Overview
- Offers a touchstone collection of theories, methodologies, and case studies that foreground the specific sociological contexts and contributions of the sociology of the family in Europe
- Provides a historical overview of the development of family research in Europe
- Deals with contemporary and pressing issues, including declining fertility, ageing, migration, changing intimate and family relations, changing legal frameworks, and intimate lives
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Researching Families and Intimate Lives in Europe: Theoretical and Methodological Trends
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Welfare State and Family Policy Regimes in Europe
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Families as Relationships
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About this book
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.
Reviews
"Skillfully crafted around a diversity of concepts, theories, and methods, this handbook represents a wealth of knowledge on family change in twenty-first century Europe. It is a tribute to years of research, debate, and cross-country networking at the European Sociological Association and beyond. In thought-provoking and comprehensive contributions, European family sociologists invite us to explore the changing terrain of family and intimate lives in terms of relationships, proximity, gender, care, parenting, fertility, inequalities, migration, life course and family policy."
—Karin Wall, Research Professor, ICS Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
—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
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe
Editors: Anna-Maija Castrén, Vida Česnuitytė, Isabella Crespi, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Rita Gouveia, Claude Martin, Almudena Moreno Mínguez, … Katarzyna Suwada
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73306-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73305-6Published: 25 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73308-7Published: 26 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73306-3Published: 24 June 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 660
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development, Comparative Social Policy, Children, Youth and Family Policy