Carrie Yodanis
Biographic Data
| ID | 163569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carrie Yodanis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carrie |
| FAMILY NAME | Yodanis |
| SIGNATURE | YODANIS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Wearing: Art, the Body, and Distance
Why are the objects we place on our bodies not considered art? In this paper, I argue that distance between an object and the body is a criterion for a craft object to become an art object. Art objects are kept at a distance from most bodies. The distance is tightly maintained by the art world and used within the art world to control art and access to it. In the process, this distance defines an object as art. I present the case of jewelry – obje…
Multiculturalism in interethnic intimate relationships
Interethnic intimate relationships are generally considered to be an indicator of assimilation processes, or the weakening of cultural boundaries between ethnic groups (Alba and Nee, 2003). In our research, however, we find that interethnic couples may maintain cultural boundaries and differences in their relationships. Based on interviews with people in interethnic relationships, we find that partners can use language to preserve their two disti…
All Our Stuff: Families and Consumption
In this article, we provide a different lens through which to understand how we evaluate family relationships. There is general consensus that family relationships, whether between adults or between parents and children, should be rooted in love and caring. But how do we evaluate love and care? We review of literature that shows that consumption and commodities are key criteria through which we determine the quantity and quality of the love and c…
Is Marriage Individualized? What Couples Actually Do
We address an idea in the study of families that is growing in acceptance—marriage today is individualized. Using a new institutional perspective, we review the literature to evaluate whether marriage is actually individualized. We discuss the commonly used indicators of individualization, questioning some of the key indicators and calling for a greater focus on the examination of actual behaviors of married spouses. We also review the empirical …
Interethnic Romantic Relationships: Enacting Affiliative Ethnic Identities
Through in-depth interviews with respondents who were in interethnic relationships (N =28), the authors extended and refined a new approach to mate selection based on affiliative ethnic identities (T. Jimenez, 2010). Rather than assimilation and a breakdown of ethnic group boundaries, they found that people pursued interethnic relationships because of the ethnic differences they include. These relationships gave them access to an affiliate ethnic…
More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss
Individualized Marriage and the Integration of Resources
In individualized marriages, spouses maintain independence in their relationship. In individualized marriages, do married couples manage their money in pooled accounts or do they keep separate accounts? We answer this question with the 2002 International Social Survey Programme (N = 18,587;31 country contexts) and examine how variation in the individualization of marriage is related to variation in resource integration within marriage. We make tw…
The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage Revisited: A New Institutional Approach to Marriage
Across the social sciences, there is a consensus that the institution of marriage is undergoing dramatic changes. In this paper, we reconsider conceptually the discussion surrounding Cherlin's (2004) work on the deinstitutionalization of marriage. We apply ideas from the new institutionalism in sociology and economics to the special case of marriage and consider its implications for the conceptualization and operationalization of a deinstitutiona…
Robert C. Ellickson, The Household: Informal Order Around the Hearth
I n this book, Robert Ellickson, a professor of law, seeks to understand the household from the "bottom up rather than top down."By this he means he wants to move away from legal explanations for arrangements, which he argues most people do not use in household arrangements.In liberal societies, legal constraints for household formation are kept to a minimum and individuals develop their own arrangements.In this context, he explains how members o…
On Par’? The Role of the Au Pair in Switzerland and France
The role of the au pair as outlined in the 1969 Council of Europe's European Agreement on ‘Au Pair’ Placement is ambiguous. Although they provide child care for pay, au pairs are supposed to be treated as members of the host family. Based on in-depth interviews with au pairs in Switzerland and France, this paper examines how au pairs define their role. Results show how au pairs’ definitions of their roles vary and are constructed through interact…
Managing Money in Marriage: Multilevel and Cross-National Effects of the Breadwinner Role
We examine whether institutionalized practices and beliefs regarding breadwinning roles are associated with the choice of more or less equal money management strategies in marriage. Using cross-national data from 21 country contexts in the International Social Survey Programme and multilevel modeling, we find that in contexts of shared breadwinning, there is a greater likelihood of shared management of money, controlling for the relative income c…
Economic Inequality In and Outside of Marriage: Individual Resources and Institutional Context
