DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 28th
Professor Margaret O'Brien,
Co-Director,
Centre for Research on the Child and the Family,
Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of East Anglia,
Norwich NR4 7TJ,
UK
Tel: 01603-593-589
Fax: 01603-593-552
http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/schools/ssf/swp/people/mobrien
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Subject: FW: World Congress of Sociology, Sweden, July 2010 Men, Work and
Parenting session
For interested colleagues - deadline August 15 2009
Professor Margaret O'Brien,
Co-Director,
Centre for Research on the Child and the Family, Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Tel: 01603-593-589
Fax: 01603-593-552
http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/schools/ssf/swp/people/mobrien
ISA's Committee on Family Research (RC06): CFR program for ISA 2010 XVII
World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 11 - 17
Session 5: Men, Work and Parenting
Joint Session with RC30 - Sociology of Work
Organizers: Linda L. Haas & Margaret O'Brien
Position Haas: Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Indiana
University - Indianapolis, 425 University Boulevard, Indianapolis IN 46202,
USA,
Tel. 317-274-7384, Fax: 317-278-3654
Position O'Brien: Professor & Co-Director, Centre for Research on the Child
and the Family & Faculty of Social Sciences, University of East Anglia,
Elizabeth Fry Building, Norwich NR4 7TJ UK
Tel: 01603-593-589, Fax: 01603-593-552
E-mail: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
Description: For most men, paid work and family caregiving are important
sources of identity and personal satisfaction. According to the social
constructionist perspective on gender, how men combine employment and family
responsibilities reflects assumptions and norms in the gendered social
institutions of family and work. Within the family, women are expected to
have more responsibility than men for caregiving and men are assumed to be
less capable caregivers. In the workplace, companies have assumed that
workers are unencumbered by family responsibilities, rendering men's
caregiving invisible at work. For gender equality to be reached, cultural
beliefs, public policies and workplace practices must support a presumption
of shared care, whereby men are regarded as capable, willing and involved
family caregivers as women.
Papers that address linkages between men, work and family are invited for
this session. Possible topics include: men's constructions of caring;
effects of public policy on men's ability to combine paid work and family
caregiving; impact of employment on men's caregiving; men's strategies for
work-family harmonization; men's breadwinner attitudes and behavior; men's
work and family tradeoffs; effects of overload and overwork on men's
relationships in families; impact of caregiving on men's employment; men's
use of workplace or government policies designed to facilitate combining
work and family; characteristics of father-friendly workplaces; the
fatherhood "wage premium." Papers that include diversity by race, ethnicity,
sexual orientation, marital status and social class as well as those that
cover more than one society are especially sought. Proposals should be sent
to both organizers.
Deadlines:
August 15, 2009, Paper proposals submitted to session organizer(s)
September through November, 2009, Review of papers and organization of
sessions.
December 1, 2009, Session Organizers submit details of on sessions (authors'
name, affiliation, e-mail, paper title, and abstracts).
January 31, 2010, Programme Coordinators to submit the details of the
sessions programmes (authors' name, affiliation, e-mail, and paper title).
May 1, 2010, (1) Pre-registration deadline for all programme participants
(presenters, chairs, discussants, etc.). Otherwise their names will not
appear in the Programme Book and abstracts of their papers will not be
published.
(2) Deadline for on-line submission of abstracts of accepted papers to the
Cambridge Sociological Abstracts web site. Abstracts are only accepted by
the system from those who are already registered for the Congress.
Full Family Research Programme Coordinators
Rudy Ray Seward, Vice President of CFR
Professor of Sociology,
Department of Sociology
University of North Texas
115 Union Circle #311157
Denton, Texas 76203-1157
Phone: 940.565.2295
Fax: 940.369.7035
Email: [log in to unmask]
and
Ria Smit, Secretary and Treasurer of CFR Professor of Sociology Department
of Sociology University of Johannesburg
Telephone: ( 27) 011 559 2319
Facsimile: ( 27) 011 559 3787]
Email: [log in to unmask];
Sessions: Planning 16 regular sessions including at least 14 paper sessions
and one and possibly two poster sessions are proposed. Paper sessions may
include both presentation (maximum recommended 5) and distribution papers.
The poster session(s) will include papers submitted directly to the
organizer and papers passed on from other session.
We also intend to propose a special session on the Congress theme
tentatively titled "Family sociology on the move: New research and
approaches to understanding change", work with other RCs as we have in the
past on several joint sessions, and a possible Integrative Session. In
addition we hope to have an opening reception.
Professor Margaret O'Brien,
Co-Director,
Centre for Research on the Child and the Family, Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Tel: 01603-593-589
Fax: 01603-593-552
http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/schools/ssf/swp/people/mobrien
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