Arlie Hochschild
| Arlie Russell Hochschild | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 15, 1940 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Social Psychology, Sociology of Emotions, Gender and Politics |
| Institutions | University of California-Berkeley |
| Alma mater |
Swarthmore College (BA) University of California-Berkeley (MA, PhD) |
| Known for | The Second Shift, The Managed Heart, The Time Bind |
| Spouse | Adam Hochschild |
Arlie Russell Hochschild (/ˈhoʊkʃɪld/; born January 15, 1940) is an American sociologist and academic. She is professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Hochschild has long focused on the human emotions which underlie moral beliefs, practices, and social life generally. She is the author of nine books including, most recently Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, a finalist for the National Book Award, and The Second Shift, The Managed Heart, and The Time Bind. In the tradition of C. Wright Mills, Hochschild continually tries to draw links between private troubles and social issues.
The child of diplomats, Hochschild early became fascinated with the boundaries people draw between inner experience and outer appearance. As she writes in the preface to her book The Managed Heart: The Commercialization of Human Feeling,
Hochschild graduated from Swarthmore College in 1962 and then earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, whose faculty she soon joined. She wrote her first book, The Unexpected Community, in 1973. As a graduate student, Hochschild was greatly inspired by the writings of Erving Goffman and C. Wright Mills. In White Collar, Mills argued that we "sell our personality." This resonated with Hochschild, but she felt that more needed to be added. As she writes,
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