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=== Early life and family background ===
=== Early life and family background ===
Arlie Hochschild was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Ruth Alene (Libbey) and [[Francis H. Russell|Francis Henry Russell]], a diplomat who served in Israel, New Zealand, Ghana, and Tunisia.<ref name="Washington Post 1989">{{cite news | title=Ex-Ambassador F.H. Russell Dies at Age 84 | newspaper=[[Washington Post]] | date=April 2, 1989 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1989/04/02/ex-ambassador-fh-russell-dies-at-age-84/bc8688dd-ead9-4f89-84c0-4bbb63b67685/ | access-date=December 8, 2021}}</ref> In her 2016 book, ''Strangers in Their Own Land'', Hochschild says that her first experiences reaching out and getting to know people different from her stem from own fantasy that she was her dad's helper. <ref>{{Cite book |last=Hochshild |first=Arlie |title=Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right |year=2016}}</ref> Hochschild grew up in a household where her mother was the primary caregiver and her father was the provider. Her mother "volunteered for the [[Parent–teacher association|PTA]], and helped start a preschool program in Montgomery County, Maryland, all the while supporting [her] father's job as a government official".<ref>Hochschild, Commercialization, p.&nbsp;3</ref>
Arlie Hochschild was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Ruth Alene (Libbey) and [[Francis H. Russell|Francis Henry Russell]], a diplomat who served in Israel, New Zealand, Ghana, and Tunisia.<ref name="Washington Post 1989">{{cite news | title=Ex-Ambassador F.H. Russell Dies at Age 84 | newspaper=[[Washington Post]] | date=April 2, 1989 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1989/04/02/ex-ambassador-fh-russell-dies-at-age-84/bc8688dd-ead9-4f89-84c0-4bbb63b67685/ | access-date=December 8, 2021}}</ref> In her 2016 book, ''Strangers in Their Own Land'', Hochschild says that her first experiences reaching out and getting to know people different from her stem from own fantasy that she was her dad's helper. <ref>{{Cite book |last=Hochshild |first=Arlie |title=Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right |year=2016}}</ref> Hochschild grew up in a household where her mother was the primary caregiver and her father was the provider. Her mother "volunteered for the [[Parent–teacher association|PTA]], and helped start a preschool program in Montgomery County, Maryland, all the while supporting [her] father's job as a government official".<ref>Hochschild, Commercialization, p.&nbsp;3</ref>

In Hochschild's early life, she became fascinated with the boundaries people draw between inner experience and outer appearance. Living internationally at a young age challenged her to see the world in a unique way. As she writes in the preface to her book ''[[The Managed Heart: the Commercialization of Human Feeling]]'', "I found myself passing a dish of peanuts among many guests and looking up at their smiles; diplomatic smiles can look different when seen from below than when seen straight on. Afterward, I would listen to my mother and father interpret various gestures. The tight smile of the Bulgarian emissary, the averted glance of the Chinese consul . . . I learned to convey messages not simply from person to person but from Sofia to Washington, from Peking to Paris, and from Paris to Washington. Had I passed the peanuts to a person, I wondered, or to an actor? Where did the person end and the act begin? Just how is a person related to an act?"<ref name="Hochschild1983ix">Hochschild, 1983; p. ix.</ref> ''The Managed Heart: the Commercialization of Human Feeling'' explores how we grapple with the emotions we are truly feeling versus the emotions we think we are supposed to feel.<ref name="Hochschild-2012">{{Cite book|title=The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling|isbn=978-0520272941 |last1=Hochschild |first1=Arlie Russell |date=March 31, 2012 }}</ref>


Hochschild has been married to her husband, writer [[Adam Hochschild]], since June 1965. They met at a [[Quakers|Quaker]] work camp in [[Spanish Harlem]] when she was 20 and he was 17. Although they aren’t practicing Quakers, they still like to embody some of the Quaker values, which are also what drew her to [[Swarthmore College]].<ref name="swarthmore.edu">{{Cite web |title=A Playful Spirit – Swarthmore College Bulletin |url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/archive/wp/april-2013_a-playful-spirit.html |access-date=March 3, 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref> Hochschild joined Swarthmore as a [[sophomore]] transfer student after spending one year at Victoria University in New Zealand. In 1964, she and her future husband joined the Civil Rights Movement in “[[civil rights movement|civil rights work]] in [[Vicksburg, Mississippi|Vicksburg, Miss]].” <ref name="swarthmore.edu" /> They raised two sons, David and Gabriel, and have two granddaughters.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}
Hochschild has been married to her husband, writer [[Adam Hochschild]], since June 1965. They met at a [[Quakers|Quaker]] work camp in [[Spanish Harlem]] when she was 20 and he was 17. Although they aren’t practicing Quakers, they still like to embody some of the Quaker values, which are also what drew her to [[Swarthmore College]].<ref name="swarthmore.edu">{{Cite web |title=A Playful Spirit – Swarthmore College Bulletin |url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/archive/wp/april-2013_a-playful-spirit.html |access-date=March 3, 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref> Hochschild joined Swarthmore as a [[sophomore]] transfer student after spending one year at Victoria University in New Zealand. In 1964, she and her future husband joined the Civil Rights Movement in “[[civil rights movement|civil rights work]] in [[Vicksburg, Mississippi|Vicksburg, Miss]].” <ref name="swarthmore.edu" /> They raised two sons, David and Gabriel, and have two granddaughters.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}
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:"Mills seemed to assume that in order to sell personality, one need only have it. Yet simply having personality does not make one a diplomat, any more than having muscles makes one an athlete. What was missing was a sense of the active emotional labor involved in the selling. This labor, it seemed to me, might be one part of a distinctly patterned yet invisible emotional system—a system composed of individual acts of 'emotion work,' social 'feeling rules,' and a great variety of exchanges between people in private and public life."{{cn|date=February 2024}} In her work she's tried to illuminate aspects of this system.
:"Mills seemed to assume that in order to sell personality, one need only have it. Yet simply having personality does not make one a diplomat, any more than having muscles makes one an athlete. What was missing was a sense of the active emotional labor involved in the selling. This labor, it seemed to me, might be one part of a distinctly patterned yet invisible emotional system—a system composed of individual acts of 'emotion work,' social 'feeling rules,' and a great variety of exchanges between people in private and public life."{{cn|date=February 2024}} In her work she's tried to illuminate aspects of this system.




