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Born in Poznan, Poland to her father Florian Znaniecki, a sociologist, and mother Eileen Markley, an attorney, the family fled Poland to the United States due to Nazi rule.
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Circles and Settings: Role Changes of American Women is an original, comprehensive analysis of changing roles of American women at a time of great upheaval and public, as well as social science, commentary. Using a symbolic interactionist framework, with role seen as a set of negotiated relations, Lopata analyses the roles of wife, mother, kin member (daughter, sister, grandmother) homemaker, job holder in different settings, as well as friend, neighbor, volunteer, and activist. This book comprehensively pulls together all the major involvements of American women using both historical and comparative perspectives to show the evolution of these roles over the last century.
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This unique textbook synthesizes the information available on the topic of widowhood, presenting and then debunking a number of myths surrounding widowhood. The book begins with a definition of basic concepts, followed by a comparative and historical perspective on the situation of widows in several countries and selected communities in the United States. It then explores a range of subjects and issues including emotions, identity, roles and external relationships of widows from cross-cultural perspectives.
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Widowhood in an American City focuses on the roles and lifestyles of urban American widows fifty years of age or older. These women form a segment of two generations of one society; they present a historical instance of people born and brought up under conditions that are not likely to be duplicated. Not only the U.S., but many other countries are undergoing modifications in the degrees and forms of urbanization, industrialization, and social complexity. Helena Znaniecki Lopata argues that the way women re-engage society following the death of a husband is different due to their location in the modern social system. She notes that the trends in social structure are toward increasingly voluntaristic engagement in achieved, functionally oriented social roles that are performed in large groups and contain secondary social relations. The cultural background of many societal members prevents the utilization of most resources of the complex urban world, restricting them to a small social life space, with almost automatically prescribed social relations. Those who argue that the elderly are socially isolated contend that this is a result of the natural process of withdrawal of the person and the society from each other. These arguments focus on those who are isolated or lonely and those who lack the skills, money, health, and transportation for engaging or re-engaging society. Lopata’s study indicates that this assumption is false for many widows. If such people are to be helped, a fresh view of the relation between the urban, industrial, and complex modern world and its residents is required, and new action programs must be creatively developed. This is a timely, ground-breaking work that addresses and shatters common myths associated with growing old alone in an urban society.
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This ninth volume in the series discusses a variety of topics in the field of current research on occupations and professions.
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Based on interviews with women aged 25 to 54 who reside in the Chicago Consolidated Area, this volume explores the occupational involvement of women in the main categories of service, blue-collar, clerical, sales, homemaker (as manager of household), manager, and professional and technical worker. The authors explore the various paths by which the interviewees reached their current occupations, the construction of reality within which they live and carry out their responsibilities, and the ways in which they combine their jobs with other roles, especially those of wife and mother. The in-depth analysis contained in the study complements the findings of Volume 1 of City Women, which provided an overview of current knowledge about American women and their occupations.
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educator researcher sociologist
Born in Poznan, Poland to her father Florian Znaniecki, a sociologist, and mother Eileen Markley, an attorney, the family fled Poland to the United States due to Nazi rule.
After settling in the United States, Lopata finished high school and went on to college to obtain a bachelor"s degree, master"s degree, and finally a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology from the University of Chicago.
Lopata went on to teach at Roosevelt University and then Loyola University, Chicago where she served as chair of the department and Director for the "Center for the Comparative Study of Social Roles". She also took her teaching on the road as a visiting professor at the University of Southern California, University of Guelph, University of Victoria and Boston College. She died in 2002 at the age of 77 in Delavan Lake, Wisconsin.
Helena Lopata published twenty books during her career along with numerous articles
She was elected to many presidencies throughout her career for organizations including SWS, SSSP, chair of many American Statistical Association committees, and participated in many seminars relating to family and the sociology of aging. She did much research on the "occupational housewife" that changed the way Americans looked at the changing roles of women during that time.
She wrote a book on the same topic, which was the first such book She was a professor at Roosevelt University before going to Loyola in 1969 where she did most of her research.
( Based on interviews with women aged 25 to 54 who reside...)
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(Circles and Settings: Role Changes of American Women is a...)
(Circles and Settings: Role Changes of American Women is a...)
(This unique textbook synthesizes the information availabl...)
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(This ninth volume in the series discusses a variety of to...)
( Widowhood in an American City focuses on the roles and...)
Board overseers Wellesley Center of Research and Women, 1979-1984. Fellow Midwest Council for Social Research on Aging (president 1969-1970, 91-92, postdoctoral training director 1971-1977), Illinois Sociological Association (president 1969-1970), Gerontological Society of America (chairman social and behavioral science section 1980-1981, Mentoring award 1995), International Gerontological Association: member Society for Study Social Problems (chairman special problems committee 1971, vice president 1975, council 1978-1980, president 1983, Distinguished Scholar award family division 1989), American Sociological Association (council 1978-1981, chairman section family 1976, chairman section sex roles 1975, Sorokin awwards committee 1970-1973, publications committee 1972-1973, nominations committee 1977, chairman section on aging 1982-1983 (Distinguished Career award, 1992 Section on Aging), Cooley-Blumer awards committee, 1984, Jessie Bernard awards committee 1984-1986, distinguished scholarly publication awards selection committee 1988-1989, awards policy committee 1990-1992, co-chair committee on international sociology, 1992-1995), Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (mem since 1977, Mead award for Life Time Achievement, 1993, Feminist Mentoring award 1999), International Sociological Society (committee on family research, board directors 1991-1994, committee on work since 1972, research committee on aging since 1990), Midwest Sociological Association (state director 1972-1974, president 1975-1976, chair since 1994, publications committee 1993-1995), National Council Family Relations (Burgess award 1990, chair international section 1991-1993), Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in American (director 1976-1982, with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Bronislaw Malinowski award in social science 1995), Polish Welfare Association (board directors 1988-1991), International Institute Sociology, since 1994, Sociologists for Women in Society (member task force alternative work patterns, president 1993-1994, advisory editor Gender and Society 1993-1994).
Married Richard Stefan Lopata, February 8, 1946 (wid. July 1994); children: Theodora Karen Lopata-Menasco, Stefan Richard.
