1. Introduction -- 2. Family structures and relationships -- 3. Families and welfare: public and private transfers -- 4. The extent and nature of lifetime gifts -- 5. The impacts of, and motivations for, lifetime gifts -- 6. Social norms on financial obligations within families -- 7. Public attitudes to different generations -- 8. Discussion: inter-generational gifts, family life and the role …
Introduction; Vida Česnuitytė, Eric D. Widmer, Detlev Lück -- PART I EXPLANATION OF FAMILY CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- 1 Approaches to the study of family life: Practices, context and narrative; Julia Brannen -- 2. Family salience across nations: Configurations of morphological conditions; Eric D. Widmer, Olga Ganjour -- 3 Cultural conceptions of family as inhibitors of change in family lives: …
Introduction: Setting out on a Journey -- 1. Royal Dynasties -- 2. Noble Dynasties -- 3. Entrepreneurial Dynasties -- 4. The Learned -- 5. Artists -- 6. Statuses on the Move -- 7. Afterthoughts.This book takes a novel approach to family, exploring in detail how status is inherited and maintained within families; the process of upward social mobility; and how the roots of social decline start wi…
Open AccessThis book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational experiences are connected, what is continued, what triggers gradual or abrupt changes between generations - and between women and men within these generations. The b…
Introduction -- Part 1: The significance of care records -- 1. Making sense of a childhood in care -- 2. Making sense of care records -- 3. The impact on care-leavers of information in their records -- Part 2: Accessing records -- 4. Helping care-leavers to find their records -- 5. Supporting care-leavers to receive their records -- 6. Facilitating care-leavers’ access to other sources of inf…
I. Child Maltreatment and Family Processes -- The Web of Violence: The Role of Families in Vulnerability & Protection across the Span of Childhood -- Creating a Safe Haven: The Complicated Nature of Social Support in Fostering Resilience among Survivors of Child Maltreatment -- "Why didn't you tell?" Helping Families and Children Weather the Process of a Sexual Abuse Disclosure -- A Population-…
1. Introduction -- 2. The Generational and the Gender Contract -- 3. Crafting age-specific national accounts: National Transfer Accounts data and methods for Italy -- 4. Age, Economy and Welfare. National Transfer Accounts results for Italy -- 5. Women Work, Time Transfers and Informal welfare -- 6. Concluding Remarks.This book examines economic transfers across generations and genders from a E…
1. ‘It would be Better to talk about Death’ -- 2. Improper or Proper conversations? ‘Chatting death stuff’ -- 3. Death: 'It's sexy and stuff' -- 4. Letting Death out of the Box -- 5.‘All Angels are Massive Pissheads’ -- 6. Conclusion. ‘We’re OK with Death’.This book challenges adult assumptions that young-people do not, cannot and should not think about death. The author uses …
Transnational Family Life -- Urban Sociology -- European Sociology.The authors focus on families who organize their lives in transnational social spaces within and at the outer borders of Europe, to offer a new perspective on transnational family life and to advance the knowledge on borders drawn by social inequality, discrimination and political exclusion. They also discuss social mobility as …
Chapter 1: Fathers on Leave Alone: Setting the Scene: Margaret O’Brien and Karin Wall -- Chapter 2: The Ethics of Care and the Radical Potential of Fathers ‘Home Alone on Leave’: Care as Practice, Relational Ontology, and Social Justice: Andrea Doucet -- Chapter 3: Fathers on Leave Alone in Norway: Changes and Continuities: Elin Kvande and Berit Brandth -- Chapter 4: Fathers on Leave …