Heather Hofmeister
Biographic Data
| ID | 93574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Hofmeister |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Hofmeister |
| SIGNATURE | HOFMEISTER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | RWTH Aachen University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 151 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The intergenerational transmission of gender: Paternal influences on children's gender attitudes
Objective This study provides the first systematic longitudinal analysis of the influence of paternal involvement in family life—across childhood and adolescence—on the gender‐role attitudes of children by the age of 14 or 15. Background Recent research suggests that, in post‐industrial societies, paternal involvement in family life is increasing. Although previous studies of paternal involvement have considered paternal influences on children's …
The gender order in action: Consistent Evidence From Two Distinct Workplace Settings
In this article, we elaborate an integrative framework of the gender order that considers gender as something simultaneously structurally outside of individual action and as constantly done through interaction. Combining a structural perspective with micro-interactionist accounts makes it possible to show how these mechanisms manifest themselves and how individuals engage with and concretely ‘do gender’ in situ. We focus on three mechanisms throu…
Work Through a Gender Lens: More Work and More Sources of Meaningfulness
This chapter argues that the definition of work, and its meaningfulness potential, broaden when using a gender perspective. The historical legacy of gender differentiation in work results in blindness to activities that are “work” and to gender inequality within kinds of work. An inclusive definition of “work” would be activities or thoughts that affirm life and growth, imagine or create the future, or abate or delay death and decay. At least nin…
The relevance of place and family stage for styles of community involvement
Community involvement may be a nuanced aspect of individuals' lives, and the place of residence could play a role. In this paper, we created a measure of four different styles of community involvement using cluster analysis, then investigated how education, work involvement, family stage (marriage and parenthood and age of the youngest child), gender, and the local residential community influence the style of involvement for a randomly sampled su…
Individualisation of the life course
Some like Them Hot: How Germans Construct Male Attractiveness
This study investigates what makes a man attractive to a woman in Germany, using a sample of 691 German citizens aged 18 to 92, collected in 2006, randomly sampled from resident registration lists in four representative regions. We test the idea that attractiveness is socially constructed and create measures of attractiveness using agreements of respondents to 16 statements. The three dimensions that emerged were breadwinning ability, relationshi…
Converging Divergences: An International Comparison of the Impact of Globalization on Industrial Relations and Employment Careers
Profound social and economic transformations have taken place over the last two decades in modern societies. These changes are often referred to as globalization. The aim of this article is to examine whether processes of globalization have produced increasing convergence of employment-related aspects of national-level welfare regimes, industrial relation systems and mid-career employment paths among a set of industrialized nations. A theory of c…
Contemporary Processes of Transnationalization and Globalization
This opening article to this special issue on transnationalization and globalization first describes how transnationalization is different from globalization. It clarifies recent debates regarding the processes of transnationalization and locates the authors of this issue within these frameworks. In the process, this article and the special issue help unravel the dynamics of the complex term and phenomenon 'transnationalization' and point to dire…
Life Courses in the Globalization Process: The Development of Social Inequalities in Modern Societies
This article examines the impact of the globalization process on individual life courses and employment careers in modern societies from an international comparative perspective. Empirical results are summarized from the GLOBALIFE research project (Life Courses in the Globalization Process), which studied the effects of globalization on life courses for the first time. As the results demonstrate, the globalization process has had diverse effects …
Globalisierung und die Veränderung sozialer Ungleichheiten in modernen Gesellschaften: Eine Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse des GLOBALIFE-Projektes
Globalization, Uncertainty and Women’s Careers: An International Comparison
Globalization, argue the contributors to this book, has remarkably accelerated social and economic change in modern societies. One such change is manifested in the world of work and careers. This book explores whether the forces of globalization affect the erosion of standard career patterns of mid-career men in twelve OECD countries. Overwhelming evidence against the ‘individualization of inequality’ thesis is provided – it is argued that equali…
Globalization, Uncertainty and Women’s Mid-Career Life Courses: A Theoretical Framework
Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen Ueberblick ueber Konzepte und Theorien, die im weiteren Verlauf des Buches 'Getting Ahead under Globalization: Mid-Career Women in Uncertain Times' verwendet werden. Abschnitt 1.2 definiert die Konzeptualisierung von Globalisierung und stellt die Dimensionen dieser Definition vor: den Prozess der Internationalisierung der Maerkte auf der Makroebene, die Intensivierung der globalen Konkurrenz, die Auswirkung der …
Late 20th-Century Persistence and Decline of the Female Homemaker in Germany and the United States
The article compares changes in West German and American women's mid-career job exits and re-entries and introduces an innovative event-history model to compare mobility across three decades using 1940s and 1950s birth cohorts from the German Life History Study and the US National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women. Processes by which transitions through parenthood and marriage impact women's labour market participation vary by country and cohort…
Couples' Work/Retirement Transitions, Gender, and Marital Quality
We investigate whether couples' employment/retirement circumstances predict marital quality differently for men and for women, using a life course framework and two waves of data. We find that the actual retirement transition (from one's primary career job) is related to declines in marital quality for both husbands and wives. Married men and women who move into retirement while their spouses remain employed report the greatest marital conflict, …
