The arena of everyday life
By: edited by Carja Butijn, Johan van Ophem, Gerda Casimir
Series: Manshold publication series -- v. 12; Mansholt publication series -- v. 12.
Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Wageningen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9789086862214
Subjects: Social history; Households; Food security
Description: "In 'The arena of everyday life' nine authors look back and forward at developments in the sociology of consumers and households. Nine chapters show variety in the employed methods, from multivariate analyses of survey data to classical essays. The contributions are organised around four themes. In the first theme, two chapters entail a critical discussion of the concepts livelihood and household. The second part deals with health, in particular food security, hygiene and aids/HIV. The third theme focuses on female opportunities to foster income procurement of household by respectively microfinance and entrepreneurship. The fourth theme concentrates on two topical societal developments in a Western society, the first chapter dealing with the issue of creating opportunities for tailor-made services to older people, the second one focussing on the home-work balance of telecommuters. This publication, written by international researchers, once supervised by prof. Anke Niehof, while writing their PhD dissertation, or (former) colleagues of Niehof, covers the many issues and reflecting her work and interest. The arena of everyday life is what her research and teaching evolved around, as shown in this book."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.