
Lillian Rubin has had various influences as far as research is concerned. Foremost, Erving Goffman and Herbert Blumer (the father of Symbolic Interactionism) have been the key players in her research method. Through reading Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss (the founders of Ground Sociology), she understood how to conduct the work, along side with a few of her own ideas.
Her dissertation covered a community in Northern California and how it was affected by and how it was distraught due to a court-ordered school integration plan.
Since her dissertation, she has published eleven books and many articles and essays in various medias. Her writing covers subjects from struggles in school districts to class inequalities.
Her first book was Busing and Backlash: White against White in a California School District. This book covers the problems the Richmond Unified School District faced in 1968 when it decided to desegregate it schools but and required integrated busing for the children. She studied why whites were opposed to such ideas.
A following book was Women of a Certain Age: the Midlife Search for Self. For this book she interviews 160 women between 35 and 54 years of age. This book is noted for its encouragement of middle-aged women to become active in a world that they may have something to add to.
Quiet Rage: Bernie Goetz in a Time of Madness is Rubin’s study of a New York subway shooting in which four black teens were killed. She studied his motives, as well as the lives of those that were killed.
She wrote a book entitled Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution? This book covers the freedom and constraints about sexuality.
Her book entitled Families on the Fault Line: America’s Working Class Speaks about the Family, and Economy, Race, and Ethnicity, examines how economic changes from the time she wrote her second book almost twenty years before have had negative influences on the working class. She covers issues of race and gender and how they have played a role.
The Transcendent Child: Tales of Triumph over the Past covers how people who come from dysfunctional families are able to overcome the difficulties of such constrains. She uses case studies for her research. What she presents is counter to what is socially expected.
Rubin also wrote Tangled Lives: Daughters, Mothers, and the Crucible of Aging. She covers the death of her mother, as well as her own concerns about getting older. It is noted to be one of her more personal books.
Her most recent work is The Man with the Beautiful Voice: And More Stories from the Other Side of the Couch. This book covers her experience as a psychotherapist and her perspective of many of the issues she faced as the professional.
A Deeper Look into a few Specific Works:
Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together covers the growing relationship between men and women and their differences as they grow older. Published in 1984, this is one of Rubin’s most famous books. She studies 150 couples with her knowledge and experience as a clinical psychologists and reveals the roles of gender in relationships, as well as in the home life. She focuses on the difficulty that men and women face as they attempt to change their traditional roles with each other. She explains that although both men and women try hard to transcent, only stereotypes and socialization process are too hard to defeat. Because of this difficulty, society encourages women to remain in the dependent state, while husbands enter the work force. She studies why society shapes us in this manner, and why the social constructions almost lend us a helping hand in this arrangement.
Another well known book written by Rubin is Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family. This book covered the struggles of working class. It features many interviews of middle class families. It is praised as adding new information about the middle class and people’s difficulty for success as blue collared workers. There have been two editions, the first of which was released in 1976. For this book, she conducted research on 50 couples of the white working class, and 25 white couples from the professional middle-class. She studies many of the aspects of the couples such as background, the start of their marriage, gender roles, their sexual relatiopnship, children factors, and their leisure activities. She studies the relationship between economic life, and family life. This book remains relevant because it is one of the few that has studied the working-class, and not only the middle-class. It is highly recommended to those who are interested in the working-class, gender, family and how they are related.
On the subject of friends, she wrote Just Friends: The Role of Friendship in Our Lives covers the involvement of friendship in the lives of adults, a subject that has been understudied by social scientists. It gives a deeper look into the lives of adults and the way friendships develop during adulthood. She interviewed 300 subjects from all creeds between the ages of 25 and 55 for the proper research for this book. She found that the friendships between women were based on intimacy, emotional support, and nuturance, while friendships between men were based upon common activities. She also studies the close ties of kinship and friendship and how they differ. It is an interesting book that offers a great deal of insight for topics that haven’t been broadly reasearched.
Rubin has written many sociologically/psychologically based books that have given way to new findings. She has reached many untouch ground, and uses a wide variety of sources when writing her books, to which it is not a big surprised that she is such a highly acclaimed author.
Sources:
1. Hanson, Sandra. "World of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family by Lillian Rubin."
JSTOR. 1992. http://www.jstor.org/view/00222445/ap020120/02a00240/0?currentResult=00222445%2bap020120%%3Djtx%26jtxsi%3D1%26jcpsi%3D1%26artsi%3D1%26Query%3Dlillian%2Brubin%26wc%3Don.
2. "Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together, by Lillian B. Ruin." JSTOR. 3 Apr.
2007.
