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  • Family Configurations

    A Structural Approach to Family Diversity

    by Eric D. Widmer ...
    Family Configurations develops current scholarship on families and intimate lives by demonstrating that family relationships, far from being fluid and inconsequential, are more structured and committed than ever. Based on a series of empirical studies carried out in the US and Europe, this volume reveals the diversity of family relationships that emerge as a result of various key family issues, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Families and Personal Networks

    An International Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Eric D. Widmer, Jacques–Antoine Gauthier, Rita Gouveia, Vida Česnuitytė, Karin Wall ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book critically assesses the main features of the modernization of family life and personal relationships by examining and comparing three European countries with different social and political pathways: Portugal, Switzerland and Lithuania. Drawing on national surveys of family trajectories and social networks, the contributors highlight personal and family relationships through the lens of ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Family Continuity and Change

    Contemporary European Perspectives

    Edited by Vida Česnuitytė, Detlev Lück, Eric D. Widmer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume provides readers with recent sociological approaches to family understanding, theorising and practices within the context of continuities and change, both across generations and during individual life courses. The contributors uniquely investigate the friction between persisting family needs and changing circumstances, between holding on to traditional family norms and adapting to fast ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life

    Dynamics of Stressors, Resources, and Reserves

    Edited by Dario Spini, Eric Widmer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access interdisciplinary book integrates the major findings and theoretical advances of a 12-year research program run by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES research program hosted by the universities of Lausanne and Geneva, within a single comprehensive and coherent publication on vulnerability across adulthood. The book is based on the idea that vulnerability is ... Read more

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  • Aging in Canada

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  • Understanding Social Networks

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    Despite the swift spread of social network concepts and their applications and the rising use of network analysis in social science, there is no book that provides a thorough general introduction for the serious reader. Understanding Social Networks fills that gap by explaining the big ideas that underlie the social network phenomenon. Written for those interested in this fast moving area but who ... Read more

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  • Researching Resilience

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  • Claiming Disability

    Knowledge and Identity

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  • Population-Based Survey Experiments

    by Diana C. Mutz ...
    Population-based survey experiments have become an invaluable tool for social scientists struggling to generalize laboratory-based results, and for survey researchers besieged by uncertainties about causality. Thanks to technological advances in recent years, experiments can now be administered to random samples of the population to which a theory applies. Yet until now, there was no self ... Read more

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  • Framed by Gender

    How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World

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  • Empirical Legal Research

    A Guidance Book for Lawyers, Legislators and Regulators

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