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Liana C. Sayer is Director of the Maryland Time Use Laboratory and Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland. Her research explores vital questions on when, where and how time use matters, and for whom, over time and space. Published work shows that determinants of household work and gendered relationship dynamics are mediated by culturally distinct working time regimes and gender ideologies, such that progress toward gender equality is thwarted by the deeply intertwined, mutually reinforcing nature of gendered families and institutions. Her research has been published in Journal of Marriage and Family, Social Forces, and American Journal of Sociology. Sayer's current projects reflect new explorations of time use variation within and between social groups, across generations, and around the world. These projects conceptualize time use broadly as a distillation of gendered, classed, and racialized practices that express differential life-course endowments of cultural knowledge, cognitive capacities, social resources, time consciousness and health behaviors. Projects underway are focused on testing new methods of collecting and analyzing time use data and investigating continuity and change in the joint influences of gender, race-ethnicity, and social class on time use across the life course. Joanna Pepin researches inequality connected to revolutionary changes in families, the division of labor, and the gender revolution. She pursues this research agenda using a variety of methodological approaches and data sources: experimental designs, time diary data, attitude surveys, census data, content analyses, and interviews. Her research has been published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Sociological Inquiry and Sociological Spectrum. A co-authored paper with Liana Sayer and Lynne Casper on marital status differences in mother's time in housework, childcare, leisure, and sleep is forthcoming in Demography. Pepin's research has received national media attention, covered by news outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, the Guardian, and Time Magazine. Her dissertation, Inequality and the Household Economy, has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), and the Maryland Population Research Center.
Jisun Min's research investigates women's paid work trajectories over time in cross-national contexts. Her dissertation explores cross-national variations in state-market-family nexus and how different types of the state-market-family triad produce variations in work-family arrangements which are associated with diverse outcomes of women's paid work across countries. Jisun is working on a collaborative project with Dr. Liana Sayer, Dr. Melissa Milkie, and Dr. Sara Raley about second shift and health in cross-national contexts. She is also working with Dr. Julie Park and Dr. Liana Sayer on a project that investigates whether there are similarities or differences in intergenerational caregiving time-use and/or second shift between immigrants and native-born Americans.
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Affiliated Faculty
Fran Goldscheider, Professor of Family Science
Goldscheider’s research focuses primarily on changes in living arrangements in the US and other developed countries. Her early work mapped the increase in living alone among the elderly (particularly in her 1976 papers in Demography and Journal of Marriage and Family), after which she shifted focus to the dramatic changes in the living arrangements of young adults. As marriage ages rose, growing numbers of the unmarried were found living in the parental home but even more were living in independent households. There was also a major increase in returning home as more young adults left home to less stable living arrangements. Gender and ethnicity have been important themes throughout her work on living arrangements, and increasingly she has turned her analyses to the core gender structures underlying the modern family. In her 1991 award-winning study, New Families/No Families: The Transformation of the American Home (with Linda Waite) she linked demographic change with the gender division of labor. Here she first developed the argument that the early years of the gender revolution, which increase women’s participation in the public sphere of education and work, place strains on the family as women face the “double burden?of both paid and domestic work, strains that can be alleviated by the changes needed to complete the gender revolution, in which men increase their participation as fathers in the home. That theoretical approach has led her to her current focus on the determinants of men’s paternal living arrangements, with the increase both in the proportions of men who do not live with their biological children and those who do live with their partner’s children. Two recent papers focus on which men become stepfathers (2006 Journal of Marriage and Family with Sharon Sassler and 2006 Journal of Family Issues with Gayle Kaufman), extending earlier work on the transition to step fatherhood in Sweden (2002 European Sociological Review with Eva Bernhardt). |
Dr. Sandra Hofferth, Professor of Family Science
Sandra Hofferth, Professor in the Department of Family Science at the University of Maryland, is a former Director of the Maryland Population Research Center (2008-2012) and a former co-Director of the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics. She was Vice President of the Population Association of America in 2010. Her research interests are in American children's use of time and later health outcomes, work and family, fathers and fathering, and family policy. She has published on the effects of racial/ethnic disparities at the individual and neighborhood levels on father (and mother) involvement and child outcomes and published a series of papers on social capital. Dr. Hofferth has researched family issues in the context of public policy for over thirty years, publishing three books and more than 100 articles and book chapters. She recently completed a project funded by NICHD that examined the timing of and consequences of parenthood for men and women. Besides her deep knowledge of large national data bases, she has expertise in measurement, methods, and structural equation modeling. Her most recent book is the Handbook of Measurement Issues in Family Research. She is Principal Investigator on an NICHD-funded grant, the American Time Use Survey Data Extract System, which provides advanced extracting capabilities for seven years of time use data on individual time expenditures and on family time allocations to activities across a 24-hour period. |
Dr. Melissa Milkie, Professor of Sociology
Professor Milkie earned her Ph.D. from Indiana University and was Professor at the University of Maryland before joining the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto in 2014. Her expertise lies in the areas of culture, gender & family, the work-family interface, and health. She teaches courses such as the sociology of mental health and disorder, sociology of health and illness, the life course, social psychology, gender, and research methods. Professor Milkie writes extensively about time spent in work and family roles and its implications for health and well-being. With Suzanne Bianchi and John Robinson, she is author of the award-winning Changing Rhythms of American Family Life; this research examines changes in mothers’ and fathers’ time allocations across four decades, as well as parents’ feelings about time. Professor Milkie also systematically examines family dynamics, especially linked to the work-family interface, including how parents’ work-family roles shape children’s health, how a spouse’s work conflicts affect the other partner, and how children influence parents’ mental health. Some of her research assesses cultural models of gender, work and family -- for example surrounding “involved fathering” and “intensive mothering” – and of cultural images of social groups like girls, mothers, or African-Americans – which can be stereotypical and narrow and thus detrimental to health. |
Dr. John P. Robinson, Professor of Sociology
John P. Robinson is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Americans' Use of Time Project as well as Director of the the Internet Scholars Program. He is primarily interested in the study of time and is co-author of several books dealing with the use of time and the quality of life, including Time for Life (with G. Godbey, Penn State Press, 1999), The Rhythm of Everyday Life: How Soviet and American Citizens Use Time (Westview, 1988) and How Americans Use Time (Praeger, 1977). Professor Robinson has also published widely on the social implications of the Internet, and was a contributor on the seminal ARS piece dealing with the study of the Internet (DiMaggio, Hargittai, Neuman, and Robinson, 2001, “Social Implication of the Internet” ARS). This work, undertaken under the auspices of a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, has also led to the creation of a website, www.webuse.umd.edu, which contains a wide variety of internet related data as well as an online statistical tool for analysis of the data (the award winning SDA program created at UC Berkeley). Professor Robinson also co-founded, along with Stanford Professor Norman Nie, a journal, jointly published with the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society, entitled IT and Society (www.itandsociety.org), which publishes up-to date Internet research. In addition, over the past three years Professor Robinson has conducted an annual summer Webshop, where 40-50 top graduate students are brought into College Park and given the opportunity to interact with leading Internet scholars and researchers. |