Stephen Sweet
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 121233 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen Sweet |
| NOMBRES | Stephen |
| APELLIDO | Sweet |
| FIRMA | SWEET S |
| AFILIACIONES | Ithaca College |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-4582-1718 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 241 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Program Review with the Curriculum Mapping Toolkit for Sociology
The American Sociological Association identified 12 major recommendations for the undergraduate major, which include 11 learning goals articulated in the sociological literacy framework. In total, these recommendations identified upward of 70 different curricular elements that optimal sociology programs should consider satisfying. This article shows how curriculum mapping combined with an organized set of resources (the Curriculum Mapping Toolkit…
Editor’s Comment
Handbook of Research on Comparative Human Resource Management
Advancing a Sociology‐of‐Knowledge Framework for the Study of Work–Family Scholarship
Encore Adulthood
Editors’ Comment
Manager attitudes concerning flexible work arrangements
Flexible work arrangements (FWAs) present a vehicle for supporting caregiving responsibilities, but have yet to be widely implemented, in part, because of limited support from managers. This study examines transformation of manager attitudes toward FWAs in the context of a change initiative. Panel surveys of 721 managers revealed positive and negative attitudes concerning the use of FWAs and predictors of changes in these attitudes. Over the cour…
Editor’s Comment
Hans O. Mauksch Address
While the popularity of the psychology major and the sociology major were comparable in 1970, sociology witnessed a decline while psychology witnessed expansion. This article considers strategies of expanding the popularity of the sociology major, considering data from a variety of sources. Primary recommendations are to configure programs to maximize prospects that students discover sociology early in their college careers and to limit the numbe…
Editor’s Comment
Editor’s Comment
Successes in Changing Flexible Work Arrangement Use
This study identifies factors associated with flexible work arrangement (FWA) use in the context of the 'Supervisor-Promoted Flexibility' program implemented by an employer in the financial activities supersector. This change initiative involved supervisor-initiated discussions that explored prospects for supervisee FWA use. Discussions increased the odds of FWA use expansion, but changes occurred at different rates among work units. Managers' ge…
Are women less career centric than men? Structure, culture, and identity investments
Some work/family scholars assume that gender differences in career centrality (i.e. the importance of career to one's identity) are a result of differential job characteristics and family demands; others trace these differences to pre-existing cultural orientations. Using the 2010 Generations of Talent data from 9210 employees working in 11 countries for 7 multinational companies, this study verifies the existence of gender differences in career …
The Work and Family Handbook
The Work and Family Handbook is a comprehensive edited volume, which reviews a wide range of disciplinary perspectives across the social sciences on the study of work-family relationships, theory, and methods. The changing demographics of the labor force has resulted in an expanded awareness and understanding of the intricate relations between work and family dimensions in people's lives. For the first time, the efforts of scholars working in mul…
Editor’s Comment
Editor’s Comment
Editor’s Comment
Editor’s Comment
The Work-Family Interface
This brief and accessible title integrates contemporary scholarly research with compelling vignettes to make it appealing to both instructors and undergraduate audiences. While focused on the United States in respect to its target audience and emphasis, it contains considerable international data that compares and contrasts social policies adopted in Europe and elsewhere. In so doing, it shows both the strengths and the limitations of the approac…
The Coordinated Curriculum
Content analysis of 77 college and university catalogs and department websites assesses conformity with select recommendations for the sociology major. The majority of institutions have programs that fulfill some recommendations examined, but the minority fulfills most of the recommendations. Some sociology programs are much more coordinated than others. Fewer than one in three institutions with sociology majors have programs that fully or nearly…
Testing the Flat World Thesis
We present a learning module to engage students in the global inequality debate using Google Public Data World Development Indicators. Goals of this article are to articulate the importance and urgency of teaching global issues to American students; situate the central debate in the globalization literature, paying particular attention to global inequalities and trajectories of convergence or divergence in life chances; and demonstrate the value …
Explaining organizational variation in flexible work arrangements
This study examines flexible work arrangement (FWA) availability in 2009 in a sample of 545 American employers. While most employers offer FWAs to some of their workforce, few offer these to the majority of their workers. Those employers that offer flexible work options tend to rely most heavily on flexibility in the scheduling and place of work. Seldom do organizations make options of reducing work and/or pausing work available to majority porti…
Do options for job flexibility diminish in times of economic uncertainty