=== Politics ===
=== Politics ===


For ''[[Strangers in Their Own Land|Strangers in Their Own Land – Anger and Mourning on the American Right]],'' she spent over five years getting to know deeply conservative voters in [[Lake Charles, Louisiana|Lake Charles]], Louisiana.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 9, 2022 |title=SwatTalk: The 2022 Midterms and the State of American Democracy |url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/alumni-resources-events/swattalk-2022-midterms-and-state-american-democracy |access-date=October 2, 2023 |website=www.swarthmore.edu |language=en}}</ref> The book was a National Book Award finalist, as well as one of the top ten best non-fiction books of the decade by the Boston Public Library. For her research, she tries to temporarily turn off her own moral alarm system, listen, and then "translate" the messages of the right to those on the left. "<ref>{{Cite web |last=Plumer |first=Brad |date=October 25, 2016 |title=What a liberal sociologist learned from spending five years in Trump's America |url=https://www.vox.com/2016/9/6/12803636/arlie-hochschild-strangers-land-louisiana-trump |access-date=March 2, 2022 |website=Vox}}</ref>
Although Hochschild identifies as more “left-leaning” politically, she has tried to "climb an empathy wall" to those who feel very differently, and to study other such "climbers." {{cn|date=February 2024}} For ''[[Strangers in Their Own Land|Strangers in Their Own Land – Anger and Mourning on the American Right]],'' she spent over five years getting to know deeply conservative voters in [[Lake Charles, Louisiana|Lake Charles]], Louisiana.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 9, 2022 |title=SwatTalk: The 2022 Midterms and the State of American Democracy |url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/alumni-resources-events/swattalk-2022-midterms-and-state-american-democracy |access-date=October 2, 2023 |website=www.swarthmore.edu |language=en}}</ref> The book was a National Book Award finalist, as well as one of the top ten best non-fiction books of the decade by the Boston Public Library.
In the book she tries to temporarily turn off her own moral alarm system, listen, and then "translate" the messages of the right to those on the left. "<ref>{{Cite web |last=Plumer |first=Brad |date=October 25, 2016 |title=What a liberal sociologist learned from spending five years in Trump's America |url=https://www.vox.com/2016/9/6/12803636/arlie-hochschild-strangers-land-louisiana-trump |access-date=March 2, 2022 |website=Vox}}</ref>


==Hochschild's sociological theories==
==Hochschild's sociological theories==
Hochschild has a personal fascination with the relationship between peoples inner experiences and outer appearance, so Mills’ concepts were very influential in the direction of her later works in studying emotion sociologically.


===Emotion in Social Life ===
===Emotion as a social norm===


Through her work, Hochschild proclaims that human emotions—joy, sadness, anger, elation, jealousy, envy, despair—are, in large part, social. Each culture, she argues, provides us with prototypes of feeling which, like the different keys on a piano, attune us to different inner notes. She provides an example of the Tahitians, who have one word, "sick," for what in other cultures might correspond to envy, depression, grief, or sadness.<ref name="Hochschild2003a">Hochschild, 2003a.</ref>
Through her work, Hochschild proclaims that human emotions—joy, sadness, anger, elation, jealousy, envy, despair—are, in large part, social. Each culture, she argues, provides us with prototypes of feeling which, like the different keys on a piano, attune us to different inner notes. She provides an example of the Tahitians, who have one word, "sick," for what in other cultures might correspond to envy, depression, grief, or sadness.<ref name="Hochschild2003a">Hochschild, 2003a.</ref>


Culture guides the act of recognizing a feeling by proposing what's possible for us to feel. In The Managed Heart, Hochschild cites the Czech novelist [[Milan Kundera]], who writes that the Czech word "litost" refers to an indefinable longing, mixed with remorse and grief—a constellation of feelings with no equivalent in any other language. It is not that non-Czechs never feel litost, she notes; it is that they are not, in the same way, invited to lift out and affirm the feeling.<ref name="Hochschild1983">Hochschild, 1983.</ref>
Culture guides the act of recognizing a feeling by proposing what's possible for us to feel. In The Managed Heart, Hochschild cites the Czech novelist [[Milan Kundera]], who writes that the Czech word "litost" refers to an indefinable longing, mixed with remorse and grief—a constellation of feelings with no equivalent in any other language. It is not that non-Czechs never feel litost, she notes; it is that they are not, in the same way, invited to lift out and affirm the feeling.<ref name="Hochschild1983">Hochschild, 1983.</ref>

Emotional expression and management are learned in the private sphere, then later through participation in public life.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Wharton | first1 = A. S. | year = 2011 | title = The Sociology of Arlie Hochschild | url = | journal = Work & Occupations | volume = 38 | issue = 4| pages = 459–464 }}</ref>


=== Feeling Rules ===
=== Feeling Rules ===
Hochschild also explores the concepts of ‘[[feeling rules]]’ and emotional labor as they relate to class structure and how it can vary based on economic or social class. For example, she argues that middle class families prepare their children for emotion management more than working class families.<ref name="Hochschild 1979 551–575">{{Cite journal |last=Hochschild |first=Arlie |date=1979 |title=Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/227049 |journal=American Journal of Sociology |volume=85 |issue=3 |pages=551–575 |doi=10.1086/227049 |s2cid=143485249 |via=JSTOR}}</ref> Similarly, the level of emotion management taught in a family is often related to the type of job the parent holds. A bank manager, for example, which is typically a middle class job, might need more ‘feeling rules’ than a working class job, which might instead involve more external behavior, such as assembling car parts. Overall, Hochschild argues that, “Given the general pattern of class inheritance, each class tends to prepare its children with the skills necessary to ‘its’ type of work environment and to pass on class-appropriate ways.”<ref name="Hochschild 1979 551–575" /> In other words, middle class parents tend to try to control feelings, whereas working class parents tend to control behavior and/or consequences. Overall, she claims that the way in which we are taught to manage our feelings and emotions can depend heavily on our economic class and how we are raised. &nbsp;
Hochschild also explores the concepts of ‘[[feeling rules]]’ and emotional labor as they relate to class structure and how it can vary based on economic or social class. Drawing on Erving Goffman, she introduces the "concept of "framing rules", which provide the context for feeling rules." An example that clarifies the relationship between framing rules and feeling rules would be: "The norm that women should be at home is a framing rule, while the norm to feel happy about being at home or to feel guilty about being absent, is a feeling rule."

In Hochschild's later work, she introduces the "concept of "framing rules", which provide the context for feeling rules." She explains that framing rules are the "rules governing how we see situations" and how they "point to the cognitive, meaningful, and interpretive frame within which feeling rules are situated." An example that clarifies the relationship between framing rules and feeling rules would be: "The norm that women should be at home is a framing rule, while the norm to feel happy about being at home or to feel guilty about being absent, is a feeling rule."


=== Surface acting and deep acting ===
=== Surface acting and deep acting ===
In the realm of [[emotional labor]], Hochschild introduces the concepts of Surface Acting and Deep Acting, describing distinct approaches to emotional regulation within the workplace. Surface Acting involves the outward display of emotions that do not authentically align with one's inner feelings, often required by professional obligations. Deep Acting entails the genuine experience and expression of emotions in accordance with the demands of the job. This framework has been influential in the study of emotional labor and organizational behavior. <ref name="Hochschild-2012" />
In the realm of [[emotional labor]], Hochschild introduces the concepts of Surface Acting and Deep Acting, describing distinct approaches to emotional regulation within the workplace. Surface Acting involves the outward display of emotions that do not authentically align with one's inner feelings, often required by professional obligations. Deep Acting entails the genuine experience and expression of emotions in accordance with the demands of the job. Hochschild's explanation shows how people handle emotions at work, showing the various ways they manage and control feelings in professional settings. This framework has been influential in the study of emotional labor and organizational behavior. <ref name="Hochschild-2012" />


