Joan Huber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596029 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Huber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Huber |
| SIGNATURE | HUBER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 553 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Reproductive Biology, Technology, and Gender Inequality: An Autobiographical Essay
Ignorance of biodata is costly in sociology. Gender theorists remain unaware that until the demographic transition, infants were suckled every 15 minutes for two years, less often another two. A nearly continuous cycle of pregnancy and lactation barred women from the activities that brought the most prestige and power until the advent of modern sanitation after 1880. Women entered the public arena in large number only after technology altered the…
Special Reviewers
Lenski Effects on Sex Stratification Theory
This paper tries to explain why the Lenski (1970) theory of stratification based on ecology and subsistence technology had relatively little effect on theories of sex inequality. In cultural anthropology, generalization was held to be impossible. Feminist explanation in sociology was social-psychological. Moreover, by the 1980s, the bias against biology in feminist theory came to include all of science. Exceptions to these trends include the work…
Valuing Technology: Organisations, Culture, and Change
From the Publisher: Valuing Technologyopens up new directions in the analysis of socio-technical change within organizations. Based on a major study of the introduction of management information systems in health, higher education and retailing, it explores the active role of end-users in the innovation process. Subjects covered include: the valuing of technology via the on-going construction of needs, uses and utilities the interplay of organiza…
Response to Professor Pryor’s Millennium Survey
This comment is in response to Frederic L. Pryor (2000). “The Millennium Survey: How Economists View the U.S. Economy in the 21 st Century.” The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 59 (January), pp. 3‐33
On Ending the Forced Choice between Attributions of Change to Exogenous vs. Endogenous Causes
This comment is in response to Frederic L. Pryor (2000). 7ldquo;The Millennium Survey: How Economists View the U.S. Economy in the 21 st Century.” The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 59 (January), pp. 3‐33
Whither Sociology: Tribal Rites in the ISA
Rational choice models in sociology
Commentary and Debate: Of Facts and Fables: Reply to Denzin
What Does Your Wife Do? Gender and the Transformation of Family Life
Introduction * Premarital Sexual Intercourse * Abortion * Divorce * Employment and Income * Conclusion
Gender and the Academic Experience: Berkeley Women Sociologists
"Gender and the Academic Experience: Berkeley Women Sociologists." The Journal of Higher Education, 66(3), pp. 367–368
International Handbook of Contemporary Developments in Sociology
Buhl Contemporary Sociology in the Netherlands by Henk A. Becker and Frans L. Leeuw Contemporary Sociology in Sweden by Richard Swedberg Contemporary Sociology in Switzerland by Jacques Coenen-Huther Sociology in the Western Hemisphere Expansion and Survival: Canadian Sociology and the Development of the Canadian Nation by Harley D. Dickinson and B. Singh Bolaria A View of Contemporary Latin American Sociology by Louis H. Bluhm Sociology's Academ…
Institutional Perspectives on Sociology
Persistent fiscal constraints in higher education pose special risks for sociology. The organization of academia gives all departments problems in self-governance. But these problems are intensified for sociology by features that can be sources of both strength and weakness (e.g., an affinity for students with agendas of reform and radical criticism) and that tend to attract critical attention from administrators and make it hard for sociologists…
Women's Two Roles: A Contemporary Dilemma
Playing Catch-Up with Aids
The Social Context of Aids
Preface - Joan Huber and Beth E Schneider The Social Context of AIDS - Joan Huber and Beth E Schneider Sociological Contributions to Research and Policy PART ONE: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF AIDS Sociology and People Living with AIDS - Barry D Adam AIDS and Class, Gender, and Race Relations - Beth E Schneider PART TWO: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF RISKY BEHAVIOR Unprotected Sex - Martin P Levine and Karolynn Siegel Understanding Gay Men's Participation Women …
Macro-micro linkages in sociology
Macro-Micro Links in Gender Stratification: 1989 Presidential Address
Since the study of macro and micro interrelations requires measurement of reciprocal effects over time, the problem is usually conceptualized more narrowly. This paper demonstrates how macro-micro links in a theory of gender stratification can put societal problems in context and show how these problems are reflected in individual lives. Industrialization disturbed gender stratification patterns when macrotrends in mortality, education, fertility…
How to Grade Handbook Articles
The Whole Is Not Greater than the Sum of its Parts, But Some of the Parts Are Pretty Darn Good
A Theory of Family, Economy, and Gender
Two assumptions undergird the argument: In all societies producers have more power than consumers; those who control the distribution of valued goods beyond the family have the most power. Historically, the requirements of population replacement have interacted with modes of subsistence technology to shape the differential distribution of power and prestige by sex. Evidence comes from societies based on foraging, the hoe, the plow, herding, and i…
Trends in gender stratification, 1970?1985
Machina ex Dea: Feminist Perspectives on Technology
Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility
Hardship and Depression
We argue that successfulfulfillment of husbands' and wives' role obligations in the household affects psychological well-being. Ongoing economic hardship-the inability to adequately feed, clothe, and provide medical care for the family-indicates unsuccessful fulfillment of both breadwinner and homemaker obligations. Using a national sample of married couples, we find that economic hardship is increased by low income, low education, being young, a…