This study explores the possibility that the 2008 economic recession affected the availability of flexible work arrangements by comparing two surveys of organizations in the USA, one conducted prior to the recession and the other after its onset. Adaptation and institutional perspectives are contrasted, revealing different expectations for the effects of economic tumult on the availability of flexible work arrangements. Greater support is found f…
Bonecrusher
Dual Earners Preparing for Job Loss
We draw on a two-wave panel survey and a third wave of in-depth interviews to study how 78 dual-earner couples prepared for job loss and the implications of preparation for resilience. We find personal and social resources predict preparation: those displaced workers who prepared had higher energy and higher incomes prior to job loss and also worked for employers who provided advance notification. Couples' egalitarian career strategies are associ…
From 'work-family' to 'flexible careers
In this paper we introduce key concepts that inform a life course perspective, including its focus on the temporal organization of career paths and life biographies. We demonstrate the value of a life course approach to theorizing about, studying, and considering work–family arrangements and their policy implications. To do so we draw primarily on findings from studies undertaken using the Ecology of Careers Study funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Fo…
Practicing Radical Pedagogy
Radical pedagogy requires adopting alternative grading practices, cultivating classroom dialogue, relegating considerable power to students, and promoting social activism as part of the class expectations. An overview of, Teaching Sociology, indicates that, probably, only a small minority of sociology teachers fully practice racial pedagogy. It is argued that college professors are free to teach racial theory, but that radical pedagogy is hindere…
Editor’s Comment
Cultivating Quantitative Literacy
Verbal/Symbolic Aggression in Couples
Murray A. Straus, Stephen Sweet, Verbal/Symbolic Aggression in Couples: Incidence Rates and Relationships to Personal Characteristics, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 54, No. 2 (May, 1992), pp. 346-357
The Coordinated Curriculum
Content analysis of 77 college and university catalogs and department websites assesses conformity with select recommendations for the sociology major. The majority of institutions have programs that fulfill some recommendations examined, but the minority fulfills most of the recommendations. Some sociology programs are much more coordinated than others. Fewer than one in three institutions with sociology majors have programs that fully or nearly…
Integrating Educational Careers in Work and Family
Educational careers are shaped by both work and family roles. This study compares middle-class dual-earner couples in which wives were currently returned to school (N = 124) with couples in which the wives had never returned to school (N = 866). These data are combined with additional in-depth interviews with 24 women who returned to school. Our life course perspective highlights why working women return to school, the resistance they experience …
Gendered Career Paths
The Family-Friendly Community and Its Life Course Fit for Dual-Earner Couples
Much is known about family-friendly workplaces. This article examines the less understood family-friendliness of the communities in which dual-earner couples reside. Using data from a representative sample of dual-earner couples (N = 727) in upstate New York, we examine how individual, couple, and neighborhood characteristics are associated with perceptions of community family-friendliness. Using a life course perspective, we find that couples wi…
Explaining organizational variation in flexible work arrangements
This study examines flexible work arrangement (FWA) availability in 2009 in a sample of 545 American employers. While most employers offer FWAs to some of their workforce, few offer these to the majority of their workers. Those employers that offer flexible work options tend to rely most heavily on flexibility in the scheduling and place of work. Seldom do organizations make options of reducing work and/or pausing work available to majority porti…
Imagined Communities
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, (London: New Left Books, 1983
Who Has the Advantages in My Intended Career
This article describes and assesses two learning modules designed to make students aware of gender and racial inequalities present in their own intended careers. Students identify their intended occupation in respect to the Standard Occupational Classification system and then use that code to determine the composition and earnings in that occupation with data provided. Analysis of student papers shows that this assignment contributes not only to …
Testing the Flat World Thesis
We present a learning module to engage students in the global inequality debate using Google Public Data World Development Indicators. Goals of this article are to articulate the importance and urgency of teaching global issues to American students; situate the central debate in the globalization literature, paying particular attention to global inequalities and trajectories of convergence or divergence in life chances; and demonstrate the value …
Do options for job flexibility diminish in times of economic uncertainty
This study explores the possibility that the 2008 economic recession affected the availability of flexible work arrangements by comparing two surveys of organizations in the USA, one conducted prior to the recession and the other after its onset. Adaptation and institutional perspectives are contrasted, revealing different expectations for the effects of economic tumult on the availability of flexible work arrangements. Greater support is found f…
Using a Mock Institutional Review Board to Teach Ethics in Sociological Research
