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MARIAL CENTER COLLOQUIUM Arlene Skolnick (Emeritus, Institute of Human Development, University of California in Berkeley, Consultant to the Families and Work Institute, Visiting Scholar, New York University) Domestic Manners of the Americans: Etiquette Books and the Remaking of Middle Class Morality Wednesday, April 12, 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m Dr. Skolnick will argue that Americans are not nearly as polarized on “family values” as they have been portrayed in the media since the 2004 election. Rather, as she will show, there is strong evidence that a quiet majority of Americans have long been ready to reconcile traditional family norms with more modern, post-industrial values such as gender equality and tolerance for diversity. Public opinion data reveals this new morality along with a good deal of ambivalence and anxiety about family and gender change. But the voice of the mainstream moderate majority is rarely heard. This talk will focus on how recent editions of Emily Post and other etiquette books articulate and defend the post-industrial shift in mainstream family ideologies and practices. In addition, Dr. Skolnick will elaborate on and advance a model of family change by comparing today’s cultural upheavals with earlier periods of deep socio-economic transformation. Dr. Skolnick examines the impact of external factors such as social and economic change on family life and individual development across the life course. She has taken part in several interdisciplinary projects dealing with law and child and family policy and has published several books on marriage and family, including Family in Transition (with Jerome Skolnick), Embattled Paradise: The American Family in an Age of Uncertainty , and All Our Families: New Policies for a New Century (with Mary Ann Mason and Stephen D. Sugarman). She is currently at work on a book entitled The Unfinished Family: Love and Work in a New America.
DIRECTIONS TO THE MARIAL CENTER The MARIAL Center is located on the 4th floor of the main building of Emory's Briarcliff Campus, 1256 Briarcliff Road. There is ample parking close to the building. Alternatively, you may take the Emory shuttle (Route A). The Emory shuttle (Route A) provides transportation from the main campus to the MARIAL Center every 20 minutes (a 5-10 minute ride). For the shortest travel time, board the shuttle in front of the B. Jones Center or at the corner of Dowman and Fishburne (across from Glenn Memorial) at approximately 4, 24, and 44 minutes after each hour. A complete schedule and the route map are available on the web at http://www.epcs.emory.edu/AltTransp/route-a.htm Please tell the receptionist at the front window
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