Theodore N. Greenstein

North Carolina State University

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Shannon N. Davis

Boston Children's Hospital

Larry L. Bumpass

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Harry J. Martin

Universitas Dian Nusantara

Scott J. South

University at Albany, State University of New York

William L. Rankin

Boeing (United States)

Linda J. Waite

University of Chicago

Kathleen A. Kearney

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Kara Joyner

Bowling Green State University

Constance L. Shehan

University of Florida

John P. Marcum

Union Presbyterian Seminary

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John Wiley & Sons (United States)

National Council on Family Relations

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University of Maryland, College Park

University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

Columbus Center

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Why Study Housework? Cleaning as a Window Into Power in Couples

Journal of Family Theory & Review (2013)

Shannon N. Davis Theodore N. Greenstein

Given the volume of research on the division of household labor, this article queries the purpose of continuing to study a phenomenon when the empirical results are remarkably consistent. This introductory article to the special issue asking,“Why study housework?” proffers one possible answer: Studying housework provides insight into the power and equity in intimate relationships. We document how power as a characteristic of social relations, rather than an individual characteristic, has been underexamined in the literature. We argue that by ignoring power, researchers studying housework are missing an opportunity to contribute to broader social scientific conversations on inequality .

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Division of labour

10.1111/jftr.12004

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Social-Psychological Factors in Perinatal Labor-Force Participation

Journal of Marriage and Family (1986)

Theodore N. Greenstein

Using material from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience of Young Women this study analyzes 8 years of panel data from 895 white married women with husband present who had a 1st birth prior to the 1978 interview. This research investigates social-psychological factors that may affect exit from the labor force prior to the birth event and reentry following the birth event. Just 10 years ago only about 1 in 3 mothers with preschoolers was in the labor force; by 1984 over 1/2 were either employed or seeking work. A linear model utilizing 8 independent variables as well as 3 interaction terms was used to predict whether or not a particular woman was in the labor force at the time of the interview. Covariance analyses suggest 1) that there is a large and statistically significant effect of attitude toward married women in the work force on labor-force participation throughout the perinatal period and 2) that the effect of attitude towards married women in the work force on perinatal labor-force participation is stronger than that of proximity to the birth event age age at 1st marriage husbands income or education. The strength of the effect of a social-psychological variable suggests that further research in this area should examine the role of other social and psychological factors. Particular attention needs to be paid to how married couples perceive the costs and rewards associated with the wifes labor-force participation with the understanding that any given cost or reward will not necessarily have the same subjective meaning to different couples.

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Longitudinal Study

10.2307/352042

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Scope Conditions and Crucial Tests: Comment on Lee and Ofshe

Social Psychology Quarterly (1981)

Theodore N. Greenstein

Scope (computer science)

10.2307/3033908

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The five classes

Policy Press eBooks (2020)

Shannon N. Davis Theodore N. Greenstein

Chapter 4 presents findings from couple-level data from the National Study of Families and Households (Wave 1). We employ latent profile analysis to describe categories, or classes, of couples. We found that couples fell into five categories: Ultra-traditional, Traditional, Transitional Husbands, Egalitarian, and Egalitarian High Workload. This chapter presents the profiles of each of these classes of couples based upon their joint division of labor. The analysis is unique in that we use self-reported data from each spouse in order to document patterns across the 3,906 couples for whom we have complete data.

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Division of labour

10.1332/policypress/9781447336747.003.0004

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24. Teaching Methods of Family Research

SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks (2012)

Constance L. Shehan Theodore N. Greenstein

10.4135/9781412990172.d122

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Gender Ideology: Components, Predictors, and Consequences

Annual Review of Sociology (2009)

Shannon N. Davis Theodore N. Greenstein

The purpose of this article is to review research on the construction of gender ideology and its consequences. The article begins with a summary of research focused on measuring gender ideology—individuals' levels of support for a division of paid work and family responsibilities that is based on the belief in gendered separate spheres. We describe the ways this concept has been operationalized in widely available data sources and provide a categorization schema for the items used to measure gender ideology. We also review the research predicting gender ideology, focusing on social and demographic characteristics while concurrently examining studies using cross-sectional, trend, and panel data. Finally, this article summarizes research focused on the consequences of gender ideology, both in families and family-related behaviors and in other areas of social life where beliefs about gender are relevant, such as the workplace. We conclude with implications for future research for measurement tools, predictors of gender ideology, and consequences of ideology in individuals' lives.

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10.1146/annurev-soc-070308-115920

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FACTORS AFFECTING ATTENDANCE OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: TEAM PERFORMANCE

Theodore N. Greenstein John P. Marcum

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Working with Scales and Indices

SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks (2013)

Theodore N. Greenstein Shannon N. Davis

10.4135/9781544308579.n6

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Appendix

Policy Press eBooks (2020)

Shannon N. Davis Theodore N. Greenstein

10.51952/9781447336761.bm001

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For Women, Breadwinning Can Be Dangerous: Gendered Resource Theory and Wife Abuse

Journal of Marriage and Family (2005)

Maxine P. Atkinson Theodore N. Greenstein Molly Monahan Lang

To explain wife abuse, we offer a refinement of relative resource theory, gendered resource theory, which argues that the effect of relative resources is contingent upon husbands’ gender ideologies. We use data from the first wave of the National Survey of Families and Households ( N = 4,296) to test three theories of wife abuse. Resource theory receives no support. Relative resource theory receives limited support. Gendered resource theory receives strong support. Wives’ share of relative incomes is positively related to likelihood of abuse only for traditional husbands. The findings suggest that both cultural and structural forces must be considered to understand marriage as a context for social interactions in which we create our gendered selves.

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Resource dependence theory

10.1111/j.1741-3737.2005.00206.x

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