===Emotional labor===
===Emotional labor===
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===Work and family===
===Work and family===
In ''[[The Second Shift]]'', Hochschild argues that the family has been stuck in a "stalled revolution." Most mothers work for pay outside the home; that is the revolution. But the jobs they have and the men they come home to haven't changed as rapidly or deeply as she has; that is the stall. Mothers, specifically working mothers end up doing the lion's share of the work—both emotional and physical—of tending the home-- the "second shift" which often leads her to feel resentment. <ref name="Braverman-1990" /> Hochschild traces links between a couple's division of labor and their underlying "economy of gratitude." Who, she asks, is grateful to whom, and for what?<ref name="Hochschild1989">Hochschild, 1989.</ref> "<ref name="Braverman-1990">{{Cite journal|last=Braverman|first=Lois|date=December 1990|title=Book Reviews : The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. By Arlie Hochschild. New York: Viking Penguin, 1989, 309 pp., $18.95 (hardbound|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/088610999500500411|journal=Affilia|volume=5|issue=4|pages=111–113|doi=10.1177/088610999500500411|s2cid=143566176|issn=0886-1099}}</ref> meaning they will still take on the majority of domestic labor (Hochschild 1989)."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schulte |first=Brigid |date=August 16, 2014 |title=‘The Second Shift’ at 25: Q & A with Arlie Hochschild |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/08/06/the-second-shift-at-25-q-a-with-arlie-hochschild/ |url-status= |access-date=October 2, 2023 |website=The Washington Post}}</ref>


In other books, Hochschild applies her perspective on emotion to the American family. In ''[[The Second Shift]]'', she argues that the family has been stuck in a "stalled revolution." Most mothers work for pay outside the home; that is the revolution. But the jobs they have and the men they come home to haven't changed as rapidly or deeply as she has; that is the stall. Hochschild argues couples have implicit "gender ideologies" when they marry; the marital role that the women will take on the domestic duties within a home. Mothers, specifically working mothers end up doing the lion's share of the work—both emotional and physical—of tending the home, which leads her to feel resentment. Hence, when a mother is working full time during the day and must come home to perform the majority of the domestic work, this is her "second shift".<ref name="Braverman-1990" /> Hochschild traces links between a couple's division of labor and their underlying "economy of gratitude." Who, she asks, is grateful to whom, and for what?<ref name="Hochschild1989">Hochschild, 1989.</ref> Even those who can balance work and family life face some difficulties. This includes a variety of high-funded daycare options, jobs with little flexibility for missing work to care for a sick child, school schedules that are based on having a stay at home parent, and the assumption that mothers will work a "second shift,"<ref name="Braverman-1990">{{Cite journal|last=Braverman|first=Lois|date=December 1990|title=Book Reviews : The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. By Arlie Hochschild. New York: Viking Penguin, 1989, 309 pp., $18.95 (hardbound|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/088610999500500411|journal=Affilia|volume=5|issue=4|pages=111–113|doi=10.1177/088610999500500411|s2cid=143566176|issn=0886-1099}}</ref> meaning they will still take on the majority of domestic labor (Hochschild 1989). To be clear, Hochschild doesn't “advocate a simple return to traditional motherhood.” Instead, she is pushing for more equality of roles in society: for both genders to share the responsibilities of home life, creating a more manageable balance for mothers.<ref name="Labor">{{Cite web |last=Labor |first=Peter MeiksinsTopics |date=February 1, 1998 |title=Monthly Review {{!}} Confronting the Time Bind |url=https://monthlyreview.org/1998/02/01/confronting-the-time-bind/ |access-date=March 2, 2022 |website=Monthly Review |language=en-US}}</ref> On the twenty fifth anniversary of ''The Second Shift,'' Hochschild did an interview with the Washington Post about the impact and legacy of the book. She claimed that we are now in the "second stall" and that progress has been made. In the original book, Hochschild claimed that there are three stalls, what happens to men, what happens in the workplace, and missing government help. Hochschild said, "Today, I think we are in stall number two. There’s good news, there’s old bad news and there’s new bad news. And the good news, is that, the revolution continues and women are now half the labor force and they’ve moved up in it, they’ve earned more. And have gotten into more training, and broken ranks in a number of professions. And men have changed substantially. We’re all beginning to understand that the family has been a shock absorber of larger trends. And we’re finally seeing that these are not individual, private problems, but that they point to a larger cause."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schulte |first=Brigid |date=August 16, 2014 |title=‘The Second Shift’ at 25: Q & A with Arlie Hochschild |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/08/06/the-second-shift-at-25-q-a-with-arlie-hochschild/ |url-status= |access-date=October 2, 2023 |website=The Washington Post}}</ref>
In ''[[The Time Bind]]'', Hochschild studied working parents at a [[Fortune 500]] company dealing with an important contradiction. On one hand, nearly everyone she talked to told her that "my family comes first."<ref name="Hochschild2001">Hochschild, 2001.</ref> However,"<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 40384312|last1 = Kasmir|first1 = Sharryn|title = Reviewed work: The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work, Arlie Russell Hochschild|journal = Science & Society|volume = 63|issue = 3|pages = 380–382|year = 1999}}</ref> for about a fifth of these working parents, she found, home felt like work and work felt like home. When she asked informants "Where do you get help when you need it?" or "Where are you most rewarded for what you do, work or home?" often the answer was work. One man told her, "When I'm doing the right thing with my teenage son, chances are he's giving me hell for it. When I'm doing the right thing at work, my boss is clapping me on my back."<ref name="Hochschild2001" /> She found, handled this strain in several ways. One way was to reduce their idea of what they needed. ("Oh, I don't really need time."

In ''[[The Time Bind]]'', Hochschild studied working parents at a [[Fortune 500]] company dealing with an important contradiction. On one hand, nearly everyone she talked to told her that "my family comes first."<ref name="Hochschild2001">Hochschild, 2001.</ref> However, she argues that working parents in the United States put in long hours at work not because "employers demand long hours nor out of financial need, but because their work lives are more rewarding than their home lives."<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 40384312|last1 = Kasmir|first1 = Sharryn|title = Reviewed work: The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work, Arlie Russell Hochschild|journal = Science & Society|volume = 63|issue = 3|pages = 380–382|year = 1999}}</ref> For this reason, working parents feel a magnetic draw to work. For about a fifth of these working parents, she found home felt like work and work felt like home. When she asked informants "Where do you get help when you need it?" or "Where are you most rewarded for what you do, work or home?" often the answer was work. One man told her, "When I'm doing the right thing with my teenage son, chances are he's giving me hell for it. When I'm doing the right thing at work, my boss is clapping me on my back."<ref name="Hochschild2001" /> She found, handled this strain in several ways. One way was to reduce their idea of what they needed. ("Oh, I don't really need time to unwind.") Another was to outsource personal tasks. A third was to develop an imaginary self, the self you would be if only you had time.<ref name="Hochschild2001" /> The "time bind" refers to the lack of time parents had to themselves, the feeling that they were always running late, and the thought that they were confined to the limited hours of the day.<ref>Hochschild, A. R. (2006). Chapter 33: The Time Bind. In, Inequality Reader: Contemporary & Foundational Readings in Race, Class, & Gender (pp. 284–289). Perseus Books, LLC.</ref> Thus, in the "time bind" Hochschild denotes this paradox of "reversed worlds, in which family becomes like work and work takes on the feel and tone of the family."<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1177/0730888411418921|title = The Sociology of Arlie Hochschild| journal=Work and Occupations| volume=38| issue=4| pages=459–464|year = 2011|last1 = Wharton|first1 = Amy S.|s2cid = 145525401}}</ref>

Hochschild goes on to “suggest that the flight into work is coerced at least as much as it is voluntary.” Because of a pervading feeling of dissatisfaction in home life, and a greater sense of home being given at work, Americans have taken refuge in their work more than ever before.<ref name="Labor"/> Hochschild described a friend on maternity leave who felt that her time at home with her newborn was at the expense of ‘sacrificing’ time at work. Furthermore, Hochschild acknowledges that this discontent with home life prompts more questions such as, “What kind of gratification do people get when they commit to the workplace as an alternative to the dissatisfactions of home life? And, why are people dissatisfied at home?” She does mention that one component could include the fact that contemporary managerial practices have started emphasizing a cohesive workplace family and a unified corporate culture”.<ref name="Labor" />

