Editors:
- Presents new approaches to how families are conceptualised and function
- Includes a range of empirical findings, based on both qualitative and quantitative research data, with a wide international perspective
- Brings together in one volume the latest European research on families
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life (PSFL)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Family Understandings
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Front Matter
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Family Across the Individual Life Course
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This volume provides readers with recent sociological approaches to family understanding, theorising and practices within the context of continuities and change, both across generations and during individual life courses. The contributors uniquely investigate the friction between persisting family needs and changing circumstances, between holding on to traditional family norms and adapting to fast-changing demands. Authors from nine countries develop and apply innovative theoretical and methodological approaches for a more differentiated description of European family lives at the beginning of the 21st century, and show that family sociology has achieved significant commonalities across national borders in Europe, thus helping our understanding of complex family realities.
The book will be essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in family and intimate life, family sociology and policy, sociology and gender studies.
Reviews
“The elegant combination of qualitative and quantitative methods that several authors put forward reflects the growing trend in sociological research that aims to deepen as well as broaden sociological knowledge.” (Ulla Björnberg, Gothenburg University, Sweden)
“This collection will be a valuable resource for all family scholars.” (Isabella Crespi, University of Macerata, Italy)
Editors and Affiliations
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Mykolas Romeris University , Vilnius, Lithuania
Vida Česnuitytė
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Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany
Detlev Lück
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University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Eric D. Widmer
About the editors
Vida Česnuitytė is Lecturer of Sociology and Social Policy and Head of the Sociological Research Laboratory at Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Detlev Lück is Senior Researcher at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Wiesbaden, Germany.
Eric D. Widmer is Professor of Family Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Family Continuity and Change
Book Subtitle: Contemporary European Perspectives
Editors: Vida Česnuitytė, Detlev Lück, Eric D. Widmer
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59028-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59027-5Published: 19 January 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59028-2Published: 12 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 346
Number of Illustrations: 53 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Family, European Culture