Biography and social exclusion in Europe : : Experiences and life journeys /

Biography and social exclusion in Europe : : Experiences and life journeys / / 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 welf...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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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

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