Nina Bandelj, Ph.D., is Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.
is a sociologist, author and professor who studies money, and how culture, power and emotions influence investment, spending, debt, inequality, and ideas about the economy. Bandelj is Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.
She is an elected member of the honorary Sociological Research Association and has held fellowships from the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, the European University Institute in Florence, and the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. Bandelj is a faculty fellow at the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology and former longtime editor of Socio-Economic Review. She has been Vice President of the American Sociological Association, President of the international Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, and President of the Sociological Research Association. She also served as inaugural associate vice provost for faculty development at the University of California, Irvine. exposes the social pressures that lead us to treat children as investment projects and child-rearing as exhausting labor. Based on 120 in-depth interviews with parents, content analysis of more than a hundred parenting books, and analyses of quantitative datasets on economic lives of U.S. families, the book identifies the cultural and economic forces that drive parental overinvestment, and a dizzying array of products and platforms to turn children into human capital—from financial instruments to extracurricular programs to therapeutic parenting advice. And yet, the privatization of child-rearing and devotion of parents’ monies, emotions, and souls ultimately hurt the well-being of children, parents, and society. For exhausted parents and nonparents,If you are a parent who is constantly exhausted, remember you are locked into a system that turned children into emotional and financial investments. We need to find a way out.Self Tests are all about you. Are you outgoing or introverted? Are you a narcissist? Does perfectionism hold you back? Find out the answers to these questions and more with Psychology Today.
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