Stacey J Oliker
Biographic Data
| ID | 136281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stacey J Oliker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stacey J |
| FAMILY NAME | Oliker |
| SIGNATURE | OLIKER S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sociology and Studies of Gender, Caregiving, and Inequality
This review focuses on scholarship that illuminates the ties between gendered care and persistent gender inequality. After an overview of work on gender and care across the disciplines, it examines sociologies of care and suggests how sociology might further enrich research and theory in this area. I explore the areas of work–family intersection, state care policy, and the organization of paid care work. I argue that the sociology of caregiving n…
Market Friendly or Family Friendly? The State and Gender Inequality in Old Age
Gender, Friendship and
The subject of gender and friendship links two fields of sociological scholarship. Gender was rarely a salient theme in pioneering studies of friendship, communities, and social networks that emerged in anthropology and sociology in the 1960s. By the 1980s, though, burgeoning gender scholarship in the social sciences ignited interest in gender and friendship. For the most part, the sociology of gender and friendship has explored how differences i…
Backlash Against Welfare Mothers
Grassroots Warriors
Challenges for Studying Care After AFDC
Caring and Gender
Under Attack, Fighting Back
Teen Mothers
Work Commitment and Constraint Among Mothers on Workfare
This article reports the findings of a study of single mothers who are mandated to participate in workfare programs. It examines how low-income single mothers become involved in paid work and how the structures of their personal lives and their strategies of parenthood in low-income urban environments shape their economic action. Interviews with workfare participants show how single mothers view their economic field of action and how they interpr…
The Proximate Contexts of Workfare and Work
This article provides a framework for examining how the conditions of urban, low-income, single motherhood and the resources available through personal networks shape mothers' conduct in work-welfare programs. It suggests how research on welfare programs ignores work-family linkages and misses the ways economic action is embedded in social structures and communal constraints. Three rubrics of proximate context, referring to personal networks, urb…
Does Workfare Work? Evaluation Research and Workfare Policy
The passage of the Family Support Act of 1988, mandating workfare for recipients ofAFDC, appears to have been influenced by a firm of program evaluation researchers. This paper examines the organization's research and presentation of findings to account for the unusual prominence of policy experts in the welfare policy domain. Evidence in this case suggests that effective mobilization and deployment of resources through interorganizational networ…
Best Friends and Marriage
In this fascinating book, Stacey Oliker delves into the intimate realm of women's friendships and explores the complex relation between friendship and family life. Based on a series of interviews with women from the middle and working classes, this work reveals the distinctive values of best friendship and marriage, how husbands and their wives' friends feel about each other, and how women friends talk about marriage problems. Best Friends and Ma…
Best Friends and Marriage
A Research Note on Friendship, Gender, and the Life Cycle
Journal Article A Research Note on Friendship, Gender, and the Life Cycle Get access Claude S. Fischer, Claude S. Fischer University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stacey J. Oliker Stacey J. Oliker University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 62, Issue 1, September 1983, Pages 124–133, https://doi.…
A Research Note on Friendship, Gender, and the Life Cycle
Journal Article A Research Note on Friendship, Gender, and the Life Cycle Get access Claude S. Fischer, Claude S. Fischer University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stacey J. Oliker Stacey J. Oliker University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 62, Issue 1, September 1983, Pages 124–133, https://doi.…
Does Workfare Work? Evaluation Research and Workfare Policy
The passage of the Family Support Act of 1988, mandating workfare for recipients ofAFDC, appears to have been influenced by a firm of program evaluation researchers. This paper examines the organization's research and presentation of findings to account for the unusual prominence of policy experts in the welfare policy domain. Evidence in this case suggests that effective mobilization and deployment of resources through interorganizational networ…
Work Commitment and Constraint Among Mothers on Workfare
This article reports the findings of a study of single mothers who are mandated to participate in workfare programs. It examines how low-income single mothers become involved in paid work and how the structures of their personal lives and their strategies of parenthood in low-income urban environments shape their economic action. Interviews with workfare participants show how single mothers view their economic field of action and how they interpr…
