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Morning: Welcome back. Introduction to Winter Quarter themes, texts and writing. Web-X pictures will be taken as needed.

Group discussion of this material. Announcement of seminar assignments, computer groups, and faculty office hours for this week.

Book seminar: The Way We Never Were, Intro. and Chapters 1-3, pp. x-67

If your are continuing at Garfield or Lincoln, go ahead as usual.

Stephanie and Chuck will hold evaluation conferences with students continuing from fall quarter.  These will be scheduled not to conflict with field work.

See Tuesday.

Field Work Seminar: present your plans, in detail, for the quarter. If you are not continuing at Garfield or Lincoln, then you must identify your work, your schedule and who will supervise you. We will include work on writing useful field notes.

Book Seminar: Coontz, The Way We Never Were, Chapters 1-4, pp. 1-92

Workshop: Student-led review of program so far.

DUE BEFORE LECTURE: Two copies of a statement of your plans for the "legislative hearings" project. Your statement must identify the topic you will study, the question(s) you will address, at least two competing answers you will consider, and the bearing these have on some aspect of public policy as it affects marriage, family, children, sex or gender relations.

Lecture: "The Revolution in Modern Marriage" (Stephanie)

Seminar: Coontz, The Way We Never Were, Chapters 5-8, pp. 93-206

Workshop by the Writing Center on "Recognizing and Developing a Thesis Statement" (L 3407, 3:30 - 5:00)

Field observation seminar

Faculty return Legislative Project statements, and we organize testimony groups.

Book seminar: Coontz, The Way We Never Were, Chapters 9-10, Epilogue, pp. 208-254, 283-88;Cott, Public Vows, Chapters 7-9, pp. 156-227;Graff, pp. 227-253.

Workshop by the Writing Center on "Outlining and Organization" (L 3407, 3:30 - 5:00)

Workshop: Film and Discussion -  Rebel Without a Cause.

Please post your thoughts about the film in web-x on the discussion site found inside the "Winter Quarter" folder.

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II: The Transformation of Gender Roles and Work.

Campus Holiday - Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Use extra time to get ahead on readings!

By 9pm, please post your thoughts about "Rebel Without a Cause," and reponses to comments by Wednesay morning.

Post a description of some event witnessed in the course of your field work (in lieu of posting for the Thursday afternoon seminar.) Offer an interpretation of the event that shows relevance to something discussed by Hochschild in The Second Shift.

Field seminar

Book Seminar: Hochschild, The Second Shift, preface and Chapters 1-9, pp. vii-140.

Due BEFORE WORKSHOP: a revision of your final essay from last quarter. Your topic should be unchanged but the thesis should be revised in light of faculty criticism. Use material from your earlier draft and add relevant material from The Way We Never Were. Clarify the organization of the essay.

Workshop: Ethnographic method - From field notes to ethnography (Maya)

DUE BEFORE LECTURE: Each LP group hands in both a “yes” and a “no” response to the topic-question(s), with two or more pieces of evidence supporting each answer. Provide citations for evidence and also hand in an annotated bibliography of additional sources to be used.

Lecture: gender and changing work roles and identitie (Stephanie)

Book Seminar: Hochschild, The Second Shift, Chapters 10-17, Afterwords, pp. 142-285

Post a more focused description of the event you are interpreting, one that reveals the features of the event to be emphasized in your ethnography.

Field Observation Seminar.

Book Seminar: Dudley, The End of the Line, everything up to p. 47

Workshop: More work on ethnography

Film: "High School" (1968) - a documentary by Frederic Wiseman

Lecture: topic TBA (Maya)

Book Seminar: Dudley, The End of the Line pp. 49-100; Fraser, "After the Family Wage" (on reserve).

STUDENT CONFERENCES: BRING YOUR FIELD OBSERVATIONS JOURNAL.

STUDENT CONFERENCES: BRING YOUR FIELD OBSERVATIONS JOURNAL.

Field Observation Seminar.

Book Seminar:Dudley, The End of the Line pp. 101-182; Sugrue "Poor Families in the Era of Urban Transformation: The Underclass Family in Myth and Reality" (on reserve).

Workshop: race in the classroom (observation of Day of Absence)

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III: Gender Relations, Sexuality and Love

DUE BEFORE LECTURE: Each group or individual presenting legislative testimony turns in an initial draft of their work, including a bilbliography of all sources.

Lecture: "Where's the Middle-Class?" (Chuck)

Seminar: Bailey, Sex in the Heartland, everything to p. 74

Faculty returns drafts of testimony with suggestions.

Morning seminar: Peer group feedback on testimony

Seminar: Bailey, Sex in the Heartland, pp. 75-153; Cancian, "The Feminization of Love" (on reserve).

Happy Valentine's Day!

Workshop:On "Statistical Information" We will work with the article by Paul Krugman,"For Richer." A link is available on the Resources Page. Read Ch. 6 of Using and Understanding Mathematics.

NO CLASS: PRESIDENT'S DAY

Use this time to work on fine-tuning your ethnographies and to get ahead on the readings.

Due BEFORE MORNING SEMINAR: initial draft of Ethnography

Field Observation Seminar: Sharing your ethnographies in class.

Book Seminar: Bailey, Sex in the Heartland, pp. 154-218; Raley "No Good Choices: Teenage Childbearing, Concentrated Poverty and Welfare Reform" (on reserve);

Workshop: Field trip to Capitol campus: sit in on legislative hearings. Meet in L1308 at noon.

Faculty return initial draft of ethnographies, with suggestions.

Workshop: Alan Mauney will continue the work begun on Feb. 14.

Book Seminar: Franklin, What's Love Got to Do With It? Healing the Rift between Black Men and Women pp. 15-112.

Morning Seminar: Franklin, What's Love Got to Do With It? Healing the Rift between Black Men and Women pp.112-212; di Leonardo, "White Lies, Black Myths: Rape, Race and the Black Underclass."

Afternoon: This time is set aside for group work on legislative testimony.

DUE AT BEGINNING OF WORKSHOP: Final draft of legislative testimony

Workshop: Hearing panels organized and hearing process clarified. Video: "Tough Guise"

DUE BEFORE MORNING SEMINAR: Hand in final draft of Ethnography

Field Observation Seminar. (Discussions of what students have learned from their ethnographies and how this might influence thinking about public policy.)

Book Seminar: Coontz and Folbre, "Marriage, Poverty, and Public Policy" (this link, and on reserve); Heritage Foundation articles on marriage as a solution to poverty (on reserve or handout)

NO WORKSHOP: Prepare oral testimony.

 

Excellent drafts of self-evaluations due at 9am.

Presentations to the Evergreen Council on CIFPP will be scheduled, from 9-11 and 12-2. Attendance at all sessions is mandatory.

Presentations to the Evergreen Council on CIFPP will be scheduled, from 9-11 and 12-2. Attendance at all sessions is mandatory.

Presentations to the Evergreen Council on CIFPP will be scheduled, from 10-12. Attendance mandatory.

Potluck Brunch and discussion of LH presentations and... Place to be announced.

You are required to have an evaluation conference with your seminar leader. DO NOT MAKE TRAVEL PLANS BEFORE THE END OF THE WEEK, UNLESS YOU HAVE ARRANGED OTHERWISE WITH YOUR SEMINAR LEADER. Talk with your seminar leader if you have any questions about the conference.