Using cross-nationally comparative data from 15 country contexts, we focus on economic inequality at the national-level and its direct and moderating effects on the likelihood of couples having equal versus unequal arrangements for managing money. Confirming earlier research and theory, we find that the gendered context matters. Our results also show that the overall level of economic inequality in a country shapes the likelihood of having equal …
A Place in Town: Doing Class in a Coffee Shop
How do socioeconomic differences take on meaning in our daily interactions? Each morning for a summer I joined nine women in a coffee shop in a small rural town. In this public setting, I observed how women "do" class. During interaction, women use work, family, and leisure-related behaviors, values, and tastes associated with socioeconomic positions in the process of class categorization. No set hierarchy results from this process, however. Rath…
Foreign Visitor, Exchange Student, or Family Member? A Study of Au Pair Policies in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia
Approaches to state provision of childcare have typically focused on the relative weight of state or market provision. In this article we follow a new institutional approach to the relationship between states and markets to examine the au pair industry, emphasising the role of states in the creation of markets for childcare. Research on the market provision of childcare has focused on the ambiguity in defining caring as work, which has led to the…
Divorce Culture and Marital Gender Equality: A Cross-National Study
This article examines the cross-national relationship between a divorce culture on a national level and gender equality in intact marriages. Based on multilevel analysis of data from 22 countries in the International Social Survey Programme, the results indicate that a divorce culture on the national level is associated with greater marital equality. In other words, in countries where divorce is accepted and practiced, the distribution of work be…
Gender Inequality, Violence Against Women, and Fear: A Cross-National Test of the Feminist Theory of Violence Against Women
This article presents a cross-national test of the feminist theory of violence against women. Combining data from the International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS) with United Nations statistics, the findings support the theory. Specifically, the results indicate that the educational and occupational status of women in a country is related to the prevalence of sexual violence against women. In countries where the status of women is low, prevalence of…
The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP): A Tool for Teaching With an International Perspective
gists teaching Swiss students, we had to broaden our U.S.-centered sociological perspective in the classroom. In courses on statistics and research methods, social inequality, economic sociology, sociology of the family, and sociology of work, we needed to find international examples and data that we could use to illustrate points made during lectures, in small-group and seminar discussions, and for statistics examples and assignments. At a Works…
Producing Social Class Representations: Women's Work in a Rural Town
Based on data from participant observation and in-depth interviews with women who live in a relatively homogeneous small, rural town, this article examines how women act to produce social class representations. By presenting symbols of socioeconomic positions, including behaviors, tastes, and values, during their work, the women in the town present themselves as working, middle, or upper class women. Through these representations, they secure a p…
The Benefits of Studying Costs: A Review and Agenda for Studies on the Economic Costs of Violence Against Women
This paper reviews studies on the economic costs of violence against women. By taking an economic, cost/benefit perspective, these studies provide data for evaluating services and a language effective for communicating with influential actors, including state and business leaders. They show policymakers the enormous costs resulting from not assisting victims and allowing violence against women to continue. As a result, an economic perspective has…
Constructing Gender and Occupational Segregation: A Study of Women and Work in Fishing Communities
Women, Work, and the Family in Europe
Corporal Punishment in Adolescence and Physical Assaults on Spouses in Later Life: What Accounts for the Link
Murray A. Straus, Carrie L. Yodanis, Corporal Punishment in Adolescence and Physical Assaults on Spouses in Later Life: What Accounts for the Link?, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Nov., 1996), pp. 825-841
The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage Revisited: A New Institutional Approach to Marriage
Across the social sciences, there is a consensus that the institution of marriage is undergoing dramatic changes. In this paper, we reconsider conceptually the discussion surrounding Cherlin's (2004) work on the deinstitutionalization of marriage. We apply ideas from the new institutionalism in sociology and economics to the special case of marriage and consider its implications for the conceptualization and operationalization of a deinstitutiona…
Divorce Culture and Marital Gender Equality: A Cross-National Study
