Finding Balance Between Work & Family
For this paper, you will interview someone who works in an occupation or field that interests you. Perhaps you are interested in exploring a field that you plan to go into, or a field/job/work situation of someone you know (a parent, friend, relative). The key will be to integrate into your analysis one or several class concepts. Thus, you will use concepts learned throughout the course and apply them to a real-life working situation. 6 full pages, word count at least 2000.
You may draw from any of the concepts we discuss in class. Some of the more popular choices include:
- Emotional labor
- Work in a sex-typed occupation (i.e., a female corrections officer or a male nurse)
- Work/Family balance, or work as a stay at home mother or father
- LGBTQ identities at work
- Tacit skills and coping with boring or routinized work
- Racial and/or ethnic experiences and/or inequalities in the workplace
- Service work – issues involved with interacting with customers
- Blue collar work – women in blue collar jobs; devaluation of blue collar work
- Labor & union organizing or workplace resistance
- Immigration experiences
I have attached to this handout a basic description of interviewing strategies. Please refer to that as you construct your interview questions. You may write up specific interview questions to follow or you may want to have an outline of topics to cover. Either way, be sure to include questions that will allow you to explore the topic(s) you have chosen for this project.
Below I have provided a basic, suggested outline for how you should structure your paper.
