Arlie Russell Hochschild famous quotes

Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy has not disappeared; it has changed form. In the old form, women were forced to obey an overbearing husband in the privacy of an unjust marriage. In the new form, the working single mother is economically abandoned by her former husband and ignored by a patriarchal society at large.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Mother #Husband #Acceptance

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Peaceful #Insecurity #Looks

The more we rely on the market, the more hooked we become on its promises: Do you need a tidier closet? A nicer family picture album? Elderly parents who are truly well cared for? Children who have an edge in school, on tests, in college and beyond? If we can afford the services involved, many if not most of us are prone to say, 'Sure, why not?
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Children #School #College

The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Helping #Finance #Neighbor

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Self #People #Volunteer

Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Links #Wonder #Subtle

If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#People #Choices #Together

Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Lying #Omission #Important

Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Finals #Research #Want

Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Jobs #Weekend #Volunteer

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Children #America #Parent

In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Art #Children #Moving

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Love #Jobs #Age

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Iphone #Years #Car

And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Dream #Party #Ideas

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Children #Home #Cutting

The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Home #Divorce #Equal Treatment

And were in the middle of a perfect storm. These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Government #Perfect #Storm