Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting: Interview with Nina Bandelj, PhD
About this episode
Nina Bandelj discusses her book on the emotional economy of modern parenting and the issues of parental burnout and intensive parenting.
Nina Bandelj is Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and past president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. Today we talked about her new book Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting Dr Bandelj looks at the problem of parental burnout and "intensive parenting" from the perspective of an economic sociologist. She illustrates how we can learn a lot about the social and cultural forces effecting American parents by "following the money". She puts into a broader perspective many of the concerns about "intensive parenting" that Meredith Elkins, PhD discussed in an earlier podcast this year. Dr Bandelj sociological perspective will helps parents appreciate some of the cultural and social forces that are effecting their everyday parenting https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/overinvested
People in this episode
Host: Edward Plimpton
Guest: Nina Bandelj
Topics covered
- parental burnout
- intensive parenting
- economic sociology
- cultural forces
- social forces
Keywords
- parental burnout
- intensive parenting
- economic sociology
- cultural forces
- social forces
- Nina Bandelj
- Overinvested
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: University of California, Irvine, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
Books & works: Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting
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