Arlie Russel Hochschild

CONTEMPORARY THINKERS AND TOPICS
IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM

Arlie Russel Hochschild

Arlie Russell Hochschild is currently a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Since receiving her Ph.D. in Sociology at UC-Berkeley in 1969, Hochschild has had many notable contributions to the discipline of Sociology. Her extensive use of interviews and ethnography makes Hochschild a contemporary symbolic interactionist.
Before returning to her alma mater, Hochschild served as an assistant professor at UC-Santa Cruz between 1969-1971. Between 1971 and 1975 she served as assistant professor at UC-Berkeley, associate professor between 1975-1983, and full professor from 1983 to the present. Between 1978 and 1979 she served as acting chair of the Sociology Department at UC-Berkeley. In addition to her current professor position, she has been the director of the Center for Working Families since 1998. Hochschild currently resides in San Francisco with her husband and two children.

Hochschild has published four academic books: The Unexpected Community (1973); The Managed Heart: The Commercialization of Human Feeling (1983); The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home (1989); and The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (1997). Both The Managed Heart and The Second Shift were named notable social science books of the year by the New York Times Book Review in 1983 and 1989 respectively. The Managed Heart won both the Charles Cooley Award and American Sociological Association C. Wright Mills Award -Honorable Mention in 1983. Both The Managed Heart and The Second Shift have been translated in at least three international languages. With more than thirty published articles, over ten published reviews and Op Eds, roughly twenty international and thirty national invited talks, and the recipient of awards from the Fulbright, Alfred P. Sloan, Ford, and Guggenheim foundations, Hochschild has become a respected and prominent sociological thinker.

Hochschild's analyses are often based on extensive qualitative material. She emphasizes that the symbolic interactionist Erving Goffman had the greatest influence on her way of thinking. Her book The Managed Heart is an investigation into emotional labor and how one's estrangement from expressions of feeling is often an occupational hazard. In The Second Shift, Hochschild takes an ethnographic approach in interviewing and observing two-career parent homes. She finds that women by and large do more housework than their husbands, engaging in a second shift of work when they return home. In The Time Bind, Hochschild conducts interviews with people in positions ranging from top executives to factory workers. Her research finds that working parents often do not take companies up on their "family-friendly" policies, like paternity leave and flex time.

Arlie Russell Hochschild draws on and influences the paradigm of symbolic interactionism. As a respected voice, Hochschild continues to be a key contributor to Sociology.

To see Hochschilds' vita, please visit:
http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/hochschild/


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CONTEMPORARY THINKERS AND TOPICS IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM Arlie Russel Hochschild Arlie Russell Hochschild is currently a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Since receiving her Ph.D. in Sociology at UC-Berkeley in 1969, Hochschild has had many notable contributions to the discipline of Sociology. Her extensive use of interviews and ethnography makes Hochschild a contemporary symbolic interactionist. Before returning to her alma mater, Hochschild served as an assistant professor at UC-Santa Cruz between 1969-1971. Between 1971 and 1975 she served as assistant professor at UC-Berkeley, associate professor between 1975-1983, and full professor from 1983 to the present. Between 1978 and 1979 she served as acting chair of the Sociology Department at UC-Berkeley. In addition to her current professor position, she has been the director of the Center for Working Families since 1998. Hochschild currently resides in San Francisco with her husband and two children. Hochschild has published four academic books: The Unexpected Community (1973); The Managed Heart: The Commercialization of Human Feeling (1983); The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home (1989); and The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (1997). Both The Managed Heart and The Second Shift were named notable social science books of the year by the New York Times Book Review in 1983 and 1989 respectively. The Managed Heart won both the Charles Cooley Award and American Sociological Association C. Wright Mills Award -Honorable Mention in 1983. Both The Managed Heart and The Second Shift have been translated in at least three international languages. With more than thirty published articles, over ten published reviews and Op Eds, roughly twenty international and thirty national invited talks, and the recipient of awards from the Fulbright, Alfred P. Sloan, Ford, and Guggenheim foundations, Hochschild has become a respected and prominent sociological thinker. Hochschild's analyses are often based on extensive qualitative material. She emphasizes that the symbolic interactionist Erving Goffman had the greatest influence on her way of thinking. Her book The Managed Heart is an investigation into emotional labor and how one's estrangement from expressions of feeling is often an occupational hazard. In The Second Shift, Hochschild takes an ethnographic approach in interviewing and observing two-career parent homes. She finds that women by and large do more housework than their husbands, engaging in a second shift of work when they return home. In The Time Bind, Hochschild conducts interviews with people in positions ranging from top executives to factory workers. Her research finds that working parents often do not take companies up on their "family-friendly" policies, like paternity leave and flex time. Arlie Russell Hochschild draws on and influences the paradigm of symbolic interactionism. As a respected voice, Hochschild continues to be a key contributor to Sociology. To see Hochschilds' vita, please visit: http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/hochschild/