Work, Family, and Religious Involvement for Men and Women
Do family formation and social establishment affect religious involvement in the same way for men and women, given increasing individualism and rapid changes in work and family roles? Using a random sample of adults from upstate New York (N = 1,006), our research builds on previous work in this area by using multiple measures of religious involvement, using multiple measures of individualism and beliefs about work and family roles, placing men an…
Late Midlife Employment, Gender Roles and Marital Quality: His and Her Perspectives
Studies of work and family conflict often overlook the late midlife stage and often do not consider the relationship between past employment and the current marital strain of both spouses. In this paper, we employ a life course perspective to examine the conjoint influences of each spouse's past and present work experiences on the marital quality of both spouses in late midlife, considering spouses' gender role ideologies as possible moderators o…
Life Courses in the Globalization Process: The Development of Social Inequalities in Modern Societies
This article examines the impact of the globalization process on individual life courses and employment careers in modern societies from an international comparative perspective. Empirical results are summarized from the GLOBALIFE research project (Life Courses in the Globalization Process), which studied the effects of globalization on life courses for the first time. As the results demonstrate, the globalization process has had diverse effects …
Work, Family, and Religious Involvement for Men and Women
Do family formation and social establishment affect religious involvement in the same way for men and women, given increasing individualism and rapid changes in work and family roles? Using a random sample of adults from upstate New York (N = 1,006), our research builds on previous work in this area by using multiple measures of religious involvement, using multiple measures of individualism and beliefs about work and family roles, placing men an…
Couples' Work/Retirement Transitions, Gender, and Marital Quality
We investigate whether couples' employment/retirement circumstances predict marital quality differently for men and for women, using a life course framework and two waves of data. We find that the actual retirement transition (from one's primary career job) is related to declines in marital quality for both husbands and wives. Married men and women who move into retirement while their spouses remain employed report the greatest marital conflict, …
Late 20th-Century Persistence and Decline of the Female Homemaker in Germany and the United States
The article compares changes in West German and American women's mid-career job exits and re-entries and introduces an innovative event-history model to compare mobility across three decades using 1940s and 1950s birth cohorts from the German Life History Study and the US National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women. Processes by which transitions through parenthood and marriage impact women's labour market participation vary by country and cohort…
Converging Divergences: An International Comparison of the Impact of Globalization on Industrial Relations and Employment Careers
Profound social and economic transformations have taken place over the last two decades in modern societies. These changes are often referred to as globalization. The aim of this article is to examine whether processes of globalization have produced increasing convergence of employment-related aspects of national-level welfare regimes, industrial relation systems and mid-career employment paths among a set of industrialized nations. A theory of c…
Globalisierung und die Veränderung sozialer Ungleichheiten in modernen Gesellschaften: Eine Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse des GLOBALIFE-Projektes
Contemporary Processes of Transnationalization and Globalization
This opening article to this special issue on transnationalization and globalization first describes how transnationalization is different from globalization. It clarifies recent debates regarding the processes of transnationalization and locates the authors of this issue within these frameworks. In the process, this article and the special issue help unravel the dynamics of the complex term and phenomenon 'transnationalization' and point to dire…
The gender order in action: Consistent Evidence From Two Distinct Workplace Settings
In this article, we elaborate an integrative framework of the gender order that considers gender as something simultaneously structurally outside of individual action and as constantly done through interaction. Combining a structural perspective with micro-interactionist accounts makes it possible to show how these mechanisms manifest themselves and how individuals engage with and concretely ‘do gender’ in situ. We focus on three mechanisms throu…
Late Midlife Employment, Gender Roles and Marital Quality: His and Her Perspectives
Studies of work and family conflict often overlook the late midlife stage and often do not consider the relationship between past employment and the current marital strain of both spouses. In this paper, we employ a life course perspective to examine the conjoint influences of each spouse's past and present work experiences on the marital quality of both spouses in late midlife, considering spouses' gender role ideologies as possible moderators o…
The relevance of place and family stage for styles of community involvement
Community involvement may be a nuanced aspect of individuals' lives, and the place of residence could play a role. In this paper, we created a measure of four different styles of community involvement using cluster analysis, then investigated how education, work involvement, family stage (marriage and parenthood and age of the youngest child), gender, and the local residential community influence the style of involvement for a randomly sampled su…
Individualisation of the life course
Late Midlife Employment, Gender Roles and Marital Quality: His and Her Perspectives
Studies of work and family conflict often overlook the late midlife stage and often do not consider the relationship between past employment and the current marital strain of both spouses. In this paper, we employ a life course perspective to examine the conjoint influences of each spouse's past and present work experiences on the marital quality of both spouses in late midlife, considering spouses' gender role ideologies as possible moderators o…
Couples' Work/Retirement Transitions, Gender, and Marital Quality
We investigate whether couples' employment/retirement circumstances predict marital quality differently for men and for women, using a life course framework and two waves of data. We find that the actual retirement transition (from one's primary career job) is related to declines in marital quality for both husbands and wives. Married men and women who move into retirement while their spouses remain employed report the greatest marital conflict, …
Work, Family, and Religious Involvement for Men and Women
Do family formation and social establishment affect religious involvement in the same way for men and women, given increasing individualism and rapid changes in work and family roles? Using a random sample of adults from upstate New York (N = 1,006), our research builds on previous work in this area by using multiple measures of religious involvement, using multiple measures of individualism and beliefs about work and family roles, placing men an…
Globalization, Uncertainty and Women’s Careers: An International Comparison
Globalization, argue the contributors to this book, has remarkably accelerated social and economic change in modern societies. One such change is manifested in the world of work and careers. This book explores whether the forces of globalization affect the erosion of standard career patterns of mid-career men in twelve OECD countries. Overwhelming evidence against the ‘individualization of inequality’ thesis is provided – it is argued that equali…
Globalization, Uncertainty and Women’s Mid-Career Life Courses: A Theoretical Framework
Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen Ueberblick ueber Konzepte und Theorien, die im weiteren Verlauf des Buches 'Getting Ahead under Globalization: Mid-Career Women in Uncertain Times' verwendet werden. Abschnitt 1.2 definiert die Konzeptualisierung von Globalisierung und stellt die Dimensionen dieser Definition vor: den Prozess der Internationalisierung der Maerkte auf der Makroebene, die Intensivierung der globalen Konkurrenz, die Auswirkung der …
Late 20th-Century Persistence and Decline of the Female Homemaker in Germany and the United States
The article compares changes in West German and American women's mid-career job exits and re-entries and introduces an innovative event-history model to compare mobility across three decades using 1940s and 1950s birth cohorts from the German Life History Study and the US National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women. Processes by which transitions through parenthood and marriage impact women's labour market participation vary by country and cohort…
Globalisierung und die Veränderung sozialer Ungleichheiten in modernen Gesellschaften: Eine Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse des GLOBALIFE-Projektes
Some like Them Hot: How Germans Construct Male Attractiveness
This study investigates what makes a man attractive to a woman in Germany, using a sample of 691 German citizens aged 18 to 92, collected in 2006, randomly sampled from resident registration lists in four representative regions. We test the idea that attractiveness is socially constructed and create measures of attractiveness using agreements of respondents to 16 statements. The three dimensions that emerged were breadwinning ability, relationshi…
Converging Divergences: An International Comparison of the Impact of Globalization on Industrial Relations and Employment Careers
Profound social and economic transformations have taken place over the last two decades in modern societies. These changes are often referred to as globalization. The aim of this article is to examine whether processes of globalization have produced increasing convergence of employment-related aspects of national-level welfare regimes, industrial relation systems and mid-career employment paths among a set of industrialized nations. A theory of c…
Contemporary Processes of Transnationalization and Globalization
This opening article to this special issue on transnationalization and globalization first describes how transnationalization is different from globalization. It clarifies recent debates regarding the processes of transnationalization and locates the authors of this issue within these frameworks. In the process, this article and the special issue help unravel the dynamics of the complex term and phenomenon 'transnationalization' and point to dire…
Life Courses in the Globalization Process: The Development of Social Inequalities in Modern Societies
This article examines the impact of the globalization process on individual life courses and employment careers in modern societies from an international comparative perspective. Empirical results are summarized from the GLOBALIFE research project (Life Courses in the Globalization Process), which studied the effects of globalization on life courses for the first time. As the results demonstrate, the globalization process has had diverse effects …
Individualisation of the life course
The relevance of place and family stage for styles of community involvement
Community involvement may be a nuanced aspect of individuals' lives, and the place of residence could play a role. In this paper, we created a measure of four different styles of community involvement using cluster analysis, then investigated how education, work involvement, family stage (marriage and parenthood and age of the youngest child), gender, and the local residential community influence the style of involvement for a randomly sampled su…
Work Through a Gender Lens: More Work and More Sources of Meaningfulness
This chapter argues that the definition of work, and its meaningfulness potential, broaden when using a gender perspective. The historical legacy of gender differentiation in work results in blindness to activities that are “work” and to gender inequality within kinds of work. An inclusive definition of “work” would be activities or thoughts that affirm life and growth, imagine or create the future, or abate or delay death and decay. At least nin…
The intergenerational transmission of gender: Paternal influences on children's gender attitudes
Objective This study provides the first systematic longitudinal analysis of the influence of paternal involvement in family life—across childhood and adolescence—on the gender‐role attitudes of children by the age of 14 or 15. Background Recent research suggests that, in post‐industrial societies, paternal involvement in family life is increasing. Although previous studies of paternal involvement have considered paternal influences on children's …
The gender order in action: Consistent Evidence From Two Distinct Workplace Settings
In this article, we elaborate an integrative framework of the gender order that considers gender as something simultaneously structurally outside of individual action and as constantly done through interaction. Combining a structural perspective with micro-interactionist accounts makes it possible to show how these mechanisms manifest themselves and how individuals engage with and concretely ‘do gender’ in situ. We focus on three mechanisms throu…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Globalization (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (5 works)