Arlie Russell Hochschild Quotes - Page 2

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• As motherhood as a "private enterprise" declines and more mothers rely on the work of lower-paid specialists, the value accorded the work of mothering (not the value of children) has declined for women, making it all the harder for men to take it up.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Mother, Children, Men

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• Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Time, Architect, Prisoner

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• 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

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• 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

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• There's the reason that I think that red states don't trust the government. They see it as an instrument of their own marginalization, because they feel especially Democratic administrations have favored blacks, women, immigrants, refugees. And all of these groups, they see as getting ahead of them, as almost like line-cutters, pushing them back in line.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Thinking, Reason, Democratic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

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• 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

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• To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Directors, Tasks, Faces

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