Barbara Laslett
Biographic Data
| ID | 176898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Laslett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Laslett |
| SIGNATURE | LASLETT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 243 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Twenty-First-Century Academic Feminism in the United States: Utopian Visions and Practical Actions
The Poverty of (Monocausal) Theory: A Comment on Charles Tilly's Durable Inequality
Durable Inequality is a very ambitious work of social theory by one of our foremost sociologists. In many ways, it builds upon the grand master theorists of the nineteenth century through a language of the present. It is like the more structuralist versions of Marx. For Marx, however, class relations and class inequality have different dynamics and different characteristics, depending on historically variable modes of production. For Tilly, inequ…
Biography as Destiny
The Academic is Political is Personal: Feminists Transforming Sociology
Personal Narratives as Sociology
Family Structure in Los Angeles, California: 1850–1900
In an overview of recent research on the history of the family, Tamara Hareven (1991) points out that this field of study took its inspiration from developments in historical demography and from the “new social history” of the 1960s. Family historians, like other social historians, had “a commitment to reconstructing the life patterns of ordinary people, to viewing them as actors as well as subjects in the process of change” (ibid.: 95). The flow…
Family Structure in Los Angeles, California: 1850-1900
The Gendering of Social Theory: Sociology and Its Discontents
Feminism, families, and family sociology
Gender in/and Social Science History
Considering Dorothy Smith's Social Theory: Introduction
We have organized this symposium to help foster a dialogue that is long overdue. For more than two decades feminist theorists, inspired by the women's movement and drawing upon many academic disciplines, have addressed issues pertinent to sociological theory. Feminists have raised profound questions about epistemology and the sociology and politics of knowledge. They have developed original theoretical perspectives on paid and unpaid work, famili…
On Being Labeled Politically (In)Correct: Introduction
Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Current Controversies
Jessie Bernard: The Making of a Woman's Life
Gender, Social Reproduction, and Women's Self-Organization: Considering the U.S. Welfare State
This article argues that changes in the organization of social reproduction, defined to include the activities, attitudes, behaviors, emotions, responsibilities, and relationships involved in maintaining daily life, can explain historical differences in women's political self-organization. Examining the Progressive period, the 1930s, and the 1960s and 1970s, the authors suggest that the conditions of social reproduction provide the organizational…
Biography as historical sociology: The case of William Fielding Ogburn
Structure, agency, and gender: The social reproduction of a discipline
Women's work in late-nineteenth-century Los Angeles: Class, gender and the culture of new womanhood
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Teaching Historical Sociology: A Discussion
(1990). Teaching Historical Sociology: A Discussion. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 121-134
Unfeeling knowledge: Emotion and objectivity in the history of sociology
Gender and Social Reproduction: Historical Perspectives
This paper defines the concepts of gender and social reproduction as developed in feminist theory and discusses their utility for synthesizing recent historical research on women. We review literature on the emergence, institutionalization, and reorganization of “separate spheres” in nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe and North America. Focusing on social class differences in family strategies, procreation, sexuality, consumerism, prof…
The Decline of Fertility in Los Angeles, California, 1880-1900
Data from the 1900 U.S. Census of Population show that fertility in Los Angeles California, declined by more than 50 per cent between 1880 and 1900. Women's mean age at first marriage, which rose by approximately three years, contributed to the decline, but change in marital fertility was more important than change in nuptiality. Although the fertility of in-migrating U.S.-born women was lower than that of California-born women, the decline was n…
Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American History.John Demos
Class Conflict and Household Structural Change: A Test of Laslett's Model: A Rejoinder
"Class Conflict and Household Structural Change: A Test of Laslett’s Model: A Rejoinder." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 16(3), pp. 413–414
Rethinking household structure: A new system of classification
This paper will discuss one central methodological issue in the historical study of changes in the American family--the coding and classification of household structure from information available on the individual federal census schedules. The historical case that will illustrate the procedures employed is Los Angeles California between 1850 and 1900. The factors involved in the choice of coding techniques used to create a machine-readable data f…
Personal Narratives as Sociology
Gender, Social Reproduction, and Women's Self-Organization: Considering the U.S. Welfare State
This article argues that changes in the organization of social reproduction, defined to include the activities, attitudes, behaviors, emotions, responsibilities, and relationships involved in maintaining daily life, can explain historical differences in women's political self-organization. Examining the Progressive period, the 1930s, and the 1960s and 1970s, the authors suggest that the conditions of social reproduction provide the organizational…
Privacy and Secrecy: A Conceptual Comparison
Privacy and secrecy both involve boundaries and the denial of access to others; however, they differ in the moral content of the behavior which is concealed. Privacy is consensual where secrecy is not; that is, there is a "right to privacy" but no equivalent "right to secrecy." Those stigmatized or disadvantaged social groups who have little or no access to privacy utilize secrecy to conceal their behavior. The private family and the secret homos…
