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Parents' Jobs and Children's Lives
Parents' Jobs and Children's Lives considers the effects of parental working conditions on children's cognition and social development. It also investigates how parental work affects the home environments that parents create for their children, and how these home environments influence the children directly. The theoretical underpinnings of the book draw from both sociology and economics; in addition, the authors make use of literature derived from developmental psychology. Theoretically eclectic, they rely on the personality and social structure framework developed by Melvin Kohn and his colleagues, on arguments regarding the importance of family social capital developed by James Coleman, a...
Ascription and Labor Markets
The problem and theoretical foundations; Data, methods, and labor market's structure; Local labor market characteristics'effects on earnings; Economic sector and dual labor market characteristics'effects on earning; Occupational labor market characteristics' and class/authority effects on earnings; Social psychological effects on earnings: social selection and earnings attainment.
Work and Family
The `juggling act' of work and family has become a significant focus of those interested in the social condition. This book looks at the varied ways time influences work and family processes and considers the social policy implications that inhere.
Work and Family
This book addresses key issues regarding the nexus of work and family in society at the beginning of the 21st century. For many families, the "balancing act" brings rewards as well as concerns. Employers and governments struggle with whether and how to assist in achieving balance. The work presents original research that addresses the challenges in meeting work and family obligations. Each chapter provides policy recommendations that many help achieve better work-family balance, changes in work-family attitudes, conditions leading to firms' adopting policies to support work-family balance, and studies of child outcomes in dual earner families.
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series
Includes index.
American Sociological Review
Includes sections "Book reviews" and "Periodical literature."
Factor Analysis
Describes various commonly used methods of initial factoring and factor rotation. In addition to a full discussion of exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and various methods of constructing factor scales are also presented.
