Families and Kinship in Contemporary Europe [electronic resource] : Rules and Practices of Relatedness /
Jallinoja, Riitta.author.
Widmer, E.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editors' Preface; Notes on Contributors; Part I: Outlining Relatedness; 1 Introduction; 2 Relationality and Socio-Cultural Theories of Family Life; Part II: Assembling Families; 3 Making Family at a Wedding: Bilateral Kinship and Equality; 4 Christmas Celebration, an Annual Family Gathering; 5 Family Photographs: Putting Families on Display; 6 Obituaries as Family Assemblages; Part III: Setting up Families with Significant Others; 7 Couple Formation as a Transition between Families; 8 Social Networks and Family Formation
9 Exclusivity and Inclusivity in Transnational AdoptionPart IV: Families in the Remaking; 10 Money and the Dynamics of Intimate Relationships; 11 Making Families at an Old Age; 12 Reassembling Families after Divorce; 13 Families in a Globalized World; Part V: Family Relationships as Social Capital; 14 Family Relations as Social Capital; 15 The Fabric of Trust in Families: Inherited or Achieved?; 16 Afterthoughts; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Families.
Families-Social aspects.
Social policy.
Culture.
Social work.
Ethnology-Europe.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Family.
Children, Youth and Family Policy.
Sociology of Culture.
Social Work.
European Culture.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.