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Linda Burton

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Linda Burton's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of Chicago
Masters Sociology University of Chicago
Bachelors Sociology Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Linda M. Burton is a sociologist who is the dean of Berkeley’s social welfare school. She previously held the title of James B. Duke Professor of Sociology and Director of the Sociology Department’s Undergraduate Honors Program at Duke University. She specializes in family structure, poverty and inequality, and child development.

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Linda Burton's Published Works

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Black grandparents rearing children of drug-addicted parents: stressors, outcomes, and social service needs. (1992) (435)
Teenage childbearing as an alternative life-course strategy in multigeneration black families (1990) (385)
Childhood Adultification in Economically Disadvantaged Families: A Conceptual Model* (2007) (334)
Mothers' and fathers' racial socialization in African American families: implications for youth. (2006) (325)
In the Mix, Yet on the Margins: The Place of Families in Urban Neighborhood and Child Development Research (2000) (310)
Critical Race Theories, Colorism, and the Decade's Research on Families of Color (2010) (308)
Geo-ethnography: Coupling Geographic Information Analysis Techniques with Ethnographic Methods in Urban Research (2005) (190)
Don’t Have No Time: Daily Rhythms and the Organization of Time for Low‐Income Families* (2004) (156)
Age norms, the timing of family role transitions, and intergenerational caregiving among aging African American women. (1996) (147)
The Intergenerational Family Roles of Aged Black Americans (1991) (146)
The Influence of Physical and Sexual Abuse on Marriage and Cohabitation (2004) (140)
Adolescent Substance Use: Preliminary Examinations of School and Neighborhood Context (1999) (139)
Inequality, Family Processes, and Health in the “New” Rural America (2013) (136)
The Oxford handbook of the social science of poverty (2016) (135)
Rethinking Teenage Childbearing: Is Sexual Abuse a Missing Link?. (1990) (106)
Dynamic dimensions of family structure in low-income African American families: Emergent themes in qualitative research. (1999) (100)
Mothering Through Recruitment: Kinscription of Nonresidential Fathers and Father Figures in Low-Income Families* (2007) (99)
Family ties: constructing family time in low-income families. (2005) (99)
Adult intergenerational relations : effects of societal change (1995) (94)
Operating within the Rules: Welfare Recipients' Experiences with Sanctions and Case Closings (2002) (91)
Social context and adolescence: Perspectives on development among inner-city African-American teens. (1995) (88)
The Characteristics of Families Remaining on Welfare. Working Paper. Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study. (2002) (84)
Romantic Unions in an Era of Uncertainty: A Post-Moynihan Perspective on African American Women and Marriage (2009) (79)
PROMISES THEY CAN KEEP: LOW-INCOME WOMEN'S ATTITUDES TOWARD MOTHERHOOD, MARRIAGE, AND DIVORCE. (2008) (78)
Fathers in the "hood": Insights from qualitative research on low-income, African-American men (2002) (75)
Grandparenthood, Life Context, and Family Development (1986) (73)
Maternal distress and parenting in the context of cumulative disadvantage. (2010) (71)
Communities, neighborhoods, and health : expanding the boundaries of place (2011) (68)
Childhood Poverty, Policy, and Practice (2007) (65)
The Role of Trust in Low-Income Mothers' Intimate Unions* (2009) (63)
Context and Surrogate Parenting Among Contemporary Grandparents (1994) (62)
Low-income mothers as "othermothers" to their romantic partners' children: women's coparenting in multiple partner fertility relationships. (2012) (58)
Reframing Theories for Understanding Race, Ethnicity, and Families (2009) (54)
Ethnography and the Meaning of Adolescence in High‐Risk Neighborhoods (1997) (51)
Mother-Grandmother Conflict, Negative Parenting, and Young Children's Social Development in Multigenerational Families (2012) (46)
Longitudinal Associations Between Maternal Work Stress, Negative Work-Family Spillover, and Depressive Symptoms W. Benjamin Goodman The Pennsylvania State University Ann C. CROUTER The Pennsylvania State University* The Family Life Project Key Investigators** (2015) (44)
Through the eyes of children: An ethnographic perspective on neighborhoods and child development. (1999) (41)
Bound by Children: Intermittent Cohabitation and Living Together Apart. (2011) (35)
Kinscripts: Reflections on Family, Generation, and Culture (2016) (34)
