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Child Care
Class
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Dexter Parents
Downward Social Comparison
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ethnographic research methods
Extracurricular
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Full Time
gender roles analysis
home
laura
Married Women
media impact on parental decision making
media influence families
Middle Class
mother
NPR
Part Time
qualitative family studies
schlessinger
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Social Comparison
sociocultural family dynamics
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Stay At Home Mother
Stay Home
Stay Home Full Time
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Tv Content
Tv Family
Tv Representation
WORK FAMILY CHOICES
Work Family Decision
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Working Moms
Product details
- ISBN 9780415993098
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Written by nationally recognized anthropologists Conrad Kottak and Lara Descartes, this ethnography of largely white, middle class families in a town in the midwest explores the role that the media play in influencing how those families cope with everyday work/family issues. The book insightfully reports that families struggle with, and make work/family decisions based largely on the images and ideas they receive from media sources, though they strongly deny being so influenced. An ideal book for teaching undergraduate family, media, and methods courses.
Lara Descartes is Associate Professor of Family Studies at Brescia University College. She earned her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include work and family, popular culture, and how identity factors (race, class, gender, geographic locale, etc.) impact family life.
Conrad P. Kottak is the Julian H. Steward Collegiate Professor (and former Chair) of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He has done ethnographic field work on work/family issues in Brazil, Madagascar, and the United States. His research interests also encompass global change, national and international culture, and mass media.
