Reshaping social life / / Sarah Irwin

• Autore: Irwin Sarah <1961->
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2017; ©2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.40941
• Soggetto topico: Social change - Great Britain
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Social conditions 20th century
• Classificazione: 71.41
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Envisioning social landscapes of interconnection; 3 Reshaping difference and interdependence: the transformation of family life and divisions of labour into the twentieth century; 4 Contemporary transformations in gender, work and family; 5 Disposition and position: norms, attitudes and commitments to children, work and self; 6 Life course transitions and the changing landscape of opportunity and constraint; 7 Ethnicity and contexts of belonging and exclusion ; 8 Difference, hierarchy and perceptions of social justice9 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Caught up in current social changes, we do not fully understand the reshaping of social life. In sociological analyses there is a conceptual gap between subjectivities and social structural processes, and we face real difficulties in understanding social change and diversity. Through analysis of key areas of social life, here, Sarah Irwin develops a new and exciting resource for better understanding our changing social world. Breaking with conventional approaches and reconnecting the subjective with the objective, Irwin's book develops a new conceptual and analytical perspecti
• Titolo autorizzato: Reshaping social life
• ISBN: 1-134-30138-3; 1-280-24447-X; 9786610244478; 0-203-44895-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910765836503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II