Biography and Social Exclusion in Europe : Experiences and Life Journeys


Prue. Chamberlayne
Bok Engelsk 2002 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Bristol : : The Policy Press, , 2002.
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1 online resource (353 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - 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. - 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.
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1861343094. - 1861343108

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