Overview
- Editors:
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Riitta Jallinoja
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University of Helsinki, Finland
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Eric D. Widmer
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University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Outlining Relatedness
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- Riitta Jallinoja, Eric D. Widmer
Pages 3-12
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Assembling Families
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- Florence Maillochon, Anna-Maija Castrén
Pages 31-44
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Setting up Families with Significant Others
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- Laura Bernardi, Anna Oppo
Pages 95-111
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Families in the Remaking
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Front Matter
Pages 145-145
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- Caroline Ruiner, Andreas Hirseland, Werner Schneider
Pages 147-162
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Family Relationships as Social Capital
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Front Matter
Pages 201-201
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- Giovanna Rossi, Roberta Bonini, Sara Mazzucchelli
Pages 203-215
About this book
Instead of seeing the family as a 'monolithic' entity, as though separate from its surroundings, this new approach draws attention to assemblages of various types that in different constellations and through different transactions relate people to each other as families and kin.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Helsinki, Finland
Riitta Jallinoja
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University of Geneva, Switzerland
Eric D. Widmer
About the editors
ELISABETH BECK-GERNSHEIM is Visiting Professor at NTNU/Trondheim, Norway
LAURA BERNARDI is Professor of Demography and Sociology of Life Course, Director of the Laboratory for Life Course Studies and Deputy Director of the National Centre for Competence in Research 'LIVES' at Lausanne University, Switzerland
ROBERTA BONINI is a Lecturer in Social Policy and Quantitative Methodology at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy
IVAN DE CARLO is a PhD Student and Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Geneva University, Switzerland
ANNA-MAIJA CASTRÉN is Docent and a Research Fellow at the Department of Social Research (sociology), Helsinki University, Finland
ANTÒNIA GOMILA works at the Department of Philosophy, University of the Balearic Islands
ROLAND HAURI is working on his doctoral thesis and is a research and teaching assistant at the Institute for Practical Theology, Bern University, Switzerland
ANDREAS HIRSELAND is a Senior Researcher at the Department 'Joblessness and Social Inclusion', Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the German Federal Employment Agency (BA), in Nuremberg, Germany
RIITTA HÖGBACKA is a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Social Research (sociology), Helsinki University, Finland and a Visiting Scholar at California University, Berkeley, USA
SYLVIA KEIM is a Research Scientist at Rostock University, Germany
FLORENCE MAILLOCHON is a Sociologist at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS; CentreMaurice Halbwachs; ERIS) in Paris, France
SARA MAZZUCCHELLI is a Sociologist and a Research Fellow at the Athenaeum Centre for Family Research and Studies, Catholic University of Milan, Italy
ANNA OPPO was previously Professor of Sociology at Gagliari University, Italy, but is now retired
GIOVANNA ROSSI is Full Professor of Family Sociology at Catholic University of Milan, Italy
CAROLINE RUINER is a Research Associate at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Augsburg University, Germany
WERNER SCHNEIDER is Professor of Sociology at Augsburg University, Germany
CAROL SMART is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life at Manchester University, UK
DANA SÝKOROVÁ is Docent/Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Studies, Ostrava University and the Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic
ULRIKE ZARTLER is an Assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Vienna University, Austria
