Reshaping Social Life

ISBN-13: 9780415339384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 207 str.

Sarah Irwin

Opis

Caught up in current social changes, we still do not fully understand the reshaping of social life. Influential approaches stress agency, and a weakening of "traditional" social structural constraints and codes of behavior. Critics stress continuities in structural constraints and inequalities. "Reshaping Social Life" moves beyond these frameworks and explores key aspects of social change by analyzing the reshaping of social relations, differences and interdependencies, alongside linked norms, values and claims. It offers a fascinating and innovative way of slicing into and re-interrogating our changing social world.
"Reshaping Social Life" offers important new insights into changing social relations and patterns of interdependence. It will help reframe our understanding of social diversity and change. It will become a landmark resource for students, scholars and researchers.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Envisioning Social Landscapes of Interconnection  3. Reshaping Difference and Interdependence: The Transformation of Family Life and Divisions of Labour into the Twentieth Century  4. Contemporary Transformations in Gender, Work and Family  5. Disposition and Position: Norms, Attitudes and Commitments to Children, Work and Self  6. Life Course Transitions and the Changing Landscape of Opportunity and Constraint  7. Ethnicity and Contexts of Belonging and Exclusion  8. Difference, Hierarchy and Perceptions of Social Justice  9. Conclusion  Endnotes  References

O autorze

Sarah Irwin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds. Her research interests include family change, gender, employment, social difference and diversity and inequality and she has published extensively in these areas. Her last book, Rights of Passage: Social change and the transition from youth to adulthood (UCL Press), won the 1995 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.