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Ida H Simpson, Professor Emerita

Ida H Simpson
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Ida H Simpson
Professor Emerita
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Office: 253 Soc-Psych
Phone: (919) 660-5619, (919) 660-5614
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Fax: (919) 660-5623
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Areas of Interest: 
Occupations/Professions,
Work and Labor Markets,
Family
 
I received my B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from the University of Alabama and my Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina in 1955. I taught at William and Mary, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Illinois, Chicago before joining the Duke Faculty in 1967. My main research interests are occupations and occupational changes, the interrelations of family and work, and the changing status of children. I have held offices in the American Sociological Association, am past President of the Southern Sociological Society, and was Editor of Contemporary Sociology. I teach in the Twentieth Century America Program. I also teach Childhood in Social Perspective (SOC 117) and The American Family (SOC 150). 
  Selected Publications/Recent Research:
 
  • With Richard L. Simpson and Rory McVeigh, “Push, pull constraint, and part-time farming", Rural Sociology (Submitted, 2002) (The original submission used 1988 data. We were asked to update it. The update has been completed and the resubmission awaits a response from co-author, Rory McVeigh.).
  • Deviance in the Workplace, Research in the Sociology of Work, edited by edited with commentary, with Richard L. Simpson, vol. 8 (1999), Greenwich Connecticut: JAI Press.
  • “Historical Patterns of Workplace Organization: From Mechanical to Electronic Control and Beyond,”, Current Sociology, vol. 47 (1999), pp. 47-75.
  • Research in the Sociology of Work, edited by (edited with commentary, with Richard L. Simpson), The Meaning of Work, vol. 5 (1995), Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press.
  • with John Wilson and Richard Landerman, “Status variation on farms: Effects of crop, machinery, and off-farm work”, Rural Sociology, vol. 59 (1994), pp. 136-153.
 
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