As I reflect now on this essay written in 1973, I’m struck by what has changed—the increasing numbers of women in sociology and their INSIDE THE CLOCKWORK OF MALE CAREERS 253 impact—but also by what has not—the clockwork of male careers. When I was an assistant professor in 1971, at UC Berkeley, 12 percent of […]
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THE VIEW FROM 2000 AND BEYOND
As I reflect now on this essay written in 1973, I’m struck by what has changed—the increasing numbers of women in sociology and their INSIDE THE CLOCKWORK OF MALE CAREERS 253 impact—but also by what has not—the clockwork of male careers. When I was an assistant professor in 1971, at UC Berkeley, 12 percent of […]
Positional and Personal Control Systems
Element Compared Main means of social control Positional Control System Manipulation of incentives and social coercion Personal Control System Persuasion and manipulation of incentives Aim of social control Behavior Feelings, thoughts, and intentions Psychological habits developed Learn obedience in behavior and outward action. Emotion work less necessary Learn to be subject to persuasion, learn […]
What Is Successful Aging?
What does it mean to age successfully? Take some time to think about this question for yourself. Develop a thorough list of everything it would take for you to say that youwill have aged successfully when the time comes. Then ask this question to several people of different ages and backgrounds. Compare their answers. Do […]
Lifestyle Factors
Most attention in health promotion and disease prevention programs is on tackling a handful of behaviors that have tremendous payoff, such as keeping fit and eating properly. In turn, these programs educate adults about good health care practices and help identify conditions such as hypertension, high cholesterol levels, and elevated blood sugar levels, which, if […]
Our Stage II challenge
The challenge of The Myth of Male Power, then, is to care enough about men to spend as much of the next quarter century helping men become Stage II men as we did the last quarter century helping women become Stage II women; to move toward equality of obligation for the death professions and combat […]
Appendix: Data on Factors. Related to Fertility
A ll of the data in this appendix refer to the discussion of /% relations between female employment, family policy, and fertility in Chapter 5. The data in Figure 1 show. A. a negative relationship of r = — .734. Because we cannot assume that the data in these analyses (average rates of the same […]
Appendix: Data on Factors. Related to Fertility
A ll of the data in this appendix refer to the discussion of /% relations between female employment, family policy, and fertility in Chapter 5. The data in Figure 1 show. A. a negative relationship of r = — .734. Because we cannot assume that the data in these analyses (average rates of the same […]
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
By now you’re probably wondering how to promote successful aging. You may not be surprised to learn that there is no set of steps or magic potion you can take to guarantee that you will age optimally. But research is showing that there are some steps you can take to maximize your chances (Guralnik, Table […]
The men’s movement as evolutionary shift
The men’s movement will be the longest of all movements because it is not proposing merely to integrate blacks or Hispanics into a system that already exists, it is proposing an evolutionary shift in the system itself — an end to woman the protected and man the protector. This division is rooted in our biology’, […]