Dividing Work, Sharing Work, and In-Between: Marriage Patterns and Depression
Marriages in the United States are shifting from the complementary type, in which the husband is employed and the wife cares for the household and children, to the parallel type, in which both spouses are employed and both are responsible for the housework. This change, however, is far from complete. Disjunctions in the institution of marriage may be stressful and emotionally disturbing. We hypothesize that the effect of a wife's employment on he…
Hardship and Depression
We argue that successfulfulfillment of husbands' and wives' role obligations in the household affects psychological well-being. Ongoing economic hardship-the inability to adequately feed, clothe, and provide medical care for the family-indicates unsuccessful fulfillment of both breadwinner and homemaker obligations. Using a national sample of married couples, we find that economic hardship is increased by low income, low education, being young, a…
Symbolic Interaction as a Pragmatic Perspective: The Bias of Emergent Theory
The epistemology of symbolic interaction derives from the pragmatic model of Dewey and Mead, close associates. This paper argues that the methodology of pragmatism and symbolic interaction permits the perspectives of the researcher and the people in interactive situations to bias the research. Influenced by Hegel, Dewey and Mead adopted an evolutionary, holistic view of reality; progress was inevitable and people were naturally rational. In addit…
Institutional Perspectives on Sociology
Persistent fiscal constraints in higher education pose special risks for sociology. The organization of academia gives all departments problems in self-governance. But these problems are intensified for sociology by features that can be sources of both strength and weakness (e.g., an affinity for students with agendas of reform and radical criticism) and that tend to attract critical attention from administrators and make it hard for sociologists…
Macro-Micro Links in Gender Stratification: 1989 Presidential Address
Since the study of macro and micro interrelations requires measurement of reciprocal effects over time, the problem is usually conceptualized more narrowly. This paper demonstrates how macro-micro links in a theory of gender stratification can put societal problems in context and show how these problems are reflected in individual lives. Industrialization disturbed gender stratification patterns when macrotrends in mortality, education, fertility…
Considering Divorce: An Expansion of Becker's Theory of Marital Instability
Using a national probability sample (N = 1,360) of husbands and wives married to one another in 1978, we explore the correlates of thinking about divorce in order to extend Becker's theory of marital instability by adding sociological variables and measuring individual utilities. Wive's thoughts of divorce increase with their work experience, having a youngest child aged 6-11, and egalitarian housework attitudes and decrease with age at marriage,…
Income and ideology: An analysis of the American political formula
Toward a Sociotechnological Theory of the Women's Movement
The degree of sex stratification in a society is based on the extent to which males dominate the distribution of resources outside the reproductive unit. The industrial revolution increasingly transferred productive functions outside the family while it reduced women's reproductive functions. These trends reduced women's functions to custodial childcare and domestic service. While industrial demands for labor drew women first into the factory and…
Trends in gender stratification, 1970?1985
Wives' Employment, Household Behaviors, and Sex-Role Attitudes
Journal Article Wives' Employment, Household Behaviors, and Sex-Role Attitudes Get access Joan Huber, Joan Huber University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Glenna Spitze Glenna Spitze State University of New York at Albany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 60, Issue 1, September 1981, Pages 150–169, https://doi.org…
Reply to Blumer: But Who Will Scrutinize the Scrutinizers
A Theory of Family, Economy, and Gender
Two assumptions undergird the argument: In all societies producers have more power than consumers; those who control the distribution of valued goods beyond the family have the most power. Historically, the requirements of population replacement have interacted with modes of subsistence technology to shape the differential distribution of power and prestige by sex. Evidence comes from societies based on foraging, the hoe, the plow, herding, and i…
Husbands, Wives, and Careers
This research examines the extent to which spouse's level of education hinders or helps the careers of Ph.D. recipients. Using multiple regression to analyze data obtained from 1,053 persons who received their Ph.D.s from 1958-1963 and 1967-1971, we found that having a Ph.D. spouse negatively affected wives' labor-force participation and husbands' offices held and articles published; there was no direct effect on earnings for either sex. For both…
Sex of Student and Instructor: A Study of Student Bias
This study explores the posibility that women sabotage themselves by a collective antiwoman bias, as alleged in Goldberg's widely cited conclusion that women are prejudiced against women professionals. With 1,291 college students as respondents, this study hypothesized that men are more likely than women to show bias against women teachers or scholars. When former college teachers were evaluated, men students ranked women less favorably than men,…
Income, Race, and the Ideology of Political Efficacy
Observing Parental Violence: Distribution and Effects
Using data from a national probability sample of 910 men and 1, 092 women, this research describes the distribution of reported parental hitting and tests whether it affects attitudes about women's roles and the use of violence against women. Parental hitting, reported by 17 percent of the sample, failed to affect attitudes about women's roles, but it did affect attitudes concerning the use of violence against women. Men are more likely to approv…
Rational choice models in sociology
A Crucible of Opinion on Women's Status: ERA in Illinois
Commentary and Debate: Of Facts and Fables: Reply to Denzin
Ransacking Mobility Tables
