UID:
almafu_9960118817402883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 339 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9786612318177
,
1-282-31817-9
,
1-84742-560-7
Content:
Throughout Europe, standardised approaches to social policy and practice are being radically questioned and modified. Beginning from the narrative detail of individual lives, this book re-thinks welfare predicaments, emphasising gender, generation, ethnic and class implications of economic and social deregulation.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jan 2022).
,
BIOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION IN EUROPE; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction: from biography to social policy; 2. Suffering the fall of the Berlin Wall: blocked journeys in Spain and Germany; 3. Guilty victims: social exclusion in contemporary France; 4. Premodernity and postmodernity in Southern Italy; 5. A tale of class differences in contemporary Britain; 6. The shortest way out of work; 7. Male journeys into uncertainty; 8. Love and emancipation; 9. Female identities in late modernity
,
10. Gender and family in the development of Greek state and society11. Corporatist structures and cultural diversity in Sweden; 12. 'Migrants': a target-category for social policy? Experiences of first-generation migration; 13. Second-generation transcultural lives; 14. Biographical work and agency innovation: relationships, reflexivity and theory-in-use; 15. Conclusions: social transitions and biographical work; Appendix A: Discovering biographies in changing social worlds: the biographical-interpretive method
,
Appendix B: Historicising the 'socio', theory, and the constant comparative methodIndex
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-86134-310-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-86134-309-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
DOI:
10.56687/9781847425607
