President Donald Trump is joined by coal miners at the White House on April 8, 2025. Credit: Sipa USA/AP Arlie Hochschild, an award-winning author and sociologist, has spent years talking with people ...

This story is part of our series Asking Appalachia: Coal, Trump and the politics of eastern Kentucky. Find part one here. In her new book, author and sociologist Arlie Hochschild goes to the heart of ...

For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we’ve ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens, Arlie Russell Hochschild asks, ...

In her 2016 book Strangers in Their Own Land, Berkeley sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild explored a seeming paradox. Why is it, she asked, that many people living near polluting petrochemical ...

Podiumsdiskussion How did the US get into this mess? Arlie Russel Hochschild im Gespräch. Arlie Hochschild`s latest book, „Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame and the Rise of the Right f ...

Emotional labor. I first came upon this term in my sociology of work class as we were delving into the more complex, yet often unspoken, issues that many employees face in the modern workplace. I was ...

Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of "Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning in the American Right," will speak at 1 p.m. Wednesday (Jan. 18) at the University of New Orleans' ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Trump was not the focus of Hochschild’s research, but she soon discovered that he was ...

Shame is driving the rightward turn in economically depressed rural areas, according to this piercing analysis. Hochschild, a sociologist at UC Berkeley, revisits the themes of Strangers in Their Own ...