@article{garrett-peters_2009, title={"If I Don't Have to Work Anymore, Who Am I?": Job Loss and Collaborative Self-Concept Repair}, volume={38}, ISSN={["1552-5414"]}, DOI={10.1177/0891241609342104}, abstractNote={Previous research on unemployment among managers and professionals has documented the experience of job loss as stressful because of both economic strain and the damage it does to valued identities and self-conceptions. Little research, however, has examined the processes through which displaced workers collectively attempt to repair this damage. Data from participant observation in four support groups, plus intensive interviews with twenty-two group members, are used to develop an analysis of the self-concept repair strategies used by these relatively privileged workers. Five main strategies are identified: (1) redefining the meaning of unemployment, (2) realizing accomplishment, (3) restructuring time, (4) forming accountability partnerships, and (5) helping others.These findings suggest that our understandings of how people cope with stressful life events need to take into account the social capital available to different groups. A second implication concerns our understanding of how the self-concept operates as a source of motivation.}, number={5}, journal={JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHY}, author={Garrett-Peters, Raymond}, year={2009}, month={Oct}, pages={547–583} }
 @article{cherlin_cross-barnet_burton_garrett-peters_2008, title={Promises They Can Keep: Low-Income Women's Attitudes Toward Motherhood, Marriage, and Divorce}, volume={70}, ISSN={["1741-3737"]}, DOI={10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00536.x}, abstractNote={Using survey data on low-income mothers in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio (n = 1,722) supplemented with ethnographic data, we test 3 propositions regarding mothers' attitudes toward childbearing, marriage, and divorce. These are drawn from Edin & Kefalas (2005) but have also arisen in other recent studies. We find strong support for the proposition that childbearing outside of marriage carries little stigma, limited support for the proposition that women prefer to have children well before marrying, and almost no support for the proposition that women hesitate to marry because they fear divorce. We suggest that mothers' attitudes and preferences in these 3 domains do not support the long delay between childbearing and marriage that has been noted in the literature. Throughout, we are able to study attitudes among several Hispanic groups as well as among African Americans and non-Hispanic Whites.}, number={4}, journal={JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY}, author={Cherlin, Andrew and Cross-Barnet, Caitlin and Burton, Linda M. and Garrett-Peters, Raymond}, year={2008}, month={Nov}, pages={919–933} }