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Population Europe • 17.09.2021New Book on European Sociology of the Family
“The Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Family”, edited by Prof. Dr. Norbert F. Schneider and Prof. Dr. Michaela Kreyenfeld, provides an overview of the current state of European family sociology and processes of change in the family. It discusses new theories, innovative methods and the development and use of new data. This is also intended to create further perspectives for European family sociology.
Source: BiB, Hertie School Berlin
Change of the Family in the View of Family Sociology
The book is divided into eight parts with the first three parts, in addition to the introduction, providing an overview of classical and new theoretical approaches in family sociology. Part 4 is devoted to the growing diversity of the family as it evolves, part 5 considers family transitions over the life course, while part 6 focuses on intimate and intergenerational relationships in the family. New insights into the distribution of housework and reconciliation problems in the family are provided by the analyses in part 7. In part 8, the involvement of the family in the social context comes into focus. Here, topics such as the regulation of medically assisted reproduction, child poverty and the organisation of family life across national borders are addressed.
The contributions make clear what consequences changes in family have as a research topic in recent decades for family sociology research interests. 41 scholars from more than 10 countries have contributed to the volume. Among them are also researchers from BiB.