"People who volunteer at the recycling center or……" — Arlie Russell Hochschild
"People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get."
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22 Quotes by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Arlie Russell Hochschild has 22 quotes on this site.
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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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Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure…
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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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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;…
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As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely…
— Annie Besant
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On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off…
— Erma Bombeck
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It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little…
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I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a…
— Nicolas Cage
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
— Samuel Alexander
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
— Maya Angelou
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Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful…
— Patricia Churchland
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In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult…
— John O'Donohue
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The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself…
— Ernst Haeckel
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...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation,…
— Yehudi Menuhin
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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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