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Welcome to the webpage for Vanderbilt University's Sociology of Families and Households class taught by Professor Richard Pitt

THIS WEEK IN SOCIOLOGY 230

This Week's Topic? Yea!  We start the group presentations this week.  Whoopie!!

Television Family Analysis There will be no television analysis this week.

Interesting Family Fact Marital status frequently has different implications for women and men job-seekers.  Schwartz (1992) found that married women graduates of the prestigious Wharton School of Business took off their wedding rings before job interviews while unmarried men who were graduates BORROWED wedding rings prior to their interviews.  For women, a wedding ring raises the prospect of an employee whose commitment to career will likely be compromised by motherhood, while a wedding ring represents maturity and responsibility for men.