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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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