Combining ethnography and GIS technology to examine constructions of developmental opportunities in contexts of poverty and disability. (2005) (31)
2. Contemporary and Emerging Theories in Studying Families (2005) (31)
Morality, Identity, and Mental Health in Rural Ghettos (2011) (28)
Conscripting kin: reflections on family generation and culture. (1993) (28)
“Weathering” Towards Poorer Health in Later Life: Co-morbidity in Urban Low-income Families (2003) (24)
Working with African American clients: considering the "homeplace" in marriage and family therapy practices. (2004) (23)
Tenuous Ties: The Nature and Costs of Kin Support among Low-income Rural Black Mothers (2016) (23)
Communities, Neighborhoods, and Health (2011) (20)
Housing Dependence and Intimate Relationships in the Lives of Low-Income Puerto Rican Mothers (2011) (20)
Childhood Illness, Family Comorbidity, and Cumulative Disadvantage (2010) (20)
Families and Aging (1993) (19)
The Characteristics of Families Remaining on Welfare. Policy Brief. Welfare, Children & Families: A Three-City Study. (2002) (18)
Rethinking Family Development: Critical Conceptual Issues in the Study of Diverse Groups (1996) (18)
Health, Aging, and America's Poor: Ethnographic Insights on Family Co-Morbidity and Cumulative Disadvantage (2006) (16)
Seeking Romance in the Crosshairs of Multiple-Partner Fertility (2014) (13)
Longitudinal Ethnography: Uncovering Domestic Abuse in Low-Income Women's Lives (2015) (13)
Religion and Reproduction in Philippine Society: A New Test of the Minority-Group Status Hypothesis (1987) (13)
Homeplace and Housing in the Lives of Low-Income Urban (2006) (12)
Inequality and Opportunity: The Role of Exclusion, Social Capital, and Generic Social Processes in Upward Mobility (2015) (12)
Health Disparities Among Men from Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations (2004) (12)
Neighborhood rhythms and the social activities of adolescent mothers. (1998) (12)
Reframing Marriage and Marital Delay Among Low-Income Mothers: An Interactionist Perspective (2015) (11)
Rethinking family structure and single parenthood: Implications for future studies of African-American families and children. (2001) (10)
COVID-19: Health disparities and social determinants of health (2020) (8)
Challenges and Rewards: African American Grandparents as Surrogate Parents* (2019) (7)
More Than Good Quotations (2009) (7)
"More Than Good Quotations:" How Ethnography Informs Knowledge on Adolescent Development and Context (2009) (6)
Settlement and Burial Sites at Suatan, Butuan City: A Preliminary Report (1977) (5)
The Timing of Childbearing, Family Structure, and the Role Responsibilities of Aging Black Women (2014) (4)
Creating Culturally Relevant Ways of Thinking about Diversity and Aging: Theoretical Challenges for the Twenty-First Century (2019) (4)
Home, Heart, and Being Latina (2016) (3)
"Show Me You Can Be a Father:" Maternal Monitoring and Recruitment of Fathers for Involvement in Low-Income Families (2009) (2)
Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society (2014) (2)
The Difference Disability Makes: Managing Childhood Disability, Poverty, and Work (2006) (2)
Diversity, Disparities, and Inequalities in Aging: Implications for Policy (2006) (2)
Life, Death, and Resurrections (2016) (1)
Chapter 7 Negotiating Gender and Power: How Some Poor Mothers Employ Economic Survival Strategies After Welfare Reform (2018) (1)
Families, Youth, and Children's Well Being (1998) (1)
Mothers' and Fathers' Mental State Talk: Ethnicity, Partner Talk, and Sensitivity (2020) (1)
Chapter 4 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: SocioEconomic (IM)Mobility Among Low-Income Mothers of Children with Disabilities (2018) (1)
Observed Maternal Parenting Behaviors Measure (2016) (0)
From the Editor (1999) (0)
Early Parenting and Intergenerational Family Relationships Within African American Families (2018) (0)
CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES 06-15 (2006) (0)
[Thematics of the multi-generation family: an example of a 6- and 7-generation family]. (1987) (0)
Neighborhood rhythms and the social activities of adolescent mothers. (1998) (0)
Boys and Men in African American Families (2016) (0)
Repairing the Breach Revisited: A Focus on Families and Black Males (2016) (0)
Intergenerational Linkages: Hidden Connections in American Society.@@@Adult Intergenerational Relations: Effects of Social Change. (1996) (0)
Temporal Context and the Caregiver Role: Perspectives from Ethnographic Studies of Multigeneration African-American Families (2019) (0)
The I Influence o of P Physical a and S Sexual A Abuse on M Marriage a and C Cohabitation (2004) (0)
Dissertation: "Branded: How Mental Disorder Labels Alter Task Performance in Perception and Reality." (2013) (0)

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