Ultimately, Hochschild hopes for a society where “the desire to work doesn’t automatically trump the desire to raise children.” In order for this shift to occur, she argues, there is a need to challenge the culture of time as a measure of work commitment. This would involve a greater awareness of a variety of needs and preferences of working parents.<ref name="Labor"/>
Ultimately, Hochschild hopes for a society where “the desire to work doesn’t automatically trump the desire to raise children.” In order for this shift to occur, she argues, there is a need to challenge the culture of time as a measure of work commitment. This would involve a greater awareness of a variety of needs and preferences of working parents.<ref name="Labor"/>

In an interview with ''Journal of Consumer Culture'', Hochschild describes how capitalism plays a role in one's "imaginary self". She explains, "Many workers put in long hours, and return home exhausted. They turn to television as a form of passive 'recovery' from work. In the four hours of television, they're exposed to thousands of amusing, fun advertisements. Those ads function as a conveyor belt to the mall. At the mall, they spend the money they've earned on objects that function as totems to a 'potential self' or hypothetical self – a self we would be if only we had time". It is also a self in danger of being perpetually in emotional debt to loved ones.<ref name="Wilson" />
In an interview with ''Journal of Consumer Culture'', Hochschild describes how capitalism plays a role in one's "imaginary self". She explains, "Many workers put in long hours, and return home exhausted. They turn to television as a form of passive 'recovery' from work. In the four hours of television, they're exposed to thousands of amusing, fun advertisements. Those ads function as a conveyor belt to the mall. At the mall, they spend the money they've earned on objects that function as totems to a 'potential self' or hypothetical self – a self we would be if only we had time". It is also a self in danger of being perpetually in emotional debt to loved ones.<ref name="Wilson" />


===Politics and emotion===
===Politics and emotion===
'Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right'']], is based on five years of immersion research among Louisiana supporters of the [[Tea Party movement|Tea Party]]. It explores the role of emotion in politics by first posing a paradox. Why she asks, do residents of the nation's second poorest state vote for candidates who resist federal help? Why in a highly polluted state, do they vote for politicians reluctant to regulate polluting industries? Her search for answers leads her to the concept of the "deep story." A deep story is a story that feels true about a highly salient feature of life. One takes facts out of a deep story. One takes moral precepts out of the deep story. What remains is simply what feels true about a highly salient issue, and can be described through a metaphor, as the experience of "waiting in line" for a valued reward, and witnessing unwelcome "line-cutters." Everyone, she argues, has a deep story—and for many on the right, it reflects a keen sense of decline, the sting of scorn, and the sense of being a stranger in one's land. These people have waited a long time to get what they want and now people are coming into America with more progressive beliefs and taking their possible chances away from them. In this situation, Hochschild believes the reward for this line is  a metaphor for the American Dream. Hochschild believes that the people living in this area are “insulated” in their ideas and beliefs. Similarly, the way the media depicts these people creates a strong narrative about them and their conservative beliefs (Zussman).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Zussman |first=Robert |date=October 5, 2017 |title=Arlie Hochschild, Strangers in the Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, a Journey to the Heart of Our Political Divide |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-017-0177-y |journal=Society |volume=54 |issue=5}}</ref>
Hochschild describes herself as politically liberal and religiously agnostic. Her latest book, [[Strangers in Their Own Land|''Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right'']], is based on five years of immersion research among Louisiana supporters of the [[Tea Party movement|Tea Party]]. It explores the role of emotion in politics by first posing a paradox. Why she asks, do residents of the nation's second poorest state vote for candidates who resist federal help? Why in a highly polluted state, do they vote for politicians reluctant to regulate polluting industries? Her search for answers leads her to the concept of the "deep story." A deep story is a story that feels true about a highly salient feature of life. One takes facts out of a deep story. One takes moral precepts out of the deep story. What remains is simply what feels true about a highly salient issue, and can be described through a metaphor, as the experience of "waiting in line" for a valued reward, and witnessing unwelcome "line-cutters." Everyone, she argues, has a deep story—and for many on the right, it reflects a keen sense of decline, the sting of scorn, and the sense of being a stranger in one's land. These people have waited a long time to get what they want and now people are coming into America with more progressive beliefs and taking their possible chances away from them. In this situation, Hochschild believes the reward for this line is  a metaphor for the American Dream. Hochschild believes that the people living in this area are “insulated” in their ideas and beliefs. Similarly, the way the media depicts these people creates a strong narrative about them and their conservative beliefs (Zussman).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Zussman |first=Robert |date=October 5, 2017 |title=Arlie Hochschild, Strangers in the Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, a Journey to the Heart of Our Political Divide |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-017-0177-y |journal=Society |volume=54 |issue=5}}</ref>


In a 2020 OpEd for ''[[The Guardian]]'', she proposes the concept of "emotional strategy"—a strategy of focusing primarily on emotion—which many politicians pursue as a minor part of an overall strategy, and others pursue as a central project.<ref>{{Cite web|date=September 2, 2020|title=The secret to Donald Trump's electoral strategy? Emotion, not policy {{!}} Arlie Russell Hochschild|url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/02/donald-trump-strategy-republican-national-convention|access-date=January 4, 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> She has added other "chapters" to the deep story that have occurred since 2016, which she relates in an interview Derik Thompson conducted with her in "The Deep Story of Trumpism" for the Atlantic Monthly.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Thompson|first=Derek|date=December 29, 2020|title=The Deep Story of Trumpism|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/deep-story-trumpism/617498/|access-date=January 4, 2021|website=The Atlantic|language=en}}</ref>
In a 2020 OpEd for ''[[The Guardian]]'', she proposes the concept of "emotional strategy"—a strategy of focusing primarily on emotion—which many politicians pursue as a minor part of an overall strategy, and others pursue as a central project.<ref>{{Cite web|date=September 2, 2020|title=The secret to Donald Trump's electoral strategy? Emotion, not policy {{!}} Arlie Russell Hochschild|url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/02/donald-trump-strategy-republican-national-convention|access-date=January 4, 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> She has added other "chapters" to the deep story that have occurred since 2016, which she relates in an interview Derik Thompson conducted with her in "The Deep Story of Trumpism" for the Atlantic Monthly.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Thompson|first=Derek|date=December 29, 2020|title=The Deep Story of Trumpism|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/deep-story-trumpism/617498/|access-date=January 4, 2021|website=The Atlantic|language=en}}</ref>


Hochschild's [[The Second Shift|work]] also describes the many ways in which each individual becomes a shock absorber of larger forces and focuses on the impact of these forces on emotion.
Hochschild's [[The Second Shift|work]] also describes the many ways in which each individual becomes a shock absorber of larger forces and focuses on the impact of these forces on emotion.

