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Originally published in 1989, this cross-national study
investigates the role and pattern of family life in fourteen
countries in contemporary Europe. Providing a wealth of information
on European families, it is a key source for anyone wishing to
understand the changes in the family at that time. The contributors
argue that, far from withering away, the family remained a very
important social unit which continued to have considerable
influence on other social institutions such as the state and the
labour market. The central theme is the interrelation between
changes in production and working life on one hand, and changes in
family life and reproduction on the other. The contributors focus
on the pressures and contradictions produced by the division of
functions between family and work, and on problems which have
arisen as a consequence of the sometimes incompatible and even
conflicting demands of the two institutions. They show that the
evolution of the nuclear family model in Europe had led to a great
diversity of family patterns, and conclude that the family in
modern European societies still had a contribution to make which no
other institution could provide.
In this volume, guest editor Qvortrup brings together contributions
representing structural, historical, and comparative perspectives
on the study of children and youth. Here, childhood is conceived as
a structural feature of society, subject to the stable and changing
forces of the larger social context, and comparable across time and
cultures. Such perspectives have been relatively under-represented
in the "New Sociology of Childhood," which has tended both to
stress children's agency, and to favour ethnographic methods of
inquiry. The series editors are pleased to expand and enliven the
foci of Sociological Studies of Children and Youth with this volume
edited by the internationally renowned Danish Sociologist Jens
Qvortrup, the first non-U.S. editor in the series' history.
In this volume, guest editor Qvortrup brings together contributions
representing structural, historical, and comparative perspectives
on the study of children and youth. Here, childhood is conceived as
a structural feature of society, subject to the stable and changing
forces of the larger social context, and comparable across time and
cultures. Such perspectives have been relatively under-represented
in the "New Sociology of Childhood," which has tended both to
stress children's agency, and to favour ethnographic methods of
inquiry. The series editors are pleased to expand and enliven the
foci of Sociological Studies of Children and Youth with this volume
edited by the internationally renowned Danish Sociologist Jens
Qvortrup, the first non-U.S. editor in the series' history.
So far, research on the welfare state has usually neglected
children and childhood. In the rare attempts to include childhood
in welfare state analysis, too much emphasis was placed on children
as future adults. However, only a full recognition of children as
human beings and citizens here and now are compatible with new
social studies of childhood as well as children's rights
discourses. Thus the conceptual integration of children and
childhood in the welfare state is still an open question. This book
closes the gap by offering the concept of generational order as
theoretical tool to both childhood and welfare state research. In
analogy to gender analysis, this concept is an adequate tool in
providing visibility to the adult bias of traditional welfare state
theories and practices. The book includes contributors from ten
predominantly European countries, exploring issues of children's
social and economic welfare, such as child poverty in a
theoretical, methodological, and practical perspective. Together
with the companion volume below Flexible Childhood, also by the
University Press of Southern Denmark this book is the final result
of COST Action A19, Children's Welfare, which has been supported by
the European COST Framework.
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