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Exploring how family life has radically changed in recent decades,
this comprehensive Research Handbook tracks the latest developments
and trends in scholarly work on the family. With a particular focus
on the European context, it addresses current debates and offers
insights into key topics including: the division of housework,
family forms and living arrangements, intergenerational
relationships, partner choice, divorce and fertility behaviour.
Bringing together contributions from leading family sociologists,
the Research Handbook examines important questions: have family
patterns across different countries become more similar, or have
differences between countries and social groups increased over
time? How diverse are family forms across different countries? How
do conventional theories explain these patterns? And what are the
major innovations in theorising and describing family behaviour? In
order to resolve these key points, the chapters provide an overview
of past and present developments in scholarly work on European
families. They also present concise overviews of theories, methods,
critical debates, empirical findings and pathways for future
research. Its analysis of important areas of research in the field
will make this Research Handbook a valuable resource for scholars
and students of sociology, demography, and family and gender
policy. It will also be beneficial for policy experts in these
fields.
Based on the German case, this open access book highlights the
increasing flows of migration and the internationalisation of
individual life courses. It analyses the experiences of migration
across four central domains - employment and income, partners and
families, health and wellbeing, as well as friends and social
participation - which potentially have far-reaching consequences
for social inequalities and life chances. The book showcases
results from an innovative probability sample that is
representative of German emigrants who recently moved abroad and
remigrants who recently returned from abroad and compares their
international experiences with the sedentary population in Germany.
Stays abroad, whether temporary or permanently, have become the new
normal for increasing numbers of people from highly developed
welfare states. Unnoticed from mainstream migration studies, these
countries are today not only major immigration countries but also
important sources of international mobility. By providing an
empirically founded prism of the global lives of German migrants,
this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers of
migration, social inequality, and the life course and provides
practitioners with insights into these regularly overlooked aspects
of international migration.
Based on the German case, this open access book highlights the
increasing flows of migration and the internationalisation of
individual life courses. It analyses the experiences of migration
across four central domains - employment and income, partners and
families, health and wellbeing, as well as friends and social
participation - which potentially have far-reaching consequences
for social inequalities and life chances. The book showcases
results from an innovative probability sample that is
representative of German emigrants who recently moved abroad and
remigrants who recently returned from abroad and compares their
international experiences with the sedentary population in Germany.
Stays abroad, whether temporary or permanently, have become the new
normal for increasing numbers of people from highly developed
welfare states. Unnoticed from mainstream migration studies, these
countries are today not only major immigration countries but also
important sources of international mobility. By providing an
empirically founded prism of the global lives of German migrants,
this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers of
migration, social inequality, and the life course and provides
practitioners with insights into these regularly overlooked aspects
of international migration.
Korea and Germany are commonly described as emblematic examples of
divided nations. But while Korea is still divided Germany has gone
through a peaceful unification. The book offers a unique
comparative study on the demographic change in these divided
countries. It also investigates the developments after Germany's
unification. Based on this demographic insights of a merged society
it asks about their use and limits for a possible Korean scenario
of reunification.
Job-related spatial mobility is a subject of great importance in
Europe. But how mobile are Europeans? What are the consequences of
professional mobility for quality of life, family life, and social
relationships? For the first time, these questions are analyzed on
the basis of the findings of a large-scale European survey. The
contributions in Volume I are directed at the diversity and the
extent of mobility in six European countries - Germany, Spain,
France, Poland, Switzerland, and Belgium. In Volume II (due early
in 2009), the causes and determinants of job mobility and their
individual and social consequences are analyzed in cross-national
comparisons.
Job-related spatial mobility is a subject of great importance in
Europe. But how mobile are the Europeans? What are the consequences
of professional mobility for quality of life, family life, and
social relationships? For the first time, these questions are
analyzed on the basis of the data of a large-scale European survey.
This volume analyzes the causes and determinants of job mobility
and the individual and societal consequences in cross-national
comparison. Contents include: Theoretical Framework *
Methodological Issues * Historical Perspective * Phenomenology of
Mobile Living * The Process of Becoming Mobile * Family Life and
Job Mobility * Job Careers and Job Mobility * Social Integration
and Job Mobility * Job Mobility and Quality of Life * Advantages
and Disadvantages of Being Mobile * Mobility Culture * Motility *
Life Course Perspective * Gender and Job Mobility * Social Class
and Job Mobility * Support and Coping Strategies * Recommendations
for Politics and Economy * Job Mobility in Europe.
Die AutorInnen des Bandes analysieren Konsum aus der Perspektive
der Soziologie und geben einen Uberblick uber den aktuellen Stand
der soziologischen Diskussion und die historische Entwicklung der
Konsumforschung. Daruber hinaus wird das Themengebiet
interdisziplinar geoffnet. Konsum und privater Verbrauch werden
ebenso aus der Sicht der Mikro- und Makrookonomie, der Psychologie,
der Haushaltswissenschaft, der Marktforschung, der Demographie und
der Sozialpolitik analysiert."