3. "Lillian B. Rubin." 19 Oct. 2005. 15 Feb. 2007
4. Miller, Harriet. "Just Friends by Lillian B. Rubin." JSTOR. 3 Apr. 2007.
Her dissertation covered a community in Northern California and how it was affected by and how it was distraught due to a court-ordered school integration plan.
Since her dissertation, she has published eleven books and many articles and essays in various medias. Her writing covers subjects from struggles in school districts to class inequalities.
Her first book was Busing and Backlash: White against White in a California School District. This book covers the problems the Richmond Unified School District faced in 1968 when it decided to desegregate it schools but and required integrated busing for the children. She studied why whites were opposed to such ideas.
A following book was Women of a Certain Age: the Midlife Search for Self. For this book she interviews 160 women between 35 and 54 years of age. This book is noted for its encouragement of middle-aged women to become active in a world that they may have something to add to.
Quiet Rage: Bernie Goetz in a Time of Madness is Rubin’s study of a New York subway shooting in which four black teens were killed. She studied his motives, as well as the lives of those that were killed.
She wrote a book entitled Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution? This book covers the freedom and constraints about sexuality.
Her book entitled Families on the Fault Line: America’s Working Class Speaks about the Family, and Economy, Race, and Ethnicity, examines how economic changes from the time she wrote her second book almost twenty years before have had negative influences on the working class. She covers issues of race and gender and how they have played a role.
The Transcendent Child: Tales of Triumph over the Past covers how people who come from dysfunctional families are able to overcome the difficulties of such constrains. She uses case studies for her research. What she presents is counter to what is socially expected.
Rubin also wrote Tangled Lives: Daughters, Mothers, and the Crucible of Aging. She covers the death of her mother, as well as her own concerns about getting older. It is noted to be one of her more personal books.
Her most recent work is The Man with the Beautiful Voice: And More Stories from the Other Side of the Couch. This book covers her experience as a psychotherapist and her perspective of many of the issues she faced as the professional.
A Deeper Look into a few Specific Works:
Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together covers the growing relationship between men and women and their differences as they grow older. Published in 1984, this is one of Rubin’s most famous books. She studies 150 couples with her knowledge and experience as a clinical psychologists and reveals the roles of gender in relationships, as well as in the home life. She focuses on the difficulty that men and women face as they attempt to change their traditional roles with each other. She explains that although both men and women try hard to transcent, only stereotypes and socialization process are too hard to defeat. Because of this difficulty, society encourages women to remain in the dependent state, while husbands enter the work force. She studies why society shapes us in this manner, and why the social constructions almost lend us a helping hand in this arrangement.
Another well known book written by Rubin is Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family. This book covered the struggles of working class. It features many interviews of middle class families. It is praised as adding new information about the middle class and people’s difficulty for success as blue collared workers. There have been two editions, the first of which was released in 1976. For this book, she conducted research on 50 couples of the white working class, and 25 white couples from the professional middle-class. She studies many of the aspects of the couples such as background, the start of their marriage, gender roles, their sexual relatiopnship, children factors, and their leisure activities. She studies the relationship between economic life, and family life. This book remains relevant because it is one of the few that has studied the working-class, and not only the middle-class. It is highly recommended to those who are interested in the working-class, gender, family and how they are related.
On the subject of friends, she wrote Just Friends: The Role of Friendship in Our Lives covers the involvement of friendship in the lives of adults, a subject that has been understudied by social scientists. It gives a deeper look into the lives of adults and the way friendships develop during adulthood. She interviewed 300 subjects from all creeds between the ages of 25 and 55 for the proper research for this book. She found that the friendships between women were based on intimacy, emotional support, and nuturance, while friendships between men were based upon common activities. She also studies the close ties of kinship and friendship and how they differ. It is an interesting book that offers a great deal of insight for topics that haven’t been broadly reasearched.
Rubin has written many sociologically/psychologically based books that have given way to new findings. She has reached many untouch ground, and uses a wide variety of sources when writing her books, to which it is not a big surprised that she is such a highly acclaimed author.
Sources:
1. Hanson, Sandra. "World of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family by Lillian Rubin."
JSTOR. 1992. http://www.jstor.org/view/00222445/ap020120/02a00240/0?currentResult=00222445%2bap020120%%3Djtx%26jtxsi%3D1%26jcpsi%3D1%26artsi%3D1%26Query%3Dlillian%2Brubin%26wc%3Don.
2. "Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together, by Lillian B. Ruin." JSTOR. 3 Apr.
2007
3. "Lillian B. Rubin." 19 Oct. 2005. 15 Feb. 2007
4. Miller, Harriet. "Just Friends by Lillian B. Rubin." JSTOR. 3 Apr. 2007.
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