Social Relations and the Life Course

by Allan, Graham; Jones, Gill

• ISBN13: 9780333984970
• ISBN10: 0333984978
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection of essays represents some of the most important recent research into changing patterns of family, household, and community life. It brings together some of the leading sociologists in the field to explore how these informal social relationships change over time and the life course.

Author Biography

Graham Allan is Professor of Sociology, and Gill Jones is at the School of Social Relations, both at Keele University.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
List of Figures	viii
Notes on the Contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
Graham Allan
Gill Jones
Gender and Generation: Changing Pension Inequalities Over Time	13	(18)
Sara Arber
Part I Children and Parents
Past/Present/Future: Time and the Meaning of Change in the `Family'	31	(18)
Val Gillies
Janet Holland
Jane Ribbens McCarthy
`The Never-ending Story': Children's Gaze and the Unresolved Narrative of Their Parents' Divorce	49	(14)
Jean Duncombe
Dennis Marsden
Researching Childhood: Time, Memory and Method	63	(16)
Rachel Thomson
Janet Holland
Sheila Henderson
Sheena McGrellis
Sue Sharpe
Part II Family and Household Formation
Young Motherhood: Family Transmission or Family Transitions?	79	(24)
Sarah Cheesbrough
Young Adults' Household Formation: Individualization, Identity and Home	103	(17)
Elizabeth Kenyon
Negotiating Difference: Lesbian and Gay Transitions to Adulthood	120	(15)
Sara McNamee
Gill Valentine
Tracey Skelton
Ruth Butler
Single, 20-something and Seeking?	135	(20)
Lynn Jamieson
Robert Stewart
Yaojun Li
Michael Anderson
Frank Bechhofer
David McCrone
Part III Re-formulations
`Making It Their Home': In-migration, Time, Social Change and Belonging in a Rural Community	155	(17)
Catherine Maclean
Family and Community Ties in Space and Time	172	(15)
Fiona Devine
Nadia Joanne Britton
Peter Halfpenny
Rosemary Mellor
`If You Had a Whole Year of Weekends It Would be a Very Long Day': Situating and Assessing Time in the Context of Paid and Unpaid Work	187	(12)
Eileen Fairhurst
How Brief An Encounter? Time and Relationships, Pure or Otherwise	199	(15)
David H.J. Morgan
Bibliography	214	(14)
Index	228