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Linda Burton, James B. Duke Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow of Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
Linda Burton
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James B. Duke Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow of Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
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302 Towerview Road, Durham, NC 27708 |
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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 was 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 directed the ethnographic component of the Three-City Study and was also principal investigator of an ethnographic study of rural poverty and child development (The Family Life Project).
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Brady, D. & Burton, L.M. (Eds.) (2013) . The Oxford handbook of the social science of poverty N.Y. Oxford University Press
W. Welsh & Burton, L.M. (2016) . Home, heart, and being Latina: Housing and intimate relationship power among low-income Mexican mothers Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
R. Garrett-Peters & L.M. Burton (2015) . Reframing marriage and marital delay among low-income mothers: An interactionist perspective Journal of Family Theory and Review , 242-264
Burton, LM (2014) . Seeking Romance in the Crosshairs of Multiple-Partner Fertility: Ethnographic Insights on Low-Income Urban and Rural Mothers The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Carlson, MJ; Meyer, DR. , Vol. 654, No. 1, SAGE Publications , 185-212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716214530831 [https://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Sociology/faculty/burton/publications/255324]
Burton, LM; Stack, CB (2014) . “Breakfast at Elmo’s”: Adolescent boys and disruptive politics in the kinscripts narrative A.Garey, R. Hertz, & M. Nelson. Nashville, TN Vanderbilt University Press , 174-191
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Sociology
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