{"id":3109,"date":"2014-09-20T16:31:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T16:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/sociology-professor-kolb-authors-book-about-domestic-violence\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:44:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:44:30","slug":"sociology-professor-kolb-authors-book-about-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/sociology-professor-kolb-authors-book-about-domestic-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociology Professor Kolb authors book about domestic violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/moral-wages-sized.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14149 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/moral-wages-sized-medium.jpg\" alt=\"moral wages sized\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><\/a>Furman University Sociology professor Kenneth H. Kolb, PhD, has authored a new book about domestic violence, victim advocacy and counseling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Moral Wages: The Emotional Dilemmas of Victim Advocacy and Counseling\u201d is published by University of California Press.<\/p>\n<p>UC Press describes \u201cMoral Wages\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoral Wages\u201d\u00a0offers the reader a vivid depiction of what it is like to work inside an agency that assists victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Based on more than a year of fieldwork by a man in a setting many presume to be hostile to men, this ethnographic account is unlike most research on the topic of violence against women. Instead of focusing on the victims or perpetrators of abuse,\u00a0\u201cMoral Wages\u201d\u00a0focuses exclusively on the service providers in the middle. It shows how victim advocates and counselors\u2013who don&#8217;t enjoy extrinsic benefits like pay, power, and prestige\u2013are sustained by a different kind of compensation. As long as they can overcome a number of workplace dilemmas, they earn a special type of emotional reward reserved for those who help others in need: moral wages. As their struggles mount, though, it becomes clear that their jobs often put them in impossible situations\u2013requiring them to aid and feel for vulnerable clients, yet giving them few and feeble tools to combat a persistent\u00a0social problem.<\/p>\n<p>A resident of Greenville, Dr. Kolb joined the Furman faculty in 2008. His current research project addresses how residents of \u201cfood desert\u201d communities Southernside and West Greenville obtain fresh fruits and vegetables. Kolb holds a bachelor\u2019s from Bates College, and master\u2019s and doctorate degrees from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about \u201cMoral Wages,\u201d follow this <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520282728\">link<\/a><\/i>, or contact Furman\u2019s News and Media Relations office at (864) 294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Sociology professor Kenneth H. Kolb, PhD, has authored a new book about domestic violence, victim advocacy and counseling. <em>Moral Wages: The Emotional Dilemmas of Victim Advocacy and Counseling<\/em> is published by University of California Press.\u00a0Dr. Kolb, who joined the faculty in 2008, holds a bachelor\u2019s from Bates College, and master\u2019s and doctorate degrees from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":13679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-sociology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}