This article examines the cross-national relationship between a divorce culture on a national level and gender equality in intact marriages. Based on multilevel analysis of data from 22 countries in the International Social Survey Programme, the results indicate that a divorce culture on the national level is associated with greater marital equality. In other words, in countries where divorce is accepted and practiced, the distribution of work be…
Managing Money in Marriage: Multilevel and Cross-National Effects of the Breadwinner Role
We examine whether institutionalized practices and beliefs regarding breadwinning roles are associated with the choice of more or less equal money management strategies in marriage. Using cross-national data from 21 country contexts in the International Social Survey Programme and multilevel modeling, we find that in contexts of shared breadwinning, there is a greater likelihood of shared management of money, controlling for the relative income c…
Individualized Marriage and the Integration of Resources
In individualized marriages, spouses maintain independence in their relationship. In individualized marriages, do married couples manage their money in pooled accounts or do they keep separate accounts? We answer this question with the 2002 International Social Survey Programme (N = 18,587;31 country contexts) and examine how variation in the individualization of marriage is related to variation in resource integration within marriage. We make tw…
Constructing Gender and Occupational Segregation: A Study of Women and Work in Fishing Communities
Is Marriage Individualized? What Couples Actually Do
We address an idea in the study of families that is growing in acceptance—marriage today is individualized. Using a new institutional perspective, we review the literature to evaluate whether marriage is actually individualized. We discuss the commonly used indicators of individualization, questioning some of the key indicators and calling for a greater focus on the examination of actual behaviors of married spouses. We also review the empirical …
Corporal Punishment in Adolescence and Physical Assaults on Spouses in Later Life: What Accounts for the Link
Murray A. Straus, Carrie L. Yodanis, Corporal Punishment in Adolescence and Physical Assaults on Spouses in Later Life: What Accounts for the Link?, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Nov., 1996), pp. 825-841
Foreign Visitor, Exchange Student, or Family Member? A Study of Au Pair Policies in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia
Approaches to state provision of childcare have typically focused on the relative weight of state or market provision. In this article we follow a new institutional approach to the relationship between states and markets to examine the au pair industry, emphasising the role of states in the creation of markets for childcare. Research on the market provision of childcare has focused on the ambiguity in defining caring as work, which has led to the…
Interethnic Romantic Relationships: Enacting Affiliative Ethnic Identities
Through in-depth interviews with respondents who were in interethnic relationships (N =28), the authors extended and refined a new approach to mate selection based on affiliative ethnic identities (T. Jimenez, 2010). Rather than assimilation and a breakdown of ethnic group boundaries, they found that people pursued interethnic relationships because of the ethnic differences they include. These relationships gave them access to an affiliate ethnic…
On Par’? The Role of the Au Pair in Switzerland and France
The role of the au pair as outlined in the 1969 Council of Europe's European Agreement on ‘Au Pair’ Placement is ambiguous. Although they provide child care for pay, au pairs are supposed to be treated as members of the host family. Based on in-depth interviews with au pairs in Switzerland and France, this paper examines how au pairs define their role. Results show how au pairs’ definitions of their roles vary and are constructed through interact…
Economic Inequality In and Outside of Marriage: Individual Resources and Institutional Context
Using cross-nationally comparative data from 15 country contexts, we focus on economic inequality at the national-level and its direct and moderating effects on the likelihood of couples having equal versus unequal arrangements for managing money. Confirming earlier research and theory, we find that the gendered context matters. Our results also show that the overall level of economic inequality in a country shapes the likelihood of having equal …
Producing Social Class Representations: Women's Work in a Rural Town
Based on data from participant observation and in-depth interviews with women who live in a relatively homogeneous small, rural town, this article examines how women act to produce social class representations. By presenting symbols of socioeconomic positions, including behaviors, tastes, and values, during their work, the women in the town present themselves as working, middle, or upper class women. Through these representations, they secure a p…
A Place in Town: Doing Class in a Coffee Shop
How do socioeconomic differences take on meaning in our daily interactions? Each morning for a summer I joined nine women in a coffee shop in a small rural town. In this public setting, I observed how women "do" class. During interaction, women use work, family, and leisure-related behaviors, values, and tastes associated with socioeconomic positions in the process of class categorization. No set hierarchy results from this process, however. Rath…
The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP): A Tool for Teaching With an International Perspective
