Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Minnesota, 1999
Areas of Research Interest:
Life Course; Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood; Education; Work and Family.
Current Research Interests:
My research interests are in the areas of work, family, and education across the life course, with particular focus on social psychological processes in adolescence and the transition to adulthood. A major portion of my research activities is focused on stability and change in work values-the importance people attach to various rewards of working. I am also interested in the historical rise in educational ambitions, the stability and outcomes of those ambitions over time, and processes of stratification in educational ambitions and attainment.
Selected Publications:
Crosnoe, Robert, and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson. 2011. “Research on Adolescence in the 21st Century.” Annual Review of Sociology 37:439-460.
Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick and Jeylan T. Mortimer. 2011. “Origins and Outcomes of Orientations toward Work.” Social Forces 89(4):1239-1260.
Reynolds, John, and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson. Forthcoming (Sept 2011). “Change in the Stratification of Educational Expectations and their Realization.” Social Forces.
Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick, and Maria Monserud. 2010. “Judgments about Work and the Features of Young Adults’ Jobs.” Work and Occupations 37:194-224.
Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick and Stefanie Mollborn. 2009. “Growing Up Faster, Feeling Older: Hardship in Childhood and Adolescence.” Social Psychology Quarterly 72:39-60.
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