ISBN:
9781861343093
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (353 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Biography and Social Exclusion in Europe : Experiences and Life Journeys
DDC:
305.56094
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Appendix B: Historicising the 'socio', theory, and the constant comparative methodIndex;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
