[PDF] Changing Patterns Of European Family Life eBook

Author : Katja Boh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 2023-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000920178

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Originally published in 1989, this cross-national study investigates the role and pattern of family life in fourteen countries in contemporary Europe. Providing a wealth of information on European families, it is a key source for anyone wishing to understand the changes in the family at that time. The contributors argue that, far from withering away, the family remained a very important social unit which continued to have considerable influence on other social institutions such as the state and the labour market. The central theme is the interrelation between changes in production and working life on one hand, and changes in family life and reproduction on the other. The contributors focus on the pressures and contradictions produced by the division of functions between family and work, and on problems which have arisen as a consequence of the sometimes incompatible and even conflicting demands of the two institutions. They show that the evolution of the nuclear family model in Europe had led to a great diversity of family patterns, and conclude that the family in modern European societies still had a contribution to make which no other institution could provide.

Author : David I. Kertzer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300090901

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The penultimate volume in this series explores the effect that industrialisation, new technology, the growth of cities, and the revolutions in transport and in communication had on the family between 1789 and 1913.

Author : David I. Kertzer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300089714

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This opening volume of a three-part history of the family in Europe examines the material conditions of family life, housing, diet and domestic organisation, and the economic and social factors that influenced its development.

Author : Jacques Commaille
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 1997-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780792347576

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Will the European Union have its ¿single family - a ¿European family - as it will have a single currency? This is the question at the origin of this book. Studies of family behavior and the organization of private life among European citizens, as well as of family member social status (children in relation to adults/parents, women in relation to men), and of social functions of the family, for example social reproduction, reveal so much convergence among European families that the reality of a ¿European family seems inevitable, and more so if one looks at foreign studies done - in Australia, the United States or Japan - of the family in Europe. However, studies of the different judicial and public policy laws in the different European Union member countries lead one to refine this first impression. The family does not have the same legal meaning in all places, and the ways in which it is defined by law and public policy continue to differ strongly, due in particular to historical factors, cultural traditions, and conceptions of the role of the State. In order for the family to be part of the construction of a European citizenship, the pluralistic nature of its political definitions will have to be recognized. Putting the family into the context of evolving European integration has never been done before. It was made possible in this study thanks to the joint efforts of two editors with long experience in social science studies of the family and as expert advisors to the European Commission, and by the work of the best international specialists in the field. This is a book intended for specialists working in the social sciences, for social and government policy-makers in the fields of family and social policy, and for all those interested in European integration.

Author : Franz-Xaver Kaufmann
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9780198233282

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This volume is a comparative study of family change in Europe and its dependency on social policy regimes. The authors explore family discourse, family law, single parents, gender relations, the "new fathers", divorce, and abortion within the framework of national policies vis-a-vis the family. Conventional wisdom assumes that policy decisions affecting the life situation of a population shape different opportunities for private living, particularly in relation to children and the family. But, the authors argue, it would be too simplistic to assume a direct causal link between welfare policies for the family and developments in the family sector. Family change is in fact mediated by institutional factors as well as by cultural traditions and political intervention. The chapters in this volume deal with the substantial and methodological problems of ascertaining the impact of different national policy regimes on family change.

Author : Hartmut Kaelble
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,10 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571815125

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Bringing together eight internationally known social historians from Europe and Israel, the book reveals the commonalities that link European societies together.

Author : David I. Kertzer
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Cross-cultural studies
ISBN :

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This book inaugurates a major three-volume history of the family in Europe over the past five hundred years. In the series, eminent European and American social historians present a fresh reading of family life in Europe, explaining how families and family relations differed across Europe and how and why they changed over time.

Author : Eileen Drew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 2002-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134741340

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A new and timely analysis of major changes in society within the extended European Union. Addresses the consequences of altered family forms , the restructuring of the labour markets and the conflicting demands of family and working life.