Linda Burton, James B. Duke Professor of Sociology and Sociology

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Office Location:	302 Towerview Road, Durham, NC 27708
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Education:

MA Sociology, University of Southern California 1982

Specialties:

Family Structure
Poverty and Inequality
Child Development

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Brady, D. & Burton, L.M. (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the social science of poverty (in press), Oxford University Press.
2. W. Welsh & Burton, L.M., Home, heart, and being Latina: Housing and intimate relationship power among low-income Mexican mothers, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (in press).
3. R. Garrett-Peters & L.M. Burton, Reframing marriage and marital delay among low-income mothers: An interactionist perspective, Journal of Family Theory and Review (2015), pp. 242-264.
4. Burton, LM, Seeking Romance in the Crosshairs of Multiple-Partner Fertility: Ethnographic Insights on Low-Income Urban and Rural Mothers, edited by Carlson, MJ; Meyer, DR, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 654 no. 1 (January, 2014), pp. 185-212, SAGE Publications [doi] [abs].
5. Burton, LM; Stack, CB, “Breakfast at Elmo’s”: Adolescent boys and disruptive politics in the kinscripts narrative, in Open to Disruption: Time and Craft in the Practice of Slow Sociology, edited by A.Garey, R. Hertz, & M. Nelson (January, 2014), pp. 174-191, Vanderbilt University Press.

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