Circles and Settings: Role Changes of American WomenState University of New York Press, 1994 M04 12 - 325 pages 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. |
Contents
The Role of Wife | 23 |
The Role of Mother | 59 |
Mothers of the Upper Class | 85 |
Sociopsychological Aspects of Role Involvement | 92 |
Social Roles in Kinship Networks | 99 |
Homemaker | 137 |
Settings and Circles | 167 |
HomeBased Work | 181 |
Multiple Settings | 201 |
Social Roles in the Rest of the World | 207 |
Life Spaces and SelfConcepts | 245 |
Societal Solutions to Role Conflicts of Women | 254 |
Sociopsychological Aspects of Social Life Spaces | 262 |
Conclusions | 268 |
References | 279 |
Organizational Settings | 192 |
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