschild

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Arlie Russell Hochschild [ 'hoʊkʃɪld ] (born January 15, 1940 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley and author.

Life

Arlie Russell studied International Relations at Swarthmore College and graduated from there in 1962, then obtained a Masters in 1965 at UC, Berkeley in 1965 and received her doctorate there in 1969.

She is married to the writer and journalist Adam Hochschild . The couple have two children.

Among other things, Russell deals with the dual burden of women doing housework and maintaining employment. At the end of the 1970s, Hochschild coined the term emotional work , which refers to the conveyance of friendliness and feelings in the workplace; In doing so, she primarily examined the service professions .

The 48-hour day

In Hochschild's book The 48-Hour Day. Ways out of the dilemma of working parents is discussed by the author with the topic of the compatibility of work and family and the role of women and men, a focus which is very topical due to the increasing equality of men and women. Among other things, she is devoted to the hectic family life, cultural veiling, the myth of the traditional family, the idea of ​​masculinity and gratitude, the problems of a marriage in a woman's professional activity, the areas of responsibility of men and women and the conflict between traditional and new ways.

Hochschild, together with Anne Machung, conducted interviews with 50 married couples and observations of dozen families in their home environment; she argues that a housewife lacks an important area of ​​social life. Working academics, on the other hand, have little time for their families. She also mentions that the scientist's profession was originally reserved for traditional men only. The women had the job of staying home and looking after the children.

If possible, professional life should be restructured so that there is still time for the family. This would be tantamount to a revolution which, starting at home, extends to the workplace, universities, companies, banks and factories. Women have been working more and more in recent years, but they have remained in lower positions. The women were prevented from doing this, among other things, by the conditions of the professional world, the rules of which are tailored to the male population in advance. Hochschild argues that the reason is the lower involvement of men in the care and upbringing of children and housework.

It is difficult for women to compete with male standards. In the mid-20s to mid-30s, the age at which women have the most children, the highest demands are made. When returning to work, women often lose heart because they lack possible work experience. The middle class is affected, but also workers. Besides, the pressure also has a bad effect on family life.

In addition to the job, which is only half of the problem, family life should also be looked at more closely. Questions that Hochschild mentions at this point include: For example, who should take over the mother's job, whether women are able to reconcile work and family, and whether work has priority. What feelings are men and women confronted with and to what extent are partners dependent on one another? Young female students who were interviewed by Hochschild clearly stated that they would later work full time and have a family. However, they often do not know how this should be possible and are rather afraid of the future problem.

Let the image of the woman with flowing hair serve as an example of the life of a working woman with a family. This should be busy, active and happy. The counterpart was the mannequin with a slung apron, which stood motionless by the window. The latter picture seems to come closer to reality. Both images are reminiscent of the two sides of the revolution, which has captured women and changed their roles. Women are increasingly being integrated into working life. They experienced changes in their financial possibilities, self-confidence, their concept of femininity and their everyday life. The engine of this revolution is also a change in the economy. Men's wages are losing purchasing power, “male jobs” are losing importance and women are finding more and more employment opportunities in the growing service sector. The new gender ideology is important in this revolution and the identity is being adapted to new living conditions.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Clement Henry Moore: Student Unions in North African Politics. University of California Press, 1968.
  • The Unexpected Community: Portrait of an Old Age Subculture. University of California Press, 1978, ISBN 0-520-03663-8 .
  • with Anne Machung: The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. Avon Books, 1990, ISBN 0-380-71157-5 .
    • German: The 48-hour day. Ways out of the dilemma of working parents. Zsolnay, Vienna / Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 3-552-04235-0 .
  • The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work. Metropolitan Books, 1997, ISBN 0-8050-4470-1 .
    • German: No time. When the company becomes home and there is only work waiting at home. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3620-X .
  • The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. University of California Press, 2003, ISBN 0-520-23933-4 .
  • The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work. University of California Press, 2003, ISBN 0-520-21488-9 .
  • with Barbara Ehrenreich: Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. Henry Holt and Co., 2004, ISBN 0-8050-7509-7 .
  • The outsourced self. Intimate life in market times. Henry Holt and Co, 2012.
  • Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right . The New Press, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-62097-225-0 .
    • German foreign in their country. A trip to the heart of the American right. Campus-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-593-50766-8 .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae, 2018 Curriculum Vitae Arlie Russell Hochschild. ( Memento from April 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Arlie Russell Hochschild: The 48 Hour Day. Ways out of the dilemma of working parents . Droemer Knaur , Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-84015-4 , pp. 27 (English: The second shift . Translated by Andrea Galler).
  3. ↑ Arlie Russell Hochschild: The 48 Hour Day. Ways out of the dilemma of working parents . Droemer Knaur , Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-84015-4 , pp. 14 (English: The second shift . Translated by Andrea Galler).
  4. ↑ Arlie Russell Hochschild: The 48 Hour Day. Ways out of the dilemma of working parents . Droemer Knaur , Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-84015-4 , pp. 15 (English: The second shift . Translated by Andrea Galler).
  5. ↑ Arlie Russell Hochschild: The 48 Hour Day. Ways out of the dilemma of working parents . Droemer Knaur , Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-84015-4 , pp. 16 (English: The second shift . Translated by Andrea Galler).
  6. ↑ Arlie Russell Hochschild: The 48 Hour Day. Ways out of the dilemma of working parents . Droemer Knaur , Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-84015-4 , pp. 305 (English: The second shift . Translated by Andrea Galler).
  7. ↑ Michael Hochgeschwender : Betrayed and sold. FAZ.net , January 20, 2017. (faz.net)
  8. ↑ Katja Ridderbusch: What Trump voters want. In: Andruck - The magazine for political literature. September 11, 2017 (deutschlandfunk.de , accessed September 16, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Hochschild, Arlie Russell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hochschild, Arlie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts