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Linda Burton, James B. Duke Professor of Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies
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Linda Burton
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Short Description of Research
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James B. Duke Professor of Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies
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255 Soc/Psych Building |
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(919) 660-5609 |
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919-660-5623 |
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Poverty
Intergenerational Families
Family Life Course Transitions
Neighborhood Context
Ethnographic Methods
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| My program of research is conceptually grounded in life course, developmental, and ecological perspectives and focuses on three themes concerning the lives of America's poorest urban, small town, and rural families: (1) intergenerational family structures, processes, and role transitions; (2) the meaning of context and place in the daily lives of families; and, (3) childhood adultification and the accelerated life course. My methodological approach to exploring these issues is comparative, longitudinal, and multi-method. The comparative dimension of my research comprises in-depth within group analysis of low income African American, White, and, Hispanic/Latino families, as well as systematic examinations of similarities and differences across groups. I employ longitudinal designs in my studies to identify distinct and often nuanced contextual and ethnic/racial features of development that shape the family structures, processes (e.g., intergenerational care-giving) and life course transitions (e.g., grandparenthood, marriage) families experience over time. I am principally an ethnographer, but integrate survey and geographic and spatial analysis in my work. I am currently one of six principal investigators involved in an multisite, multi-method collaborative study of the impact of welfare reform on families and children (Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study). I direct the ethnographic component of the Three-City Study and am also principal investigator of an ethnographic study of rural poverty and child development (The Family Life Project).
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Selected Publications/Recent
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- Burton, L.M., Childhood adultification in economically disadvantaged families: An ethnographic perspective,
Family Relations, vol. 56 no. 329-345 (2007).
- Roy, K. & Burton, L.M., Mothering through recruitment: Kinscription of non-residential fathers and father figures in low-income families,
Family Relations, vol. 56
(2007),
pp. 24-39.
- Burton, L.M. & Whitfield, K.E., Health, aging, and America's poor: Ethnographic insights on family co-morbidity and cumulative disadvantage,
in Aging, globalization and inequality: The new critical gerontology, edited by J. Baars, D. Dannefer, C. Phillipson, & A. Walker
(2006), NY: Baywood.
- Cherlin, A., Burton, L.M., Hurt, T., & Purvin, D., The influence of physical and sexual abuse on marriage and cohabitation,
American Sociological Review, vol. 69 (2004),
pp. 768-789.
- Burton, L.M., Winn, D.M., Stevenson, H., & Lawson Clark, S., Working with African American clients: Considering the homeplace in counseling and therapy practices,
Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy, vol. 30 no. 4 (2004),
pp. 397-410.
- Burton, L. M.. & Jarrett, R. L., In the mix, yet on the margins: The place of family in urban neighborhood and child development research,
Journal of Marriage and the Family, vol. 62 (2000),
pp. 1114-1135.
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Course Descriptions
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- SOCIOL 150.01, CHANGING AMERICAN FAMILY
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Sociology
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