gists teaching Swiss students, we had to broaden our U.S.-centered sociological perspective in the classroom. In courses on statistics and research methods, social inequality, economic sociology, sociology of the family, and sociology of work, we needed to find international examples and data that we could use to illustrate points made during lectures, in small-group and seminar discussions, and for statistics examples and assignments. At a Works…
Multiculturalism in interethnic intimate relationships
Interethnic intimate relationships are generally considered to be an indicator of assimilation processes, or the weakening of cultural boundaries between ethnic groups (Alba and Nee, 2003). In our research, however, we find that interethnic couples may maintain cultural boundaries and differences in their relationships. Based on interviews with people in interethnic relationships, we find that partners can use language to preserve their two disti…
More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss
Corporal Punishment in Adolescence and Physical Assaults on Spouses in Later Life: What Accounts for the Link
Murray A. Straus, Carrie L. Yodanis, Corporal Punishment in Adolescence and Physical Assaults on Spouses in Later Life: What Accounts for the Link?, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Nov., 1996), pp. 825-841
Women, Work, and the Family in Europe
The Benefits of Studying Costs: A Review and Agenda for Studies on the Economic Costs of Violence Against Women
This paper reviews studies on the economic costs of violence against women. By taking an economic, cost/benefit perspective, these studies provide data for evaluating services and a language effective for communicating with influential actors, including state and business leaders. They show policymakers the enormous costs resulting from not assisting victims and allowing violence against women to continue. As a result, an economic perspective has…
Constructing Gender and Occupational Segregation: A Study of Women and Work in Fishing Communities
Producing Social Class Representations: Women's Work in a Rural Town
Based on data from participant observation and in-depth interviews with women who live in a relatively homogeneous small, rural town, this article examines how women act to produce social class representations. By presenting symbols of socioeconomic positions, including behaviors, tastes, and values, during their work, the women in the town present themselves as working, middle, or upper class women. Through these representations, they secure a p…
Gender Inequality, Violence Against Women, and Fear: A Cross-National Test of the Feminist Theory of Violence Against Women
This article presents a cross-national test of the feminist theory of violence against women. Combining data from the International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS) with United Nations statistics, the findings support the theory. Specifically, the results indicate that the educational and occupational status of women in a country is related to the prevalence of sexual violence against women. In countries where the status of women is low, prevalence of…
The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP): A Tool for Teaching With an International Perspective
gists teaching Swiss students, we had to broaden our U.S.-centered sociological perspective in the classroom. In courses on statistics and research methods, social inequality, economic sociology, sociology of the family, and sociology of work, we needed to find international examples and data that we could use to illustrate points made during lectures, in small-group and seminar discussions, and for statistics examples and assignments. At a Works…
Foreign Visitor, Exchange Student, or Family Member? A Study of Au Pair Policies in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia
Approaches to state provision of childcare have typically focused on the relative weight of state or market provision. In this article we follow a new institutional approach to the relationship between states and markets to examine the au pair industry, emphasising the role of states in the creation of markets for childcare. Research on the market provision of childcare has focused on the ambiguity in defining caring as work, which has led to the…
Divorce Culture and Marital Gender Equality: A Cross-National Study
This article examines the cross-national relationship between a divorce culture on a national level and gender equality in intact marriages. Based on multilevel analysis of data from 22 countries in the International Social Survey Programme, the results indicate that a divorce culture on the national level is associated with greater marital equality. In other words, in countries where divorce is accepted and practiced, the distribution of work be…
A Place in Town: Doing Class in a Coffee Shop
How do socioeconomic differences take on meaning in our daily interactions? Each morning for a summer I joined nine women in a coffee shop in a small rural town. In this public setting, I observed how women "do" class. During interaction, women use work, family, and leisure-related behaviors, values, and tastes associated with socioeconomic positions in the process of class categorization. No set hierarchy results from this process, however. Rath…
On Par’? The Role of the Au Pair in Switzerland and France
