The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe

ISBN-13: 9783030733056 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 661 str.

Anna-Maija Castrén; Vida Česnuityte; Isabella Crespi

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. The Family of Individuals: An overview of the sociology of family in Europe, 130 years after Durkheim's first university course

3. Gender, social class and family relations in different life stages in Europe

4. What Law Has Joined: family relations and categories of kinship in the European court of Human rights

5. Family demography and values in Europe: Continuity and change

6. The configurational approach to families: Methodological suggestions

7. Visual Family Research Methods

8. Family transformations and sub-replacement fertility in Europe

9. Reexamining Degenderization. Changes in Family Policies in Europe

10. Familialisation of Care in European Societies. Between family and the state

11. Who Benefits from Parental Leave Policies? A Comparison Between Nordic and Southern European Countries

12. Family, poverty, and social policy interventions

13. Redefining the boundaries of family and personal relationships

14. Money in couples: The organisation of finances and the symbolic use of money in couples

15. Sibling relationships: being connected and related

16. "It's a balance on a knife-edge": Expectations of parents and adult children

17. Non-parental childcare in France, Norway, and Spain

18. Sharing the caring responsibility between the private and the public: childcare, parental choice, and inequality

19. Shared parenting after separation and divorce in Europe in the context of the Second demographic transition

20. Subjective well-being of children in the context of family change in Estonia, Poland, and Romania

21. Assessment of parental potential. Socioeconomic risk factors and of children's wellbeing 

22. Towards a 'parenting regime': globalizing tendencies and localised variation

23. Migration and families in European society

24. The multidimensional nature of family migration: Transnational and mixed families in Europe

25. Intergenerational relations in the context of migration: gender roles in the family relationships

26. Despite the Distance? Intergenerational Contact in Times of Migration

27. Parenting and caring across borders in refugee context

28. The contribution of the life-course perspective to the study of family relationships: advances, challenges, and limitations

29. Varieties of youth transitions? A review of the comparative literature on the entry to adulthood

30. Transitions in later life and the re-configuration of family relationships in the third age: the case of baby boomers

31. From taken for granted to taken seriously. The Linked Lives Life Course Principle under Literature Analysis

32. Afterthoughts on an "earthquake of changes"

O autorze

Anna-Maija Castrén is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Eastern Finland, Finland.

Vida Česnuitytė is Associate Professor of Sociology at Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania.

Isabella Crespi is Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology at University of Macerata, Italy.

Jacques-Antoine Gauthier is Senior Lecturer in the Life Course and Inequality Research Centre at University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Rita Gouveia is Post-Doctoral Researcher in Family Sociology in the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Claude Martin is Research Professor in the National Centre for Scientific Research at University of Rennes, France.

Almudena Moreno Mínguez is Professor of Sociology at University of Valladolid, Spain.

Katarzyna Suwada is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland.

Blurb

‘The handbook provides an excellent blend of reassessment and reflection on what we know and how we know about families and intimate lives in Europe. Critical overviews and new insights are offered across a carefully chosen range of starting points.’
—Lynn Jamieson, Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh, UK, and series editor for Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life

‘This handbook is an excellent compendium of recent scholarship on the sociology of the family by European scholars. It will be a valuable resource for American scholars who wish to keep up with the best research in Europe.’
—Andrew Cherlin, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Johns Hopkins University, USA

This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe. More than sixty prominent European scholars’ original texts present the field’s main theoretical and methodological approaches in addition to issues such as families as relationships, parental arrangements, parenting practices and child well-being, family policies in welfare state regimes, family lives in migration, and family trajectories. Presenting cutting-edge research on findings, theoretical interpretations, and solutions to methodological challenges, it is a timely tool for researchers, teachers, students, and family practitioners who wish to familiarise themselves with the state of family sociology in Europe.