This book examines the everyday-life patterns of young adults under circumstances of vulnerability and precariousness. Its main focus is on the web of social relations that structure the everyday life of young people, for instance by providing resources and tools of solving problems, exerting pressures and voicing expectations, and shaping the person s self-conception, identity, and well-being. Based on more than 120 in-depth interviews with young long-term unemployed in six European countries, this book puts social support and the young jobless webs of social relations at center stage. It...

This open access volume provides evidence-based knowledge on European solidarity and citizen responses in times of crisis.

This Special Issue aims to contribute to the young academic discipline of European Sociology and focusses its attention towards the transnational (re-)structuration of social space and social fields.