In Global Woman, co-edited with Barbara Ehrenreich, she develops the concept of "global care chains" -- in which women from the global South, leave their own children in care of family members and perhaps local care givers while they care for the children of working mothers in the global North.<ref>{{Citation|last1=Parekh|first1=Serena|title=Feminist Perspectives on Globalization|date=2020|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2020/entries/feminism-globalization/|encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|editor-last=Zalta|editor-first=Edward N.|edition=Spring 2020|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University|access-date=October 19, 2021|last2=Wilcox|first2=Shelley}}</ref> (Hochschild 2000, 2002)
Looking again at Hochschild's concept of "global care chains," there have been more initiatives to feminize global migration with a concentration on these care chains.<ref>{{Citation|last1=Parekh|first1=Serena|title=Feminist Perspectives on Globalization|date=2020|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2020/entries/feminism-globalization/|encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|editor-last=Zalta|editor-first=Edward N.|edition=Spring 2020|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University|access-date=October 19, 2021|last2=Wilcox|first2=Shelley}}</ref> (Hochschild 2000, 2002) When northern or Western women enter the paid labor market, they typically hire other women to care for their children and other dependents, most often what is considered a more poor woman from a developing country. Migrant caregivers are regularly forced to abandon their children in their home countries to be cared for by even destitute caregivers or family members who are already caring for others or working. The growth of global care networks has been impacted because of several reasons. In affluent countries, the entry of women into labor has resulted in high demand for paid domestic employees, with no corresponding increases in public childcare or gender-based distribution of extra requirements.


=== Disengagement theory ===
=== Disengagement theory ===

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Arlie Russell Hochschild
Hochschild in 2017
Born
Arlie Russell

(1940-01-15) January 15, 1940 (age 84)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSwarthmore College(BA)(1962)
University of California-Berkeley (MA(1965), PhD(1969))
Known forThe Second Shift, The Managed Heart, Strangers in Their Own Land, The Time Bind, Emotional labor, Gender division of labor in the household
SpouseAdam Hochschild
ChildrenDavid Russell and Gabriel Russell
Scientific career
FieldsSocial Psychology, Sociology of Emotions, Gender and Politics
InstitutionsUniversity of California-Berkeley

Arlie Russell Hochschild (/ˈhkʃɪld/; born January 15, 1940) is an American professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley[1] and writer. Hochschild has long focused on the human emotions that underlie moral beliefs, practices, and social life generally. She is the author of ten books including the forthcoming Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame and the Rise of the Right (The New Press, Sept 10, 2024), a follow-up to her last book,"Strangers in Their Own Land; Anger and Mourning on the American Right., a New York Times Bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award. In these and other books, she continues the sociological tradition of C. Wright Mills by drawing links between private troubles and public issues.[2] In drawing this link, she has tried to illuminate the ways we recognize, attend to, appraise, evoke and suppress-- that is to say, manage-- emotion. She has applied this focus to the family, to work and to politics. [3] Her works have been translated into 17 languages (World Affairs).[citation needed] She is also the author of a children's book titled Coleen The Question Girl, illustrated by Gail Ashby. [4]


Biography

Early life and family background

Arlie Hochschild was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Ruth Alene (Libbey) and Francis Henry Russell, a diplomat who served in Israel, New Zealand, Ghana, and Tunisia.[5] In her 2016 book, Strangers in Their Own Land, Hochschild says that her first experiences reaching out and getting to know people different from her stem from own fantasy that she was her dad's helper. [6] Hochschild grew up in a household where her mother was the primary caregiver and her father was the provider. Her mother "volunteered for the PTA, and helped start a preschool program in Montgomery County, Maryland, all the while supporting [her] father's job as a government official".[7]

In Hochschild's early life, she became fascinated with the boundaries people draw between inner experience and outer appearance. Living internationally at a young age challenged her to see the world in a unique way. As she writes in the preface to her book The Managed Heart: the Commercialization of Human Feeling, "I found myself passing a dish of peanuts among many guests and looking up at their smiles; diplomatic smiles can look different when seen from below than when seen straight on. Afterward, I would listen to my mother and father interpret various gestures. The tight smile of the Bulgarian emissary, the averted glance of the Chinese consul . . . I learned to convey messages not simply from person to person but from Sofia to Washington, from Peking to Paris, and from Paris to Washington. Had I passed the peanuts to a person, I wondered, or to an actor? Where did the person end and the act begin? Just how is a person related to an act?"[8] The Managed Heart: the Commercialization of Human Feeling explores how we grapple with the emotions we are truly feeling versus the emotions we think we are supposed to feel.[9]

Hochschild has been married to her husband, writer Adam Hochschild, since June 1965. They met at a Quaker work camp in Spanish Harlem when she was 20 and he was 17. Although they aren’t practicing Quakers, they still like to embody some of the Quaker values, which are also what drew her to Swarthmore College.[10] Hochschild joined Swarthmore as a sophomore transfer student after spending one year at Victoria University in New Zealand. In 1964, she and her future husband joined the Civil Rights Movement in “civil rights work in Vicksburg, Miss.” [10] They raised two sons, David and Gabriel, and have two granddaughters.[citation needed]


Education and academic career

Hochschild graduated from Swarthmore College in 1962 with a major in International Relations.[10] and earned her M.A. (1965) and Ph.D.(1969) from the University of California, Berkeley, whose faculty she joined after teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from 1969–1971. As a graduate student, Hochschild was greatly inspired by the writings of well-known sociologists, Erving Goffman and C. Wright Mills. In White Collar, Mills argued that we "sell our personality." This resonated with Hochschild, however, she felt that more needed to be added. As she writes,

"Mills seemed to assume that in order to sell personality, one need only have it. Yet simply having personality does not make one a diplomat, any more than having muscles makes one an athlete. What was missing was a sense of the active emotional labor involved in the selling. This labor, it seemed to me, might be one part of a distinctly patterned yet invisible emotional system—a system composed of individual acts of 'emotion work,' social 'feeling rules,' and a great variety of exchanges between people in private and public life."[citation needed] In her work she's tried to illuminate aspects of this system.


Politics

Although Hochschild identifies as more “left-leaning” politically, she has tried to "climb an empathy wall" to those who feel very differently, and to study other such "climbers." [citation needed] For Strangers in Their Own Land – Anger and Mourning on the American Right, she spent over five years getting to know deeply conservative voters in Lake Charles, Louisiana.[11] The book was a National Book Award finalist, as well as one of the top ten best non-fiction books of the decade by the Boston Public Library.

In the book she tries to temporarily turn off her own moral alarm system, listen, and then "translate" the messages of the right to those on the left. "[12]

Hochschild's sociological theories

Hochschild has a personal fascination with the relationship between peoples inner experiences and outer appearance, so Mills’ concepts were very influential in the direction of her later works in studying emotion sociologically.

Emotion as a social norm

Through her work, Hochschild proclaims that human emotions—joy, sadness, anger, elation, jealousy, envy, despair—are, in large part, social. Each culture, she argues, provides us with prototypes of feeling which, like the different keys on a piano, attune us to different inner notes. She provides an example of the Tahitians, who have one word, "sick," for what in other cultures might correspond to envy, depression, grief, or sadness.[13]

Culture guides the act of recognizing a feeling by proposing what's possible for us to feel. In The Managed Heart, Hochschild cites the Czech novelist Milan Kundera, who writes that the Czech word "litost" refers to an indefinable longing, mixed with remorse and grief—a constellation of feelings with no equivalent in any other language. It is not that non-Czechs never feel litost, she notes; it is that they are not, in the same way, invited to lift out and affirm the feeling.[14]

Emotional expression and management are learned in the private sphere, then later through participation in public life.[15]

Feeling Rules

Hochschild also explores the concepts of ‘feeling rules’ and emotional labor as they relate to class structure and how it can vary based on economic or social class. For example, she argues that middle class families prepare their children for emotion management more than working class families.[16] Similarly, the level of emotion management taught in a family is often related to the type of job the parent holds. A bank manager, for example, which is typically a middle class job, might need more ‘feeling rules’ than a working class job, which might instead involve more external behavior, such as assembling car parts. Overall, Hochschild argues that, “Given the general pattern of class inheritance, each class tends to prepare its children with the skills necessary to ‘its’ type of work environment and to pass on class-appropriate ways.”[16] In other words, middle class parents tend to try to control feelings, whereas working class parents tend to control behavior and/or consequences. Overall, she claims that the way in which we are taught to manage our feelings and emotions can depend heavily on our economic class and how we are raised.  