Unfeeling knowledge: Emotion and objectivity in the history of sociology
Biography as historical sociology: The case of William Fielding Ogburn
Collaborative Interviewing and Interactive Research
Barbara Laslett, Rhona Rapoport, Collaborative Interviewing and Interactive Research, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 37, No. 4, Special Section: Macrosociology of the Family (Nov., 1975), pp. 968-977
The Family as a Public and Private Institution: An Historical Perspective
Barbara Laslett, The Family as a Public and Private Institution: An Historical Perspective, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 35, No. 3, Special Section: New Social History of the Family (Aug., 1973), pp. 480-492
Losing Weight: The Organizational Promotion of Behavior Change
This analysis explores the sociological dimensions of obesity as a type of deviance through a study of the strategies used by one voluntary weight loss organization to change the behavior of fat people so they will become thin. Goffman's concept of stigma and Lemert's theory of secondary deviation are applied to these strategies. The study concludes that under certain circumstances, stigma may be used to change behavior from deviant to normal and…
Beyond Methodology: The Place of Theory in Quantitative Historical Research
This paper analyzes relationship between theory and methods in that body of research that has come to be called the new social history. First, an argument is iiiade that quantitative analysis of individual-level data that characterizes much of what is new in recent sociohistorical literature is not only a methodology for conducting empirical research but also embodies an implicit theory of social organization that is both quantitative and individ…
Social Change and the Family: Los Angeles, California, 1850-1870
Household Structure on an American Frontier: Los Angeles, California, in 1850
Based on individual United States federal census schedules, this paper reports on the ways in which economic and demographic variables relate to different types of household organization in Los Angeles in 1850. While the findings confirm the results of other recent research that the nuclear family predominated in preindustrial societies, they also emphasize the need to focus on variation. Methodological problems of working with this kind of data …
Family Membership, Past and Present
Journal Article Family Membership, Past and Present Get access Barbara Laslett Barbara Laslett University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 25, Issue 5, 1 June 1978, Pages 476–490, https://doi.org/10.2307/800097 Published: 04 August 2014
The Poverty of (Monocausal) Theory: A Comment on Charles Tilly's Durable Inequality
Durable Inequality is a very ambitious work of social theory by one of our foremost sociologists. In many ways, it builds upon the grand master theorists of the nineteenth century through a language of the present. It is like the more structuralist versions of Marx. For Marx, however, class relations and class inequality have different dynamics and different characteristics, depending on historically variable modes of production. For Tilly, inequ…
The Decline of Fertility in Los Angeles, California, 1880-1900
Data from the 1900 U.S. Census of Population show that fertility in Los Angeles California, declined by more than 50 per cent between 1880 and 1900. Women's mean age at first marriage, which rose by approximately three years, contributed to the decline, but change in marital fertility was more important than change in nuptiality. Although the fertility of in-migrating U.S.-born women was lower than that of California-born women, the decline was n…
Considering Dorothy Smith's Social Theory: Introduction
We have organized this symposium to help foster a dialogue that is long overdue. For more than two decades feminist theorists, inspired by the women's movement and drawing upon many academic disciplines, have addressed issues pertinent to sociological theory. Feminists have raised profound questions about epistemology and the sociology and politics of knowledge. They have developed original theoretical perspectives on paid and unpaid work, famili…
Women's work in late-nineteenth-century Los Angeles: Class, gender and the culture of new womanhood
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Mobility and Work Satisfaction: A Discussion of the Use and Interpretation of Mobility Models
Two different models for studying the effects of intergenerational occupational mobility on three types of work satisfaction are compared and discussed. The interpretive consequences of using one model rather than another are considered. The analysis shows that mobility, whether studied by the interaction or additive models, is not significantly related to satisfaction with earnings. The additive model can predict a significant relationship betwe…
Gender in/and Social Science History
Structure, agency, and gender: The social reproduction of a discipline
Class Conflict and Household Structural Change: A Test of Laslett's Model: A Rejoinder
"Class Conflict and Household Structural Change: A Test of Laslett’s Model: A Rejoinder." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 16(3), pp. 413–414
Rethinking household structure: A new system of classification
This paper will discuss one central methodological issue in the historical study of changes in the American family--the coding and classification of household structure from information available on the individual federal census schedules. The historical case that will illustrate the procedures employed is Los Angeles California between 1850 and 1900. The factors involved in the choice of coding techniques used to create a machine-readable data f…
Mobility and Work Satisfaction: A Discussion of the Use and Interpretation of Mobility Models
Two different models for studying the effects of intergenerational occupational mobility on three types of work satisfaction are compared and discussed. The interpretive consequences of using one model rather than another are considered. The analysis shows that mobility, whether studied by the interaction or additive models, is not significantly related to satisfaction with earnings. The additive model can predict a significant relationship betwe…
