Staging reciprocity and mobilizing networks in working families

Hansen, Karen V. “Staging reciprocity and mobilizing networks in working families”. Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper No. 33, Berkeley, CA: Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4097.
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Abstract

Based on in-depth case studies of family networks in Northern California, this article explores the conditions under which working families successfully mobilize networks, and those under which they fail. It analyzes how working parents mobilize networks to help them care for their school-aged children.
Members within the care-giving networks I studied continuously calibrated the extent to which their needs registered on a scale of importance and immediacy. Network members analyzed the context and assessed peoples' commitments, needs, intentions, and capacities in light of their own. Perceptions of value and worth were fundamental to the social construction of fairness and balance. Through this process of perception, valuation, and interpretation, they constructed reciprocity.

Title
Staging reciprocity and mobilizing networks in working families
Author
Hansen, Karen V.
Center
Work and Family Research Network
Genre
working paper
Date Issued
2002
Publisher
Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley
Extent
p. 1
Series Title
Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper
Series Number
No. 33
General Note
Karen V. Hansen is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Working Families from 1999-2000.
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http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4097
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Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States" (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/)

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