In Hochschild's later work, she introduces the "concept of "framing rules", which provide the context for feeling rules." She explains that framing rules are the "rules governing how we see situations" and how they "point to the cognitive, meaningful, and interpretive frame within which feeling rules are situated." An example that clarifies the relationship between framing rules and feeling rules would be: "The norm that women should be at home is a framing rule, while the norm to feel happy about being at home or to feel guilty about being absent, is a feeling rule."

Surface acting and deep acting

In the realm of emotional labor, Hochschild introduces the concepts of Surface Acting and Deep Acting, describing distinct approaches to emotional regulation within the workplace. Surface Acting involves the outward display of emotions that do not authentically align with one's inner feelings, often required by professional obligations. Deep Acting entails the genuine experience and expression of emotions in accordance with the demands of the job. Hochschild's explanation shows how people handle emotions at work, showing the various ways they manage and control feelings in professional settings. This framework has been influential in the study of emotional labor and organizational behavior. [9]

Emotional labor

"Emotional labor", a term first defined by Hochschild, refers to the management of one's feelings and expressions based on the emotional requirements of a job.[14] For example, in The Managed Heart, Hochschild writes of how flight attendants are trained to control passengers' feelings during times of turbulence and dangerous situations while suppressing their fear or anxiety. Bill collectors, as well, are often trained to imagine debtors as lazy or dishonest, so they can feel suspicious and intimidating.[14] As the number of service jobs grows, so too does the amount of kinds of emotional labor. In the era of COVID-19, she argues, many front-line workers will do the emotional labor of suppressing heightened anxieties about their own health and that of their families while dealing with the fear, anxiety and sometimes hostility of the public.[17] Hochschild claims “that emotional labor is now in greater demand than ever before as our society moves from factories and the production of material goods to a service economy requiring more face-to-face interaction”.[18]

Hochschild also argues emotional labor has gone global. In her essay, "Love and Gold," in Global Woman she describes immigrant care workers who leave their children and elderly back in the Philippines, Mexico or elsewhere in the global South, to take paid jobs caring for the young and elderly in families in the affluent North. Such jobs call on workers to manage grief and anguish vis-a-vis their own long-unseen children, spouses, and elderly parents, even as they try to feel—and genuinely do feel—warm attachment to the children and elders they daily care for in the North. In an interview with Journal of Consumer Culture, Hochschild focuses on the emotional labor of female immigrants, "So you have women from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, India, and Mexico leaving their children and elderly behind to take jobs caring for American, Canadian, Saudi, and European children and elderly. It was also not uncommon to hear nannies say, 'I love the kids I take care of now more than my own. I hate to say it, but I do'".[19] "Extending from the eldest daughter in a rural village who takes care of siblings while a mother cares for an employer's children in the city of a poor country to that employer's employer—and children—in a rich country, outsourcing care work creates a global care chain with a different emotional task at each link of it."[20] Hochschild coined the term global care chain to refer to "a pattern of women leaving their own families in developing countries to care for the children of well-off families."[2] These networks are created by the worldwide exchange of domestic services, which connect women all over the world. She connects her ideas about emotional labor to Richard Sennett's concept about "hidden injuries". Hochschild writes:

"The idea of emotional labor—and of a sociology of emotions in general—helps illuminate the "hidden injuries," to quote Richard Sennett, of all the systems we study, including the latest versions of sexism, racism, and capitalism".[21]

Work and family

In other books, Hochschild applies her perspective on emotion to the American family. In The Second Shift, she argues that the family has been stuck in a "stalled revolution." Most mothers work for pay outside the home; that is the revolution. But the jobs they have and the men they come home to haven't changed as rapidly or deeply as she has; that is the stall. Hochschild argues couples have implicit "gender ideologies" when they marry; the marital role that the women will take on the domestic duties within a home. Mothers, specifically working mothers end up doing the lion's share of the work—both emotional and physical—of tending the home, which leads her to feel resentment. Hence, when a mother is working full time during the day and must come home to perform the majority of the domestic work, this is her "second shift".[22] Hochschild traces links between a couple's division of labor and their underlying "economy of gratitude." Who, she asks, is grateful to whom, and for what?[23] Even those who can balance work and family life face some difficulties. This includes a variety of high-funded daycare options, jobs with little flexibility for missing work to care for a sick child, school schedules that are based on having a stay at home parent, and the assumption that mothers will work a "second shift,"[22] meaning they will still take on the majority of domestic labor (Hochschild 1989). To be clear, Hochschild doesn't “advocate a simple return to traditional motherhood.” Instead, she is pushing for more equality of roles in society: for both genders to share the responsibilities of home life, creating a more manageable balance for mothers.[24] On the twenty fifth anniversary of The Second Shift, Hochschild did an interview with the Washington Post about the impact and legacy of the book. She claimed that we are now in the "second stall" and that progress has been made. In the original book, Hochschild claimed that there are three stalls, what happens to men, what happens in the workplace, and missing government help. Hochschild said, "Today, I think we are in stall number two. There’s good news, there’s old bad news and there’s new bad news. And the good news, is that, the revolution continues and women are now half the labor force and they’ve moved up in it, they’ve earned more. And have gotten into more training, and broken ranks in a number of professions. And men have changed substantially. We’re all beginning to understand that the family has been a shock absorber of larger trends. And we’re finally seeing that these are not individual, private problems, but that they point to a larger cause."[25]

In The Time Bind, Hochschild studied working parents at a Fortune 500 company dealing with an important contradiction. On one hand, nearly everyone she talked to told her that "my family comes first."[26] However, she argues that working parents in the United States put in long hours at work not because "employers demand long hours nor out of financial need, but because their work lives are more rewarding than their home lives."[27] For this reason, working parents feel a magnetic draw to work. For about a fifth of these working parents, she found home felt like work and work felt like home. When she asked informants "Where do you get help when you need it?" or "Where are you most rewarded for what you do, work or home?" often the answer was work. One man told her, "When I'm doing the right thing with my teenage son, chances are he's giving me hell for it. When I'm doing the right thing at work, my boss is clapping me on my back."[26] She found, handled this strain in several ways. One way was to reduce their idea of what they needed. ("Oh, I don't really need time to unwind.") Another was to outsource personal tasks. A third was to develop an imaginary self, the self you would be if only you had time.[26] The "time bind" refers to the lack of time parents had to themselves, the feeling that they were always running late, and the thought that they were confined to the limited hours of the day.[28] Thus, in the "time bind" Hochschild denotes this paradox of "reversed worlds, in which family becomes like work and work takes on the feel and tone of the family."[29]

Hochschild goes on to “suggest that the flight into work is coerced at least as much as it is voluntary.” Because of a pervading feeling of dissatisfaction in home life, and a greater sense of home being given at work, Americans have taken refuge in their work more than ever before.[24] Hochschild described a friend on maternity leave who felt that her time at home with her newborn was at the expense of ‘sacrificing’ time at work. Furthermore, Hochschild acknowledges that this discontent with home life prompts more questions such as, “What kind of gratification do people get when they commit to the workplace as an alternative to the dissatisfactions of home life? And, why are people dissatisfied at home?” She does mention that one component could include the fact that contemporary managerial practices have started emphasizing a cohesive workplace family and a unified corporate culture”.[24]

