Quotes by Arlie Russell Hochschild

About Arlie Russell Hochschild:

Arlie Russell Hochschild is a professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include: The Managed Heart, The Second Shift, The Time Bind, The Commercialization of Intimate Life and the co-edited Global Woman: nannies, maids and sex workers in the new economy. Her latest book is So How's the Family? And Other Essays. Hochschild explores the many ways we manage our emotions in personal life and also perform emotional labor in the American workplace and around the globe. For Hochschild's work on emotion management, see interviews (Key Pedagogic Thinkers) and (Emotional Labor Around the World: An Interview with Arlie Hochschild).
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We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra acti...

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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 doing it faster.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the children were Israeli... Suddenly, I found myself speaking the wrong language, dressed in the wrong clothes, picked up by the wrong mode ...

Arlie Russell Hochschild

What emotions would we experience if we weren't working ourselves to death? What wishes drive us? What fantasies hitch themselves to our continual busyness? Only when we step away from our frenzy can we know.

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And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

The explosion in the number of available personal services says a great deal about changing ideas of what we can reasonably expect from whom.

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And we're in the middle of a 'perfect storm.' These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us v...

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The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as i...

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I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we've had too little faith in government.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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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I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.

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Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

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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...

Arlie Russell Hochschild

If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events coll...

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 ...

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Most of us have jobs that require some handling of other peoples' feelings and our own, and in that sense, we are all partly flight attendants.

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The focus of our public discourse has been on how American companies are competing with Japanese, German, and other foreign companies. What this allows us to ignore is how each of those American companies is really in competition with the families of...

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What is for sale, what is not? If we really think that making your apologies to your wife or reading a bedside story to your child are activities that we can pay a stranger to do, then, without moralising, what has happened to us?

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Men who shared the load at home seemed just as pressed for time as their wives, and torn between the demands of career and small children...But the majority of men did not share the load at home. Some refused outright. Others refused more passively, ...

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Ellen Galinsky's surveys at the Families and Work Institute pointed to a desirable norm for many parents for working not full-time, but part-time. And I get that. I mean, Norway has a 35-hour work week. That counts as part-time for us in the United S...

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Author Bio

  • NameArlie Russell Hochschild
  • DescriptionProfessor, educator
  • BornJanuary 15, 1940
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Sociologist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship