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We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Time
Phones
Illusion
Somewhere
Cell Phones
Every
Think
Extra
Saving
Constant
Minute
Voice
Mail
Computers
Squeezing
Cell
Getting
Often
Just
Gain
Us
Create
Really
Help
Chain
Foster
Activity
Things
Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Face
Parents
Unmarried
Married
Seeing
Born
Risk
Higher
Up
Than
America
Children
Break
Break Up
Them
Sweden
Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Buy
Car
Faster
New
New Car
Discard
Doing
iPhone
Been
Years
Again
Here
Recent
Recent Years
Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Family
Values
Free
Market
Those
Paradoxically
Seek
Observing
Between
Also
Call
Without
Cultural
Links
Wonders
Family Values
Hold
Subtle
Regulate
Who
In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Love
Government
Food
Parenting
Marriage
Culture
Try
Care
Slow
Our
Out
Response
Would
Would-Be
Vital
Parental
Parenthood
Could
Toward
Supports
Ready
Leave
Child
Child Care
Move
Maybe
Movement
Public
Paid
Appeared
Growing
Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Edge
Research
Final
Market
Our
Intimate
Our Lives
Out
Telling
Some
Someone
Could
Outsourcing
Parts
Hire
Arrived
Wonder
Frontier
Want
Figure
Such A Thing
Moment
Lives
Thing
The explosion in the number of available personal services says a great deal about changing ideas of what we can reasonably expect from whom.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Great
Great Deal
Changing
Says
About
Ideas
Deal
Expect
Personal
Available
Explosion
Reasonably
Whom
Services
Number
Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Failure
Cause
Important
Young
Omission
Moral
Embrace
Lies
John
John F. Kennedy
More
Inspired
He
Part
Sin
Idealism
Beyond
Himself
Surely
Answer
Reduced
His
Clinton
Personal
Bill
Bill Clinton
Lapse
Popularity
Actually
Monica
Monica Lewinsky
Kennedy
Lewinsky
If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Together
People
Events
Trend
Collective
Big
Young
Action
Security
See
Drew
More
Previous
Individual
Toward
Leads
Terms
Greater
Historic
Decades
Little
Them
Double
Choice
Less
Large
Oriented
Lives
Recent
We don't live with the community of yesteryear. And we don't enjoy the public services Europeans do. So we turn to the market. Once we do, we find that service providers raise the standards of personal life, so that we come to feel we need them to live our 'best' personal lives.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Life
Service
Best
Personal Life
Community
Live
Enjoy
Market
Our
Once
Find
Feel
Come
Providers
Personal
Personal Lives
Public
Them
Turn
Standards
Europeans
Lives
Service Providers
Services
Raise
Need
And we're in the middle of a 'perfect storm.' These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Government
World
Looking
Rich
About
More
More And More
Perfect
Between
Days
Like
Most
Makes
Very
Anxious
Middle
Being
Where
Storm
Social
Poor
Us
Stand
Gap
Growing
Services
And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Dreams
Family
Progress
Goodness
Party
Market
Our
Points
Idea
Toward
Answer
Mall
Personal
Republican
Republican Party
Us
Associates
What is for sale, what is not? If we really think that making your apologies to your wife or reading a bedside story to your child are activities that we can pay a stranger to do, then, without moralising, what has happened to us?
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Wife
Reading
Pay
Think
Without
Making
Bedside
Sale
Child
Happened
Story
Then
Us
Really
Apology
Your
Your Child
Stranger
Activities
It's been a long struggle. But we've made huge progress. I mean, when I started at Berkeley, women weren't allowed to be part of the band. No women were allowed into the male faculty club. I mean, I was there. I remember that! The worlds were so divided. So the change has been huge.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Change
Struggle
Women
Progress
Remember
Made
Long
Band
Club
Worlds
Berkeley
Has-Been
Divided
Faculty
Allowed
Long Struggle
Part
Were
Been
Male
Huge
Mean
Started
Corporate engineers have looked at how women are with each other, borrowing the best tips from female neighborhood culture and then transporting them back into the bosom of capitalism. They've feminized capitalism.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Best
Capitalism
Culture
Women
Other
Back
Corporate
Neighborhood
Borrowing
Bosom
Looked
Female
How
Women Are
Tips
Them
Then
Engineers
Transporting
Each
Most of us have jobs that require some handling of other peoples' feelings and our own, and in that sense, we are all partly flight attendants.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
People
Feelings
Own
Sense
Other
Our
Jobs
Some
Most
Partly
Handling
Us
Require
Flight
I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Work
Love
Family
Had
Counter
Toward
Make
Felt
Ferociously
Room
Worker
Hard
Hard Worker
Pull
Pulled
I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Time
You
Important
Sense
Passing
Wanted
Really
I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the children were Israeli... Suddenly, I found myself speaking the wrong language, dressed in the wrong clothes, picked up by the wrong mode of transportation - an embassy car instead of a bus.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Myself
School
Language
Car
Parents
Clothes
Ninety-Nine
Ninety-Nine Percent
Embassy
Dressed
Percent
Picked
Put
Wrong
Instead
Mission
Israel
Israeli
Were
Up
Scottish
Mode
Moved
Children
Bus
Speaking
Transportation
Suddenly
Found
Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a 'leisure gap' between them at home. Most women work one shift in the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Work
Home
Women
Men
Men And Women
Factory
Between
Most
Wage
Shift
Office
Just
Leisure
Them
Workplace
Gap
Second
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
Benjamin E. Mays
Unable
Ideal
Disaster
Your
Capture
I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around.
Bernadine Dohrn
Today
You
People
Myth
Young
Group
Think
Relative
Ways
Some
Small
Small Group
Almost
Know
Partly
Around
Felt
Always
Doing
Opposition
Sixties
Young People
Barrier
I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.
Bernadine Dohrn
History
Events
Disagree
Big
Guess
Strongly
Feel
Very
Movements
Notion
I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.
Bernadine Dohrn
Me
History
Feel
Version
Versions
Any
Just
Agree
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
Bernadine Dohrn
Never
Supported
Mass
Most
Inflamed
Moment
Even
I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
Bernadine Dohrn
Felt
Were
Juries
Grand
Illegal
Coercive
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