День: 01.11.2015

The Social Relations of Reproduction

The idea that biological reproduction is a social activity, distinct from the activity of childrearing and determined by changing material condi­tions and social relations, is essentially Marxist. In The German Ideology, Marx defines ‘Three aspects of social activity": along with "the production of material life" and "the production of new needs," human procreation— reproduction within […]

Delayed Launching among the Professional Middle Class

Parents from different socioeconomic classes had different visions of what a college education should offer their children. Professional middle-class parents who make efforts to ensure that their children are headed for high-status edu­cational institutions do not expect those institutions to be vocational training grounds.22 To the contrary: in lieu of job preparation, elite parents talk […]

Adopting ICT in the. Mompreneurs Business

A Strategy for Growth?1 Yvonne Costin University of Limerick, Ireland ABSTRACT The advancing pace of women S entrepreneurial activity across the globe represents a promising trend to fuel economic development and socialprogress (Fitzsimons & O ’Gorman, 2005). Research has shown that women-led businesses have strong growth aspirations, are customer-oriented, value human capital and cultural aspects […]

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND CLIMATE

In addition to the underrepresentation of female faculty, concerns persisted regarding gender differences in the treatment of faculty. Several studies sug­gested women were evaluated more harshly and were less likely to be hired into academic positions (Lewin and Duchan, 1971; Steinpreis et al., 1999; Trix and Psenka, 2003; Wenneras and Wold, 1997). The literature also […]

Aspirations for the Future

More and More Education Regardless of the demographic characteristics of the interviewed parents— their social class location, racial/ethnic identification, region of the country, marital status, age of children—they look toward higher education for their own children as a significant basis for securing an advantaged future. This is not an extraordinary group of parents. The National […]

DIMENSIONS OF THE REVOLUTION

For the puritan tradition, the sexual represented an oppressive presence by the self-consciousness with which its presence was excluded from public life and most of private life as well. In contrast, in less than three decades we have moved to practices that allow for images of the sexual to permeate our entire culture. The current […]