Ultimately, Hochschild hopes for a society where “the desire to work doesn’t automatically trump the desire to raise children.” In order for this shift to occur, she argues, there is a need to challenge the culture of time as a measure of work commitment. This would involve a greater awareness of a variety of needs and preferences of working parents.[24]

In an interview with Journal of Consumer Culture, Hochschild describes how capitalism plays a role in one's "imaginary self". She explains, "Many workers put in long hours, and return home exhausted. They turn to television as a form of passive 'recovery' from work. In the four hours of television, they're exposed to thousands of amusing, fun advertisements. Those ads function as a conveyor belt to the mall. At the mall, they spend the money they've earned on objects that function as totems to a 'potential self' or hypothetical self – a self we would be if only we had time". It is also a self in danger of being perpetually in emotional debt to loved ones.[19]

Politics and emotion

Hochschild describes herself as politically liberal and religiously agnostic. Her latest book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, is based on five years of immersion research among Louisiana supporters of the Tea Party. It explores the role of emotion in politics by first posing a paradox. Why she asks, do residents of the nation's second poorest state vote for candidates who resist federal help? Why in a highly polluted state, do they vote for politicians reluctant to regulate polluting industries? Her search for answers leads her to the concept of the "deep story." A deep story is a story that feels true about a highly salient feature of life. One takes facts out of a deep story. One takes moral precepts out of the deep story. What remains is simply what feels true about a highly salient issue, and can be described through a metaphor, as the experience of "waiting in line" for a valued reward, and witnessing unwelcome "line-cutters." Everyone, she argues, has a deep story—and for many on the right, it reflects a keen sense of decline, the sting of scorn, and the sense of being a stranger in one's land. These people have waited a long time to get what they want and now people are coming into America with more progressive beliefs and taking their possible chances away from them. In this situation, Hochschild believes the reward for this line is  a metaphor for the American Dream. Hochschild believes that the people living in this area are “insulated” in their ideas and beliefs. Similarly, the way the media depicts these people creates a strong narrative about them and their conservative beliefs (Zussman).[30]

In a 2020 OpEd for The Guardian, she proposes the concept of "emotional strategy"—a strategy of focusing primarily on emotion—which many politicians pursue as a minor part of an overall strategy, and others pursue as a central project.[31] She has added other "chapters" to the deep story that have occurred since 2016, which she relates in an interview Derik Thompson conducted with her in "The Deep Story of Trumpism" for the Atlantic Monthly.[32]

Hochschild's work also describes the many ways in which each individual becomes a shock absorber of larger forces and focuses on the impact of these forces on emotion.

Looking again at Hochschild's concept of "global care chains," there have been more initiatives to feminize global migration with a concentration on these care chains.[33] (Hochschild 2000, 2002) When northern or Western women enter the paid labor market, they typically hire other women to care for their children and other dependents, most often what is considered a more poor woman from a developing country. Migrant caregivers are regularly forced to abandon their children in their home countries to be cared for by even destitute caregivers or family members who are already caring for others or working. The growth of global care networks has been impacted because of several reasons. In affluent countries, the entry of women into labor has resulted in high demand for paid domestic employees, with no corresponding increases in public childcare or gender-based distribution of extra requirements.

Disengagement theory

Hochschild critiqued the disengagement theory of aging. According to that theory, inevitably and universally, through disengagement, the individual experiences a social death before they experience physical death. This could be seen through an individual beginning to reduce the amount of "roles" they have in their life and society, leaving them with less obligations in their life, making it easier for them to accept a nearer death.[34] There are different "norms" of aging, she suggests, and ways of actually experiencing near-death and death. Specifically, Hochschild argues that the theory of disengagement itself is ‘unfalsifiable,’ partly because the conception or assessment of aging can vary based on the researcher and their constitution of aging. She also points out that a person’s age with implied relation to death and society’s stance towards disengagement is an independent variable, whereas the dependent variable is disengagement itself. In this way, the relation between age and disengagement can be modified.[35] In the low-income housing project she studied for her PhD Dissertation and later, The Unexpected Community, for example, the residents - a lively group of elderly midwestern women seemed to die un-disengaged, i.e "with their boots on." She even points out that “a higher proportion of women in their sixties actually have a larger "life space" than do those in their fifties.”[35] One example of this is that older women are more likely to see their children on the same or previous day than younger women, meaning they may have more opportunity for social engagement.[35] Across the world's cultures and sub-cultures, she suggests, groups and individuals differ in their ideals of aging. These various groups of people and individuals have differences in the feeling rules they apply to their experience of aging, dying and death. Thus leading to them all experiencing these phenomena, dying and death, differently.[36] However, it is important to note that she has considered the fact that disengagement has happened in all aspects of life thorough all time. She quotes "it must happen sometime in the individual's future if it is not happening now; it is also intrinsic, which I take to mean that social factors alone do not cause it".[34]

Honors

Hochschild has received eight Honorary Doctoral Degrees from, respectively, Harvard University, 2021, Swarthmore College, 1993, Aalborg University, 2004 (Denmark), the University of Oslo, 2000, (Norway), the University of Lapland, 2012, (Finland), Mount St. Vincent University, 2013 (Canada), Westminster College (Pennsylvania), 2018 (US) and University of Lausanne, 2018 (Switzerland). She also received the Ulysses Medal from University College Dublin, 2015 Ireland, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society, 2021.[citation needed]

Hochschild has also been recognized for her work as an educator. She won the Distinguished Teaching Award for the Division of Social Sciences 2000–2001, University of California, Berkeley (August 2001) and the Outstanding Teacher Award, University of California, Berkeley (1968).[citation needed]

Hochschild was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award for Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right and the book was a New York Times Bestseller. The book was also listed by the New York Times as one of "6 Books to Help Understand Trump's Win" (November 9, 2016.) She was also awarded a prize for this book (translated by Xia Fan and published by SSAP) in 2020 by the Beijing News Book Review, Beijing, Mainland China.[citation needed]

Hochschild has also won Guggenheim, Fulbright and Mellon fellowships, and three awards granted by the American Sociological Association—the Charles Cooley Award (for The Managed Heart) the Jessie Bernard Award (for The Second Shift, The Time Bind and Global Woman), and the Award for Public Understanding of Sociology (for lifetime achievement). In awarding Hochschild the Jessie Bernard Award, she was observed for her "creative genius for framing questions and lines of insight, often condensed into memorable, paradigm-shifting words and phrases."[citation needed]

Arlie Hochschild at the California Hall of Fame induction ceremony, on December 13, 2022, in Sacramento.

The Managed Heart, The Second Shift, The Time Bind, and Strangers In Their Own Land have been named "Notable Books of the Year" by The New York Times. The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the "Best Books of 2012." The last chapter was excerpted in The New York Times (May 5, 2012). In 2022, Hochschild was inducted into the California Hall of Fame.[citation needed]

Quotes

"Most women without children spend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework and child care. Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a "leisure gap" between them at home. Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a "second shift" at home."[citation needed]

"The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us."[citation needed] "For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home- pride in our accomplishments, laughter and fun, relationships that aren't complex- we sometimes experience most often in the office. Bosses applaud us when we do a good job. Co-workers become a kind of family we feel we fit into."[citation needed] "The deal we made with the workplace wasn't made with families in mind: to work year-round in eight hour workdays through thick and thin, newborns, normal childhood illnesses, difficulties at school, elderly people getting sick. In whose interest is this? And can't we change it, making of two nine-hour days three six hour days, creating an extra job and making life livable for everyone?"[37][unreliable source?]

