"The more we rely on the market, the……" — Arlie Russell Hochschild
"The more we rely on the market, the more hooked we become on its promises: Do you need a tidier closet? A nicer family picture album? Elderly parents who are truly well cared for? Children who have an edge in school, on tests, in college and beyond? If we can afford the services involved, many if not most of us are prone to say, 'Sure, why not?"
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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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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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