"Could it be, I wonder, that there is……" — Arlie Russell Hochschild
"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?"
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22 Quotes by Arlie Russell Hochschild
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Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women…
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The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment…
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Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes,…
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And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the…
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Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been…
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Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.
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In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting…
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Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of…
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Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on…
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Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he…
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If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend…
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Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural…
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