The Proximate Contexts of Workfare and Work
This article provides a framework for examining how the conditions of urban, low-income, single motherhood and the resources available through personal networks shape mothers' conduct in work-welfare programs. It suggests how research on welfare programs ignores work-family linkages and misses the ways economic action is embedded in social structures and communal constraints. Three rubrics of proximate context, referring to personal networks, urb…
Challenges for Studying Care After AFDC
Market Friendly or Family Friendly? The State and Gender Inequality in Old Age
Gender, Friendship and
The subject of gender and friendship links two fields of sociological scholarship. Gender was rarely a salient theme in pioneering studies of friendship, communities, and social networks that emerged in anthropology and sociology in the 1960s. By the 1980s, though, burgeoning gender scholarship in the social sciences ignited interest in gender and friendship. For the most part, the sociology of gender and friendship has explored how differences i…
Backlash Against Welfare Mothers
A Research Note on Friendship, Gender, and the Life Cycle
Journal Article A Research Note on Friendship, Gender, and the Life Cycle Get access Claude S. Fischer, Claude S. Fischer University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stacey J. Oliker Stacey J. Oliker University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 62, Issue 1, September 1983, Pages 124–133, https://doi.…
Best Friends and Marriage
Best Friends and Marriage
In this fascinating book, Stacey Oliker delves into the intimate realm of women's friendships and explores the complex relation between friendship and family life. Based on a series of interviews with women from the middle and working classes, this work reveals the distinctive values of best friendship and marriage, how husbands and their wives' friends feel about each other, and how women friends talk about marriage problems. Best Friends and Ma…
Does Workfare Work? Evaluation Research and Workfare Policy
The passage of the Family Support Act of 1988, mandating workfare for recipients ofAFDC, appears to have been influenced by a firm of program evaluation researchers. This paper examines the organization's research and presentation of findings to account for the unusual prominence of policy experts in the welfare policy domain. Evidence in this case suggests that effective mobilization and deployment of resources through interorganizational networ…
Work Commitment and Constraint Among Mothers on Workfare
This article reports the findings of a study of single mothers who are mandated to participate in workfare programs. It examines how low-income single mothers become involved in paid work and how the structures of their personal lives and their strategies of parenthood in low-income urban environments shape their economic action. Interviews with workfare participants show how single mothers view their economic field of action and how they interpr…
The Proximate Contexts of Workfare and Work
This article provides a framework for examining how the conditions of urban, low-income, single motherhood and the resources available through personal networks shape mothers' conduct in work-welfare programs. It suggests how research on welfare programs ignores work-family linkages and misses the ways economic action is embedded in social structures and communal constraints. Three rubrics of proximate context, referring to personal networks, urb…
Teen Mothers
Under Attack, Fighting Back
Caring and Gender
Grassroots Warriors
Challenges for Studying Care After AFDC
Backlash Against Welfare Mothers
Gender, Friendship and
The subject of gender and friendship links two fields of sociological scholarship. Gender was rarely a salient theme in pioneering studies of friendship, communities, and social networks that emerged in anthropology and sociology in the 1960s. By the 1980s, though, burgeoning gender scholarship in the social sciences ignited interest in gender and friendship. For the most part, the sociology of gender and friendship has explored how differences i…
Market Friendly or Family Friendly? The State and Gender Inequality in Old Age
Sociology and Studies of Gender, Caregiving, and Inequality
This review focuses on scholarship that illuminates the ties between gendered care and persistent gender inequality. After an overview of work on gender and care across the disciplines, it examines sociologies of care and suggests how sociology might further enrich research and theory in this area. I explore the areas of work–family intersection, state care policy, and the organization of paid care work. I argue that the sociology of caregiving n…
Sociology (11 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Welfare (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)