The role of the au pair as outlined in the 1969 Council of Europe's European Agreement on ‘Au Pair’ Placement is ambiguous. Although they provide child care for pay, au pairs are supposed to be treated as members of the host family. Based on in-depth interviews with au pairs in Switzerland and France, this paper examines how au pairs define their role. Results show how au pairs’ definitions of their roles vary and are constructed through interact…
Managing Money in Marriage: Multilevel and Cross-National Effects of the Breadwinner Role
We examine whether institutionalized practices and beliefs regarding breadwinning roles are associated with the choice of more or less equal money management strategies in marriage. Using cross-national data from 21 country contexts in the International Social Survey Programme and multilevel modeling, we find that in contexts of shared breadwinning, there is a greater likelihood of shared management of money, controlling for the relative income c…
Economic Inequality In and Outside of Marriage: Individual Resources and Institutional Context
Using cross-nationally comparative data from 15 country contexts, we focus on economic inequality at the national-level and its direct and moderating effects on the likelihood of couples having equal versus unequal arrangements for managing money. Confirming earlier research and theory, we find that the gendered context matters. Our results also show that the overall level of economic inequality in a country shapes the likelihood of having equal …
The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage Revisited: A New Institutional Approach to Marriage
Across the social sciences, there is a consensus that the institution of marriage is undergoing dramatic changes. In this paper, we reconsider conceptually the discussion surrounding Cherlin's (2004) work on the deinstitutionalization of marriage. We apply ideas from the new institutionalism in sociology and economics to the special case of marriage and consider its implications for the conceptualization and operationalization of a deinstitutiona…
Robert C. Ellickson, The Household: Informal Order Around the Hearth
I n this book, Robert Ellickson, a professor of law, seeks to understand the household from the "bottom up rather than top down."By this he means he wants to move away from legal explanations for arrangements, which he argues most people do not use in household arrangements.In liberal societies, legal constraints for household formation are kept to a minimum and individuals develop their own arrangements.In this context, he explains how members o…
More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss
Individualized Marriage and the Integration of Resources
In individualized marriages, spouses maintain independence in their relationship. In individualized marriages, do married couples manage their money in pooled accounts or do they keep separate accounts? We answer this question with the 2002 International Social Survey Programme (N = 18,587;31 country contexts) and examine how variation in the individualization of marriage is related to variation in resource integration within marriage. We make tw…
Interethnic Romantic Relationships: Enacting Affiliative Ethnic Identities
Through in-depth interviews with respondents who were in interethnic relationships (N =28), the authors extended and refined a new approach to mate selection based on affiliative ethnic identities (T. Jimenez, 2010). Rather than assimilation and a breakdown of ethnic group boundaries, they found that people pursued interethnic relationships because of the ethnic differences they include. These relationships gave them access to an affiliate ethnic…
Is Marriage Individualized? What Couples Actually Do
We address an idea in the study of families that is growing in acceptance—marriage today is individualized. Using a new institutional perspective, we review the literature to evaluate whether marriage is actually individualized. We discuss the commonly used indicators of individualization, questioning some of the key indicators and calling for a greater focus on the examination of actual behaviors of married spouses. We also review the empirical …
Multiculturalism in interethnic intimate relationships
Interethnic intimate relationships are generally considered to be an indicator of assimilation processes, or the weakening of cultural boundaries between ethnic groups (Alba and Nee, 2003). In our research, however, we find that interethnic couples may maintain cultural boundaries and differences in their relationships. Based on interviews with people in interethnic relationships, we find that partners can use language to preserve their two disti…
All Our Stuff: Families and Consumption
In this article, we provide a different lens through which to understand how we evaluate family relationships. There is general consensus that family relationships, whether between adults or between parents and children, should be rooted in love and caring. But how do we evaluate love and care? We review of literature that shows that consumption and commodities are key criteria through which we determine the quantity and quality of the love and c…
Wearing: Art, the Body, and Distance
Why are the objects we place on our bodies not considered art? In this paper, I argue that distance between an object and the body is a criterion for a craft object to become an art object. Art objects are kept at a distance from most bodies. The distance is tightly maintained by the art world and used within the art world to control art and access to it. In the process, this distance defines an object as art. I present the case of jewelry – obje…
Sociology (17 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (6 works) · Social science (6 works)