Social Relations and the Life Course

This collection of essays represents some of the most important recent research into changing patterns of family, household, and community life. It brings together some of the leading sociologists in the field to explore how these informal social relationships change over time and the life course.

Graham Allan is Professor of Sociology, and Gill Jones is at the School of Social Relations, both at Keele University.

List of Tables

vii

List of Figures

viii

Notes on the Contributors

ix

Introduction

1

(12)

Graham Allan

Gill Jones

Gender and Generation: Changing Pension Inequalities Over Time

13

(18)

Sara Arber

Part I Children and Parents

Past/Present/Future: Time and the Meaning of Change in the `Family'

31

(18)

Val Gillies

Janet Holland

Jane Ribbens McCarthy

`The Never-ending Story': Children's Gaze and the Unresolved Narrative of Their Parents' Divorce

49

(14)

Jean Duncombe

Dennis Marsden

Researching Childhood: Time, Memory and Method

63

(16)

Rachel Thomson

Janet Holland

Sheila Henderson

Sheena McGrellis

Sue Sharpe

Part II Family and Household Formation

Young Motherhood: Family Transmission or Family Transitions?

79

(24)

Sarah Cheesbrough

Young Adults' Household Formation: Individualization, Identity and Home

103

(17)

Elizabeth Kenyon

Negotiating Difference: Lesbian and Gay Transitions to Adulthood

120

(15)

Sara McNamee

Gill Valentine

Tracey Skelton

Ruth Butler

Single, 20-something and Seeking?

135

(20)

Lynn Jamieson

Robert Stewart

Yaojun Li

Michael Anderson

Frank Bechhofer

David McCrone

Part III Re-formulations

`Making It Their Home': In-migration, Time, Social Change and Belonging in a Rural Community

155

(17)

Catherine Maclean

Family and Community Ties in Space and Time

172

(15)

Fiona Devine

Nadia Joanne Britton

Peter Halfpenny

Rosemary Mellor

`If You Had a Whole Year of Weekends It Would be a Very Long Day': Situating and Assessing Time in the Context of Paid and Unpaid Work

187

(12)

Eileen Fairhurst

How Brief An Encounter? Time and Relationships, Pure or Otherwise

199

(15)

David H.J. Morgan

Bibliography

214

(14)

Index

228

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Social Relations and the Life Course

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