The Family as a Public and Private Institution: An Historical Perspective
Barbara Laslett, The Family as a Public and Private Institution: An Historical Perspective, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 35, No. 3, Special Section: New Social History of the Family (Aug., 1973), pp. 480-492
Collaborative Interviewing and Interactive Research
Barbara Laslett, Rhona Rapoport, Collaborative Interviewing and Interactive Research, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 37, No. 4, Special Section: Macrosociology of the Family (Nov., 1975), pp. 968-977
Losing Weight: The Organizational Promotion of Behavior Change
This analysis explores the sociological dimensions of obesity as a type of deviance through a study of the strategies used by one voluntary weight loss organization to change the behavior of fat people so they will become thin. Goffman's concept of stigma and Lemert's theory of secondary deviation are applied to these strategies. The study concludes that under certain circumstances, stigma may be used to change behavior from deviant to normal and…
Household Structure on an American Frontier: Los Angeles, California, in 1850
Based on individual United States federal census schedules, this paper reports on the ways in which economic and demographic variables relate to different types of household organization in Los Angeles in 1850. While the findings confirm the results of other recent research that the nuclear family predominated in preindustrial societies, they also emphasize the need to focus on variation. Methodological problems of working with this kind of data …
Summary of the Report on the Case of Dr. Nancy Glandon and the University of Redlands
Privacy and Secrecy: A Conceptual Comparison
Privacy and secrecy both involve boundaries and the denial of access to others; however, they differ in the moral content of the behavior which is concealed. Privacy is consensual where secrecy is not; that is, there is a "right to privacy" but no equivalent "right to secrecy." Those stigmatized or disadvantaged social groups who have little or no access to privacy utilize secrecy to conceal their behavior. The private family and the secret homos…
Social Change and the Family: Los Angeles, California, 1850-1870
Worlds of Pain/Life in the Working-Class Family
Family Membership, Past and Present
Journal Article Family Membership, Past and Present Get access Barbara Laslett Barbara Laslett University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 25, Issue 5, 1 June 1978, Pages 476–490, https://doi.org/10.2307/800097 Published: 04 August 2014
Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism
Beyond Methodology: The Place of Theory in Quantitative Historical Research
This paper analyzes relationship between theory and methods in that body of research that has come to be called the new social history. First, an argument is iiiade that quantitative analysis of individual-level data that characterizes much of what is new in recent sociohistorical literature is not only a methodology for conducting empirical research but also embodies an implicit theory of social organization that is both quantitative and individ…
Rethinking household structure: A new system of classification
This paper will discuss one central methodological issue in the historical study of changes in the American family--the coding and classification of household structure from information available on the individual federal census schedules. The historical case that will illustrate the procedures employed is Los Angeles California between 1850 and 1900. The factors involved in the choice of coding techniques used to create a machine-readable data f…
Class Conflict and Household Structural Change: A Test of Laslett's Model: A Rejoinder
"Class Conflict and Household Structural Change: A Test of Laslett’s Model: A Rejoinder." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 16(3), pp. 413–414
The Decline of Fertility in Los Angeles, California, 1880-1900
Data from the 1900 U.S. Census of Population show that fertility in Los Angeles California, declined by more than 50 per cent between 1880 and 1900. Women's mean age at first marriage, which rose by approximately three years, contributed to the decline, but change in marital fertility was more important than change in nuptiality. Although the fertility of in-migrating U.S.-born women was lower than that of California-born women, the decline was n…
Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American History.John Demos
Gender and Social Reproduction: Historical Perspectives
This paper defines the concepts of gender and social reproduction as developed in feminist theory and discusses their utility for synthesizing recent historical research on women. We review literature on the emergence, institutionalization, and reorganization of “separate spheres” in nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe and North America. Focusing on social class differences in family strategies, procreation, sexuality, consumerism, prof…
Structure, agency, and gender: The social reproduction of a discipline
Women's work in late-nineteenth-century Los Angeles: Class, gender and the culture of new womanhood
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Teaching Historical Sociology: A Discussion
(1990). Teaching Historical Sociology: A Discussion. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 121-134
Unfeeling knowledge: Emotion and objectivity in the history of sociology
Jessie Bernard: The Making of a Woman's Life
Gender, Social Reproduction, and Women's Self-Organization: Considering the U.S. Welfare State
This article argues that changes in the organization of social reproduction, defined to include the activities, attitudes, behaviors, emotions, responsibilities, and relationships involved in maintaining daily life, can explain historical differences in women's political self-organization. Examining the Progressive period, the 1930s, and the 1960s and 1970s, the authors suggest that the conditions of social reproduction provide the organizational…
Biography as historical sociology: The case of William Fielding Ogburn
Gender in/and Social Science History
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