Biography and social exclusion in Europe : : Experiences and life journeys / / ed. by Prue Chamberlayne, Michael Rustin, Tom Wengraf.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Breckner, Roswitha,; Chamberlayne, Prue,; Hungerbühler, William,; Ioannidi-Kapolou, Elisabeth,; Mestheneos, Elizabeth,; Murard, Numa,; Peterson, Martin,; Rupp, Susanne,; Rustin, Michael,; Spanò, Antonella,; Tejero, Elisabet,; Thorsell, Birgitta,; Torrabadella, Laura,; Wengraf, Tom,
• HerausgeberIn: Chamberlayne, Prue,; Rustin, Michael,; Wengraf, Tom,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Other title: Front Matter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on contributors --; Introduction: from biography to social policy --; Suffering the fall of the Berlin Wall: blocked journeys in Spain and Germany --; Guilty victims: social exclusion in contemporary France --; Premodernity and postmodernity in Southern Italy --; A tale of class differences in contemporary Britain --; The shortest way out of work --; Male journeys into uncertainty --; Love and emancipation --; Female identities in late modernity --; Gender and family in the development of Greek state and society --; Corporatist structures and cultural diversity in Sweden --; ‘Migrants’: a target-category for social policy? Experiences of first-generation migration --; Second-generation transcultural lives --; Biographical work and agency innovation: relationships, reflexivity and theory-in-use --; Conclusions: social transitions and biographical work --; Discovering biographies in changing social worlds: the biographical–interpretive method --; Historicising the ‘socio’, theory, and the constant comparative method --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781847425607; 9783111196213
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Prue Chamberlayne, Michael Rustin, Tom Wengraf.

Based on 250 life-story interviews in seven European Union countries, Biography and social exclusion in Europe: analyses personal struggles against social exclusion to illuminate local milieus and changing welfare regimes and contexts; points to challenging new agendas for European politics and welfare, beyond the rhetoric of communitarianism and the New Deal; vividly illustrates the lived experience and environmental complexity working for and against structural processes of social exclusion; refashions the interpretive tradition as a teaching and research tool linking macro and micro realities. · · Students, academic teachers and professional trainers, practitioners, politicians, policy makers and researchers in applied and comparative welfare fields will all benefit from reading this book.