"It is not that we have the truth and they have the norms. We have norms too. Weber, Marx, Durkheim, Simmel, Tönnies, Horkheimer, Fromm – all of us have norms. But as sociologists, we don't just have norms. We use norms. They are our research tools, our measuring rods, and with those in hand, we get surprised, and dismayed by many things. In fact, for me, the very best of sociology is animated by a deeply disciplined dismay – its true of all the greats."[38]

"For the left, the flashpoint is up the class ladder (between the very top and the rest); for the right, it is down between the middle class and the poor. For the left, the flashpoint is centered in the private sector; for the right, in the public sector. Ironically, both call for an honest day's pay for an honest day's work."[citation needed]

"The power to define what is appropriate or inappropriate emotional display is held by those who occupy positions of power."[citation needed]

Legacy

Within sociology, Hochschild is known as the founder of the sociology of emotion and, outside of it, as a public sociologist, contributing to publications, such as The New York Times op-ed page and Book Review, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, The American Prospect, Harper's Magazine, The Progressive and The New York Review of Books.[citation needed]

Concepts developed by Hochschild, such as "emotional labor," "feeling rules", the "economy of gratitude," and "global care chains" have been adopted by scholars in a range of disciplines. Capturing a range of research and debate, a collection published in 2011, At the Heart of Work and Family: Engaging the Ideas of Arlie Hochschild, critically explores some of her key concepts.[39]

Another collection of papers devoted to her work is Pathways to Empathy: New Studies on Commodification, Emotional Labor and Time Binds (2013) edited by Gertraud Koch and Stephanie Everke Buchanan (Campus Verlag-Arbeit und Alltag, University of Chicago Press). The book is based on papers given at an "International Workshop in Honour of Hochschild" at Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany (November 12–13, 2011).[citation needed]

A monograph by Madalena d'Oliviera-Martins entitled Arlie Russell Hochschild: Un Camino Hacia El Corazon De La Sociologia explores the main ideas found in her work. (Centro de Investigaciones Sociologicas, Monograph 309, 242 ps, Montalban, 8, 28014, Madrid, Spain, 2018).[citation needed] Her work appears in 16 languages.[citation needed]

"Hochschildian Sociology"

Through research and education on her various social theories, some students and sociologists have come to practice what they call "Hochschildian Sociology" in which they build on her ideas, as proposed in At the Heart of Work and Family: Engaging The Ideas of Arlie Hochschild. [40]

In 2021 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[41] Additionally, she has been a member of the American Sociological Association, the Gerontological Society of America, the Sociological Research Association, the Sociologists for Women in Society, and the American Federation of Teachers.

Bibliography

Books

  • Hochschild, Arlie Russell (1973). The unexpected community. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-936385-6.
  • The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. University of California Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0-520-05454-7.
  • The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home. Viking. 1989. ISBN 978-0-670-82463-2.
  • The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work. Metropolitan Books. 1997. ISBN 978-0-8050-4471-3.
  • The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work. University of California Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-520-21488-0.
  • —; Ehrenreich, Barbara, eds. (2003). Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. Metropolitan Books. ISBN 978-0-8050-7509-0.
  • The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times. Metropolitan Books. 2012. ISBN 978-0-8050-8889-2.
  • So How's the Family? and Other Essays. University of California Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-520-27228-6.
  • —; Tronto, Joan; Gilligan, Carol (2013). Contre l'Indifférence Des Privilégiés: à Quoi Sert le Care (in French). Paris: Payot. ISBN 978-2-228-90877-1.
  • Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. The New Press. 2016. ISBN 978-1-62097-225-0.
  • Hochschild, Arlie (July 15, 2016). Coleen - The Question Girl. Blurb. ISBN 978-1-367-45897-0.
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See also

References

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Further reading

  • Greco, Monica, Carmen Leccardi, Roberta Sassatelli and Arlie Hochschild. "Roundtable on and with A. R. Hochschild, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia," October/December 2014, pp. 819–840.
  • Mazzarela, Marete. 2014. "How to Turn Emotions into Capital," Svenska Dagbladet (February 27).
  • Smith, Stephen. 2014. "Arlie Russell Hochschild: Spacious Sociologies of Emotion," Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents, (edited by Paul Adler, Paul du Gay, Glenn Morgan and Mike Reed).
  • Introduction by A. Grandey, in Emotional Labor in the 21st Century: Diverse Perspectives on Emotion Regulation at Work (2013) by Grandey, A., Diefendorff, J.A., & Rupp, D. (Eds.). New York, NY: Psychology Press/Routledge.
  • Kimmel, Sherri. 2013. "A Playful Spirit," Swarthmore College Bulletin, April, A Playful Spirit – Swarthmore College Bulletin.
  • Koch, Gertraud, & Stephanie Everke Buchanan (eds). 2013. Pathways to Empathy: New Studies on Commodification, Emotional Labor and Time Binds. Campus Verlag-Arbeit und Alltag, University of Chicago Press. (The book is based on papers given at an "International Workshop in Honour of Arlie Russell Hochschild," Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany (November 12–13, 2011).)
  • Garey, Anita Ilta and Karen V. Hansen. 2011. "Introduction: An Eye on Emotion in the Study of Families and Work." pp. 1–14 in At the Heart of Work and Family: Engaging the Ideas of Arlie Hochschild, edited by Anita Ilta Garey and Karen V. Hansen. New Brunswick: NJ.
  • Wharton, Amy S. 2011. "The Sociology of Arlie Hochschild", Work and Occupations, 38(4), pp. 459–464.
  • Alis, David. 2009. "Travail Emotionnel, Dissonance Emotionnelle, et Contrefaçon De I'Intimité: Vingt-Cinq Ans Après La Publication de Managed Heart d'Arlie R. Hochschild." in Politiques de L'Intime, edited by I. Berrebi-Hoffmann. Paris, France: Editions La Decouverte.
  • Sakiyama, Haruo. 2008. "Theoretical Contribution of Arlie Hochschild" (in Japanese). In Japanese Handbook of Sociology, edited by S. Inoue and K. Ito. Kyoto, Japan: Sekai-Shiso-Sya
  • Farganis, James. 2007. Readings in Social Theory: The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernism. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill.
  • Wilson, N. H., & Lande, B. J. 2005. Feeling Capitalism: A Conversation with Arlie Hochschild. Sage Publications, Ltd.
  • Skucinska, Anna. 2002. "Nowe Obszary Utowardowienia" (in Czech).
  • Adams, Bert N. and R.A. Sydie. 2001. Sociological Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
  • Hanninen, Vilma, Jukka Partanen, and Oili-Helena Ylijoki, eds. 2001. Sosiaalipsykologian Suunnannäyttäjiä. Tampere, Finland: Vastapaino.
  • Smith, Stephen Lloyd. 1999. "Arlie Hochschild: Soft-spoken Conservationist of Emotions: Review and Assessment of Arlie Hochschild's work," in Soundings, Issue 11 – Emotional Labour, Spring 1999, pp. 120–127.
  • Williams, Simon J. 1998. Chapter 18. pp. 240–251 in Key Sociological Thinkers, edited by R. Stones. New York: New York University Press.