Will U.S. Fertility Decline Toward Zero
Aggregate responses to changing conditions in 19th century industrializing countries show that economic incentives induced populations to decrease fertility despite the use of inconvenient methods, lack of normative support, and strong opposition from church and state. Examining contemporary collective system properties from a socio-economic perspective leads to the conclusion that the U.S. has become structurally antinatalist, despite popular an…
Sociology
Reproductive Biology, Technology, and Gender Inequality: An Autobiographical Essay
Ignorance of biodata is costly in sociology. Gender theorists remain unaware that until the demographic transition, infants were suckled every 15 minutes for two years, less often another two. A nearly continuous cycle of pregnancy and lactation barred women from the activities that brought the most prestige and power until the advent of modern sanitation after 1880. Women entered the public arena in large number only after technology altered the…
International Handbook of Contemporary Developments in Sociology
Buhl Contemporary Sociology in the Netherlands by Henk A. Becker and Frans L. Leeuw Contemporary Sociology in Sweden by Richard Swedberg Contemporary Sociology in Switzerland by Jacques Coenen-Huther Sociology in the Western Hemisphere Expansion and Survival: Canadian Sociology and the Development of the Canadian Nation by Harley D. Dickinson and B. Singh Bolaria A View of Contemporary Latin American Sociology by Louis H. Bluhm Sociology's Academ…
Preference for Men as Bosses and Professionals
Journal Article Preference for Men as Bosses and Professionals Get access Marianne Ferber, Marianne Ferber University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joan Huber, Joan Huber University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Glenna Spitze Glenna Spitze University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Search for other …
Income, Race, and the Ideology of Political Efficacy
Income and ideology: An analysis of the American political formula
Changing women in a changing society
Reply to Blumer: But Who Will Scrutinize the Scrutinizers
Symbolic Interaction as a Pragmatic Perspective: The Bias of Emergent Theory
The epistemology of symbolic interaction derives from the pragmatic model of Dewey and Mead, close associates. This paper argues that the methodology of pragmatism and symbolic interaction permits the perspectives of the researcher and the people in interactive situations to bias the research. Influenced by Hegel, Dewey and Mead adopted an evolutionary, holistic view of reality; progress was inevitable and people were naturally rational. In addit…
The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic, and Political Roles, 1920-1970
The Emergency of Emergent Theory
The Inevitability of Patriarchy.Steven Goldberg
Income and Ideology: An Analysis of the American Political Formula
Sex of Student and Instructor: A Study of Student Bias
This study explores the posibility that women sabotage themselves by a collective antiwoman bias, as alleged in Goldberg's widely cited conclusion that women are prejudiced against women professionals. With 1,291 college students as respondents, this study hypothesized that men are more likely than women to show bias against women teachers or scholars. When former college teachers were evaluated, men students ranked women less favorably than men,…
Comment on Huber's Review of the Inevitability of Patriarchy
Subordinating the Poor: Welfare and American Beliefs
Conflict Sociology: Toward an Explanatory Science
Huber's Reply to Goldberg
Sociology
Toward a Sociotechnological Theory of the Women's Movement
The degree of sex stratification in a society is based on the extent to which males dominate the distribution of resources outside the reproductive unit. The industrial revolution increasingly transferred productive functions outside the family while it reduced women's reproductive functions. These trends reduced women's functions to custodial childcare and domestic service. While industrial demands for labor drew women first into the factory and…
Social Inequality: Class and Caste in America
A Crucible of Opinion on Women's Status: ERA in Illinois
Husbands, Wives, and Careers
This research examines the extent to which spouse's level of education hinders or helps the careers of Ph.D. recipients. Using multiple regression to analyze data obtained from 1,053 persons who received their Ph.D.s from 1958-1963 and 1967-1971, we found that having a Ph.D. spouse negatively affected wives' labor-force participation and husbands' offices held and articles published; there was no direct effect on earnings for either sex. For both…
Preference for Men as Bosses and Professionals
Journal Article Preference for Men as Bosses and Professionals Get access Marianne Ferber, Marianne Ferber University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joan Huber, Joan Huber University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Glenna Spitze Glenna Spitze University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Search for other …
Women in Soviet Society: Equality, Development, and Social Change
Men and Women of the Corporation.Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Changing Attitudes Toward Women's Nonfamily Roles: 1938 To 1978
On the assumption that popular sex-role attitudes and beliefs change in response to long-term technologlcal, demographic, and economic trends, this research tests the extent to which attitude change first occurs among collectivities which benefit most, economically, from new conditions. The theory is tested using data on two questions related to women's status which have been replicated between 1938 and 1978 in AIPO, the GSS, and our own 1978 nat…
Ransacking Mobility Tables
Will U.S. Fertility Decline Toward Zero
Aggregate responses to changing conditions in 19th century industrializing countries show that economic incentives induced populations to decrease fertility despite the use of inconvenient methods, lack of normative support, and strong opposition from church and state. Examining contemporary collective system properties from a socio-economic perspective leads to the conclusion that the U.S. has become structurally antinatalist, despite popular an…
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