408 - Plenary Session. Family Life in Hard Times

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

Harsh economic times have an impact on families, but the reverberations are not always well understood. In this session, Arlie Russell Hochschild discusses her most recent project on the tensions between free market policies and family life. David Harding illuminates how the release of prisoners influences not only the prisoners themselves but their families. Marianne Cooper explores the emotional work connected to economic insecurity. Her ethnographic study highlights the ways in which anxiety about financial security preoccupies affluent families in Silicon Valley as well as families with economic strain. Matthew Desmond traces the influence of evictions on the lives of children. Frank Furstenberg will preside over this Monday plenary.

Sub Unit

• Plenary and Presidential Panels

Session Organizer

• Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania

Presider

• Frank F. Furstenberg, University of Pennsylvania

Individual Presentations

• Do Free Market Policies Go with Family Values: The Research - Arlie Russell Hochschild, University of California-Berkeley

• Hard Times and Family Life after Prison - David Harding, University of Michigan

• How Families Cope with Hard Times: Using Emotions to Understand Inequality - Marianne Cooper, Stanford University

• Stability Costs too Much: Poor Families, Eviction, and the Affordable Housing Crisis - Matthew Desmond, Harvard University