Wie bei der Verteilung von Familienformen im allgemeinen haben die
unter schiedlichen Gesellschaftssysteme der fruheren BRD und DDR
auch in Struktur und Leben nichtehelicher Lebensgemeinschaften ihre
Spuren hinter lassen. Dies gilt auch, wenn sich der Blick auf
nichteheliche Lebensgemein schaften mit Kindern richtet, eine
Lebensform, die in der DDR viel haufiger war als in der BRD. Gemass
diesen unterschiedlichen Traditionen sind in den alten
Bundeslandern Paare mit ein- oder beidseitiger
Scheidungserfahrungen haufiger und Partnerschaften lediger Eltern
seltener als in den neuen Bundes landern. Ebenfalls auf
DDR-Tradition beruht der hohere Anteil von nichtehe lichen
Lebensgemeinschaften in einem gemeinsamen Haushalt. Unter die
Rubrik der Ost-West-Unterschiede fallen auch folgende Befunde: In
den neuen Bundeslandern liegt der Anteil der haufiger als einmal
monatlichen Kontakte insgesamt deutlich niedriger als in den alten
Bun deslandern; ob dies mit dem DDR-spezifischen Charakter
nichtehelicher Lebensgemeinschaften zusammenhangt, als
"nichteheliche Familien gemeinschaften" zu fungieren, erscheint
nicht ausgeschlossen, bedarf aber weiterer Aufklarung. Der Kontakt
ehelich geborener Kinder zum anderswo wohnenden ge schiedenen oder
getrenntlebenden Vater ist in den alten Bundeslandern intensiver
als der Kontakt nichtehelich geborener Kinder zu ihrem zur Zeit der
Geburt mit der Mutter nicht verheirateten Vater ausser Haus.
"Kindorientierung" der Eheschliessung in den alten Bundeslandern
geht demnach einher mit einer verbreiteten Indifferenz
nichtehelicher Partner gegenuber ihren Kindern. In den neuen
Bundeslandern ist dieses Gefalle kaum zu spuren."
In diesem Sammelband erortern namhafte Fachleute aus verschiedenen
Wissenschaftsdisziplinen den Wandel und die aktuelle
gesellschaftliche Situation von Familie. In 25 Einzelbeitragen
werden anhand theoretischer Uberlegungen und neuester empirischer
Forschungsergebnisse zentrale Fragen zur Institution Familie
zwischen gesellschaftlicher Pragung und individueller Gestaltung
diskutiert: Themen sind die Formen, das Ausmass und die
Rahmenbedingungen des Wandels von Familie sowie ihr
gesellschaftlicher Standort, die Sozialisationsfunktion der Familie
und ihre Rolle im Kulturtransfer zwischen den Generationen, der
Umgang mit den Optionen Ehe und Elternschaft, die innerfamiliale
Arbeitsteilung, Ursachen und Bewaltigungsstrategien familialer
Konflikte und Eltern-Kind-Beziehung in der Postadoleszenz, ebenso
Beitrage zur Sozialberichterstattung und Sozialpolitik. Der Band
gibt damit einen Uberblick uber die gegenwartige Lage der Familie
und uber den Diskussionsstand einer interdisziplinaren
Familienwissenschaft."
Family in all its aspects Familienbande International experts
provide an overview of the current state-of-the-art of European
family research and outline the multiple formations, structures and
configurations of family in Europe. Four aspects are discussed in
depth: family images, sex/gender roles, globalisation and family
development processes. Influenced by globalisation, European
countries experience processes which still have greatly varying
consequences. Cultural differences, reflected in a range of family
schemes and national family policies, are one reason for the
continued existence of differences in the scope and speed of change
processes. Quite generally, images and concepts of family have
become more heterogeneous and flexible. The flip side of this coin
is that family members are increasingly faced with the challenges
of achieving a satisfactory work-life balance - a task aggravated
by globalisation. We therefore need to ask how family policy can
help families enjoy adequate freedom of action and latitude for
their decision-making. To summarise: a read well worth the effort
for all experts working in family research and family policy.
German description: Die systematische Analyse der sozialen
Beziehungen und der Familienstrukturen mehrerer Generationen mit
Hilfe der Erstellung von Genogrammen ist zu einer vielfach
genutzten Methode in der Familientherapie und der Sozialen Arbeit
geworden. Der Schwerpunkt beim Einsatz dieser Methodik in den
psychosozialen Arbeitsfeldern liegt bisher auf der Analyse der
familiaren Funktionstuchtigkeit. Wenig eruiert werden die sozialen
Einflusse, die auf die Familie einwirken und sich ebenfalls mit
dieser Methodik und erganzend mit der Netzwerkanalyse darstellen
lassen. Fur die Analyse dieser Methoden wird ein Raster
vorgestellt. Weitere Erganzungen der Arbeit mit Genogrammen werden
mit der visuellen Analyse und durch die Fokussierung auf die
Ressourcen angeboten. Die hier vorgestellte Genogrammarbeit stellt
Moglichkeiten der psychosozialen und der sozialen Diagnostik vor,
die interdisziplinar verschiedene soziale Arbeitsfelder und
Berufsgruppen verbindet.
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