Successes in Changing Flexible Work Arrangement Use
This study identifies factors associated with flexible work arrangement (FWA) use in the context of the 'Supervisor-Promoted Flexibility' program implemented by an employer in the financial activities supersector. This change initiative involved supervisor-initiated discussions that explored prospects for supervisee FWA use. Discussions increased the odds of FWA use expansion, but changes occurred at different rates among work units. Managers' ge…
Are women less career centric than men? Structure, culture, and identity investments
Some work/family scholars assume that gender differences in career centrality (i.e. the importance of career to one's identity) are a result of differential job characteristics and family demands; others trace these differences to pre-existing cultural orientations. Using the 2010 Generations of Talent data from 9210 employees working in 11 countries for 7 multinational companies, this study verifies the existence of gender differences in career …
Bluegrass music and its misguided representation of Appalachia
A focus on bluegrass music and the role it plays in shaping understandings of life in Appalachia. Following An examination what is and is not said in bluegrass music and a theory-grounded assessment of how bluegrass music potentially contributes to oppressive social relations in this historically poor region in the United States
Hans O. Mauksch Address
While the popularity of the psychology major and the sociology major were comparable in 1970, sociology witnessed a decline while psychology witnessed expansion. This article considers strategies of expanding the popularity of the sociology major, considering data from a variety of sources. Primary recommendations are to configure programs to maximize prospects that students discover sociology early in their college careers and to limit the numbe…
Editor’s Comment
Dual Earners Preparing for Job Loss
We draw on a two-wave panel survey and a third wave of in-depth interviews to study how 78 dual-earner couples prepared for job loss and the implications of preparation for resilience. We find personal and social resources predict preparation: those displaced workers who prepared had higher energy and higher incomes prior to job loss and also worked for employers who provided advance notification. Couples' egalitarian career strategies are associ…
Editors’ Comment
Manager attitudes concerning flexible work arrangements
Flexible work arrangements (FWAs) present a vehicle for supporting caregiving responsibilities, but have yet to be widely implemented, in part, because of limited support from managers. This study examines transformation of manager attitudes toward FWAs in the context of a change initiative. Panel surveys of 721 managers revealed positive and negative attitudes concerning the use of FWAs and predictors of changes in these attitudes. Over the cour…
Teaching Work and Family to Undergraduate Students
In 2006 and 2007, two workshops on teaching work-family courses were held at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association. This article examines the current challenges and strategies of teaching work-family, as identified by workshop participants, and the resources that are available through the Sloan Work and Family Research Network. Three concerns are considered: pedagogy, curriculum and programming. Analysis of syllabi, course …
Reassessing Radical Pedagogy
Imagined Communities
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, (London: New Left Books, 1983
Verbal/Symbolic Aggression in Couples
Murray A. Straus, Stephen Sweet, Verbal/Symbolic Aggression in Couples: Incidence Rates and Relationships to Personal Characteristics, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 54, No. 2 (May, 1992), pp. 346-357
Bluegrass music and its misguided representation of Appalachia
A focus on bluegrass music and the role it plays in shaping understandings of life in Appalachia. Following An examination what is and is not said in bluegrass music and a theory-grounded assessment of how bluegrass music potentially contributes to oppressive social relations in this historically poor region in the United States
Reassessing Radical Pedagogy
Practicing Radical Pedagogy
Radical pedagogy requires adopting alternative grading practices, cultivating classroom dialogue, relegating considerable power to students, and promoting social activism as part of the class expectations. An overview of, Teaching Sociology, indicates that, probably, only a small minority of sociology teachers fully practice racial pedagogy. It is argued that college professors are free to teach racial theory, but that radical pedagogy is hindere…
Using a Mock Institutional Review Board to Teach Ethics in Sociological Research
Data analysis with SPSS
From the Publisher: According to Labor Secretary, Robert Reich, the most successful workers in the 21st century will be those who are able to understand various forms of information and produce meaning from it. Reich calls these people symbolic analysts, and they often use statistics. Yet, many individuals find statistics alienating, boring, intimidating, or as simply another hurdle to get over. Contrary to popular belief, though, quantitative re…
College and Society
Toward a Sociological Imagination
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Contributors Chapter 3 The Framework: Chapter 4 Reconstructing the Scientific Method Chapter 5 a Reflexive Sociology: A Second Look Chapter 6 Building Bridges: Chapter 7 The Process of Secularization: Toward a Theory-Oriented Methodology Chapter 8 Small Group Processes and the Legitimization of Societal Stratification: From Experiments to the Operation of Groups in Natural Situations Chapter 9 Explaining Inequality Cha…
Data Analysis with SPSS
