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H Z Lopata

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PubMed1980

Changing commitments of American women to work and family roles.

This article, based on a study of Chicago-area women aged 25--54, concentrates on six major dimensions of women's involvement in employment and family roles. First, it breaks new ground in exploring women's attitudes about social security and retirement expectations. Second, it documents cohort changes in overall life patterns, employment, and family role involvements from age 19 to the period studied. The article also focuses on four aspects of those life patterns especially relevant to the social security program: changing levels and patterns of education and job training, factors related to employment rates, differences between full-time homemakers and employees, and a detailed examination of the womens occupations. The study shows that neither social security policies nor retirement plans are matters of everyday concern to the women. Those who believe that social security policies are unfair hold widely differing and partially conflicting views on why and for whom they are unfair. Low-income women often emphasize that their benefits are too small; those involved in jobs or careers emphasize unfairness to different groups.

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PubMed1976

Florian Znaniecki: creative evolution of a sociologist.

Znaniecki devoted his creative life to a constant reexamination of the basic problems of sociology: its subject matter and that methodology through which it can be studied. The developments in his thought can be traced with the help of the prefaces to his books, in which he explains the location of that work in his over-all effort to develop a systematic sociology, the major influences on his thought and his arguments with other theories. Starting as a philosopher with a special interest in the evolution of values, he spent years as a result of Thomas's influence attempting to find a psychological base for human behavior, finally abandoning the attempt in favor of systems of social interaction. He focused on four such systems: social relation, social role, social groups, and societies.

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