Rosanna Hertz is the 1919 Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family (Oxford Press, 2008). She is also the author or co-author of five edited collections which focus on the use of qualitative methods including Open to Disruption: Time and Craft in the Practice of Slow Sociology (Vanderbilt University, 2015) with Anita Ilta Garey and Margaret K. Nelson.

• PART ONE: PUBLIC PLACESNot Even a Day in the Life - Candace WestThe Nursing Home - Lillian B RubinEssaying the Personal - Sherryl KleinmanMaking Sociological Stories StickEnough Already! The Pervasiveness of Warnings in Everyday Life - Shulamit ReinharzEarn as You Learn - Clinton R SandersConnections between Doing Qualitative Work and Living Daily LifeReal Life Sexual Harassment - Christine L WilliamsPART TWO: FAMILY SPACESA Conversation about Parenting - Naomi Gerstel and Robert ZussmanOn the (Re)Production of Social Class - Susan E BellLiving In, With, and Beyond Elementary SchoolThe Personal, the Sociological, and the Intersection of the Two - Lynne Davidman"Are We Alone?" - Marjorie L DeVaultFive Minutes - Peter K ManningPART THREE: INTERIOR SPACESThe Pleasure of Slowness - David SilvermanIt′s Boring - Peter ConradNotes on the Meaning of Boredom in Everyday LifeMemory and the Practices of Commitment - Barry SchwartzPerforming Montana - Norman K DenzinA Personal Passage - Pepper SchwartzIdentity Aquisition and Affinity GroupsStanding on the Threshold and Tripping - Arlene Kaplan DanielsAwkwardness in Becoming a Field-WorkerMy Life with Xena and Billy - Joshua GamsonPART FOUR: WORKPLACESAffirmative Action and Me - Sharon M CollinsMaking Sense and Making a Difference - Derral CheatwoodMurder and College AdministrationFeeling at Home at Work - Barrie Thorne and Arlie Russell HochschildLife in Academic DepartmentsOn the Nonnegotiable in Sociological Life - Robert DingwallIs There a Philosopher in the House? - Jonathan D MorenoThe Two Faces of Professional Discretion - Allan SchnaibergA Vision from the Client′s BedQualitative Sociology and Good Journalism as Demystifiers - Paul M HirschTalks between Teachers - Shirah W Hecht and Howard S Becker

Rosanna Hertz is the 1919 Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family (Oxford Press, 2008). She is also the author or co-author of five edited collections which focus on the use of qualitative methods including Open to Disruption: Time and Craft in the Practice of Slow Sociology (Vanderbilt University, 2015) with Anita Ilta Garey and Margaret K. Nelson.

• PART ONE: PUBLIC PLACESNot Even a Day in the Life - Candace WestThe Nursing Home - Lillian B RubinEssaying the Personal - Sherryl KleinmanMaking Sociological Stories StickEnough Already! The Pervasiveness of Warnings in Everyday Life - Shulamit ReinharzEarn as You Learn - Clinton R SandersConnections between Doing Qualitative Work and Living Daily LifeReal Life Sexual Harassment - Christine L WilliamsPART TWO: FAMILY SPACESA Conversation about Parenting - Naomi Gerstel and Robert ZussmanOn the (Re)Production of Social Class - Susan E BellLiving In, With, and Beyond Elementary SchoolThe Personal, the Sociological, and the Intersection of the Two - Lynne Davidman"Are We Alone?" - Marjorie L DeVaultFive Minutes - Peter K ManningPART THREE: INTERIOR SPACESThe Pleasure of Slowness - David SilvermanIt′s Boring - Peter ConradNotes on the Meaning of Boredom in Everyday LifeMemory and the Practices of Commitment - Barry SchwartzPerforming Montana - Norman K DenzinA Personal Passage - Pepper SchwartzIdentity Aquisition and Affinity GroupsStanding on the Threshold and Tripping - Arlene Kaplan DanielsAwkwardness in Becoming a Field-WorkerMy Life with Xena and Billy - Joshua GamsonPART FOUR: WORKPLACESAffirmative Action and Me - Sharon M CollinsMaking Sense and Making a Difference - Derral CheatwoodMurder and College AdministrationFeeling at Home at Work - Barrie Thorne and Arlie Russell HochschildLife in Academic DepartmentsOn the Nonnegotiable in Sociological Life - Robert DingwallIs There a Philosopher in the House? - Jonathan D MorenoThe Two Faces of Professional Discretion - Allan SchnaibergA Vision from the Client′s BedQualitative Sociology and Good Journalism as Demystifiers - Paul M HirschTalks between Teachers - Shirah W Hecht and Howard S Becker