Data Analysis with SPSS is designed to teach students how to explore data in a systematic manner using the most popular professional social statistics program on the market today. Written in ten manageable chapters, this book first introduces students to the approach researchers use to frame research questions and the logic of establishing causal relations. Students are then oriented to the SPSS program and how to examine data sets. Subsequent ch…
The Family-Friendly Community and Its Life Course Fit for Dual-Earner Couples
Much is known about family-friendly workplaces. This article examines the less understood family-friendliness of the communities in which dual-earner couples reside. Using data from a representative sample of dual-earner couples (N = 727) in upstate New York, we examine how individual, couple, and neighborhood characteristics are associated with perceptions of community family-friendliness. Using a life course perspective, we find that couples wi…
From 'work-family' to 'flexible careers
In this paper we introduce key concepts that inform a life course perspective, including its focus on the temporal organization of career paths and life biographies. We demonstrate the value of a life course approach to theorizing about, studying, and considering work–family arrangements and their policy implications. To do so we draw primarily on findings from studies undertaken using the Ecology of Careers Study funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Fo…
Special Reviewers
Gendered Career Paths
Cultivating Quantitative Literacy
Integrating Educational Careers in Work and Family
Educational careers are shaped by both work and family roles. This study compares middle-class dual-earner couples in which wives were currently returned to school (N = 124) with couples in which the wives had never returned to school (N = 866). These data are combined with additional in-depth interviews with 24 women who returned to school. Our life course perspective highlights why working women return to school, the resistance they experience …
Teaching Work and Family to Undergraduate Students
In 2006 and 2007, two workshops on teaching work-family courses were held at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association. This article examines the current challenges and strategies of teaching work-family, as identified by workshop participants, and the resources that are available through the Sloan Work and Family Research Network. Three concerns are considered: pedagogy, curriculum and programming. Analysis of syllabi, course …
Politicizing Sociology Through A Bill of Rights Learning Module
The exercise described in this article was designed to help students reflect on their existing political beliefs and gauge the way acting on these beliefs may sway the alloca tion of social resources. It is intended help students move nascent perspectives on is sues of social justice into more firmly held stances. The innovative aspect of this exer cise is that it removes the professor from being in the role of "moral authority" as it asks studen…
Connecting Motherhood to Work
In this essay we consider how to teach the connections between women’sroles as mothers and as paid workers. Our interest is to identify curricula and pedagogies that can illuminate how societies define what working mothers should (or should not) do and the ways that institutionalized arrangements shape women’s experiences inside and outside the home. Although this topic can be of interest to a variety of audiences, our primary focus is on strateg…
Temporal and spatial patterns of anthropogenic disturbance at McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Human visitations to Antarctica have increased in recent decades, raising concerns about preserving the continent's environmental quality. To understand the spatial and temporal patterns of anthropogenic disturbances at the largest scientific station in Antarctica, McMurdo Station, a long-term monitoring program has been implemented. Results from the first nine years (1999–2007) of monitoring are reported. Most physical disturbance of land surfac…
Anticipated and unanticipated consequences of work-family policy
The origin of this special issue stems from a preconference held in conjunction with the 2009 International Community Work and Family Conference. With funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, J
Who Has the Advantages in My Intended Career
This article describes and assesses two learning modules designed to make students aware of gender and racial inequalities present in their own intended careers. Students identify their intended occupation in respect to the Standard Occupational Classification system and then use that code to determine the composition and earnings in that occupation with data provided. Analysis of student papers shows that this assignment contributes not only to …
Bonecrusher
Dual Earners Preparing for Job Loss
We draw on a two-wave panel survey and a third wave of in-depth interviews to study how 78 dual-earner couples prepared for job loss and the implications of preparation for resilience. We find personal and social resources predict preparation: those displaced workers who prepared had higher energy and higher incomes prior to job loss and also worked for employers who provided advance notification. Couples' egalitarian career strategies are associ…
The Work-Family Interface
This brief and accessible title integrates contemporary scholarly research with compelling vignettes to make it appealing to both instructors and undergraduate audiences. While focused on the United States in respect to its target audience and emphasis, it contains considerable international data that compares and contrasts social policies adopted in Europe and elsewhere. In so doing, it shows both the strengths and the limitations of the approac…
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