Publications

Some of these CEEL papers are only available as abstracts. These have been grouped at the top of the list. The rest, further down the page, are available in their full length. All of these CEEL working papers and abstracts are in PFD format.

Paper Abstracts

"Work-Related Issues and Everyday Life: Re-Thinking a Focus for Social Work Interventions." (CEEL Working Paper 050-05) - Lawrence S. Root and Youn-Joon Choi

"Till Death Do Us Part or I Get My Pension?: Wives' Pension and Marital Dissolution in the U.S." (CEEL Working Paper 002-99) April 1999 - Hiromi Ono and Frank Stafford.

"Race/Ethnic Differences in Father Involvement with Young Children" (CEEL Working Paper 004-99) July 1999 - Sandra L. Hofferth

"They'll drop you like a hot potato:" Work-Family Balance in Contexts of Increasing Inequality" (CEEL Working Paper 015-00) January 2000 - Elizabeth C. Rudd

"Making Sense of Maternity Leave" (CEEL Working Paper 016-00) November 2000 - Elizabeth C. Rudd

"A Wife's Seperate Financial Arrangement in Contemporary Japan" (CEEL Working Paper 018-00) January 2000 - Hiromi Ono

"Parental Ideologies and Children's After-School Activities" (CEEL Working Paper 021-01) April 5, 2001 - Janet S. Dunn, David A. Kinney and Sandra L. Hofferth

"Taking Culture Seriously: Making the Social Survey Ethnographic" (CEEL Working Paper 022-01) April 2001 - Tom Fricke

"Studying West River: North Dakota Field Letters, 2000" (CEEL Working Paper 024-01) August 2001 - Tom Fricke

"The Farming Family: Work, Character, and Change in Rural America" (CEEL Working Paper 026-01) May 2001 - Tom Fricke

"Staying and Leaving Home: The Impact of Close Encounters with the Fifties in Midwestern Families" (CEEL Working Paper 027-01) May 2001 - Abigail J. Stewart, David G. Winter, Donna Henderson-King and Eaaron Henderson-King

"Moving Away: Resisting the Dominant Culture of High School" (CEEL Working Paper 028-01) August 2001 - David G. Winter, Abigail J. Stewart, Eaaron I. Henderson King and Donna Henderson-King

"Fatherhood and Marriage: A Review" (CEEL Working Paper 030-01) September 2001 - Todd Goodsell

"Habits of the Heartland: Changing Work-Family Cultures in the Northern Plains" (CEEL Working Paper 033-02) - Tom Fricke

"Linking "broad connotations" with "specific transactions": An Embedded View of Work-Family Arrangements" (CEEL Working Paper 035-02) July 2002 - Elizabeth C. Rudd

"A Taste of Overtime" (CEEL Working Paper 040-02) August 2002 - Elizabeth C. Rudd, Lawrence S. Root, and Alford A. Young

"Socialist "Mommies" Into Subordinate Wives?: Negotiating Work-Family Balance After Socialism" (CEEL Working Paper 041-03) March 2003 - Elizabeth C. Rudd

"Family Leave: A Policy Concept Made in America" (CEEL Working Paper 043-03) August 2003 - Elizabeth C. Rudd

"Pregnancy and Family Leave: "Hybrid" Policies of Workplace Welfare" (CEEL Working Paper 045-03) July 2003 - Elizabeth C. Rudd

Full papers

"Changing Cultures of Family & Work: Background Document for the Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life" (CEEL Working Paper 001-98) October 1998 - Tom Fricke.

"Women's Employment and Care of Children in the United States" (CEEL Working Paper 003-99) July 1999 - Sandra L. Hofferth

"Family Reading to Young Children: Social Desirability and Cultural Biases in Reporting" (CEEL Working Paper 005-99) May 13, 1999 - Sandra L. Hofferth

"Work and Family Values: Life Scripts in the Midwest in the 1950s" (CEEL Working Paper 006-00) March 4, 2000 - Abigail J. Stewart, Donna Henderson-King, Eaaron Henderson-King and David G. Winter

"Media and the Work/Family Interface" (CEEL Working Paper 007-00) June 28, 2000 - Lara Descartes and Conrad Kottak

"The Next One Changes Everything: Parental Adjustment to the Second Child Among Middle-Class American Families" (CEEL Working Paper 008-00) August 10, 2000 - Rebecca L. Upton

"Gender, Race and Generation: Life Scripts from the Midwest US in the 1950s"(CEEL Working Paper 010-00) July 25, 2000 - Abigail J. Stewart, David G. Winter, Donna Henderson-King and Eaaron Henderson-King

"Education, Race, and the American Dream: The Life and Death of a Midwest High School"(CEEL Working Paper 009-00) September 4, 2000 - David G. Winter

"Family Strategies for Managing the Time Crunch" (CEEL Working Paper 011-00) September 5, 2000 - David A. Kinney, Janet S. Dunn and Sandra L. Hofferth

"How American Children Spend their Time" (CEEL Working Paper 012-00) April 17, 2000 - Sandra L. Hofferth and John F. Sandberg

"Changes in American Children's Time, 1981-1997" (CEEL Working Paper 013-00) September 11, 2000 - Sandra L. Hofferth and John F. Sandberg

"Changes in Children's Time with Parents, U.S. 1981-1997" (CEEL Working Paper 014-00) November 27, 2000 - John F. Sandberg and Sandra L. Hofferth

"Intermarriage Between Previously Divorced and Previously Never Married Persons in the United States, 1970-1988" (CEEL Working Paper 017-00) October 2000 - Hiromi Ono

"Race/Ethnic Differences in Father Involvement in Two-Parent Families: Culture, Context, or Economy" (CEEL Working Paper 019-01) February 2001 - Sandra L. Hofferth

"Maternity and Its Discontents" (CEEL Working Paper 020-01) April 2001 - Sallie S. Han and Rebecca L. Upton

"Media in the Middle: Work, Family, and Media Use in a Middle Class Midwestern Town" (CEEL Working Paper 023-01) March 2001 - Lara Descartes and Corad P. Kottak

"When a Metaphor "Works": Contestation, Rationalization and Responsibility in Middle Class Labor" (CEEL Working Paper 025-01) September 2001 - Gail E. Bader, William Graves III and James M. Nyce

"Life-Style Migration in the Midwest: Changes in the Culture of Family and Work in America's Post-Industrial Middle-Class" (CEEL Working Paper 029-01) September 2001 - Brian A. Hoey

"SuperDad and the Provider and Other Myths of Fatherhood: How Having a Second Child Affects the Construction of Male Identity in America" (CEEL Working Paper 031-01) September 2001 - Rebecca L. Upton

"Life-Style Migration in the Post-Industrial Middle-Class as a Strategy for Feeling Greater Control, Balance, and Integration in Work, Family, and Personal Life " (CEEL Working Paper 034-02) - Brian A. Hoey

"A Culture of Expectations: The Imagined Family in the American Middle Class" (CEEL Working Paper 036-02) August 2002 - Rebecca L. Upton

"The First Picture Show: A Media Anthropology Approach to the Ultrasound" (CEEL Working Paper 037-02) - Sallie Han

"Belly Talk: How "Parent" and "Child" Become Constituted Through Talk" (CEEL Working Paper 038-02) - Sallie Han