Arlie Russell Hochschild

Ehrenreich is the author of 14 books including the New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed. As an American feminist, political activist, and democratic socialist, she has worked mostly in health-related research, advocacy and activism. Arlie Russell Hochschild is also the author of seven books. As a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, her work focuses on critical theory, ethnographic observation, and human emotion. The book contains many essays that were written by

Gender roles are socially constructed rules that dictate the types of acceptable behaviors based on sex. In modern society, gender roles continue to hinder the progress of equality between a man and a woman. A man and woman’s acceptable role in a 1960s American society is clearly portrayed in the episode of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2007), written by Matthew Wieners, of the series Mad Men. The episode illustrates the concepts of the glass ceiling and glass escalator, and how these concepts affect

families apart in the process. The definition of family is ever changing and ever evolving. From Kathleen Gerson and Stacy Torres essay Changing Family Patterns and Family Life, Katherine Schulten’s article on the changing definitions of family, Arlie Russell Hochschild’s The Second Shift, and The American Family by Stephanie Koontz, all have different definitions of family. The definition of family, being defined as those adopted, those blood related, related by marriage, or by similar traditions and

The book “Global Woman” edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild focuses on the lives of women that leave their third world country to work in homes as nannies or servants and others even sex work. These women take on that labor without knowing what results will come from their desperate action. The authors explain and recount the stories of many of the women whom have had to sacrifice their lives. These women sacrifice it all to provide for themselves and their families and give

Feminist Arlie Russell Hochschild developed the sociology of emotions (Jaggar and Rothenberg 1993). She focused on emotions such grief, contempt, envy, depression, guilt, anger, and fear. Her theory uncovered that males have learned to repress and deny their female qualities

INTRODUCTION Dance Moms, in its fourth season on Lifetime, a channel whose main demographic is women, featuring dance studio owner/dance teacher Abby Lee Miller, is the flagship “maternal television” program to be examined in this paper. Abby is famous for the pyramid, a system in which she ranks her favorite dance students (top of the pyramid) and least favorite (bottom) directly in front of the students and their mothers. These three groups of females, particularly the mothers and Abby