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January 2008 - March 2016
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Among heterosexual couples, employment of the female partner may suffer from household migration often driven by the job of the male partner. Most research has traditionally focused on the distance moved after couple formation and has neglected how far partners live from their birthplaces. Recent life course research has shown that staying in, leav...
Les adolescent·e·s font fréquemment face à des situations de violence interpersonnelle lors de la pratique d’un sport, et celles-ci restent encore souvent peu ou pas détectées dans le monde sportif. Cela peut s’expliquer par la priorité accordée à la performance sur l’intégrité physique, par la croyance à l’idée de no pain no gain , ou par la multi...
This study focuses on the constitution of financial reserves in Switzerland from a longitudinal perspective. Personal income after retirement derives from financial reserves whose constitution depends both on positional factors, such as sex and birth cohorts, and processual factors, such as occupational trajectories, in the institutional context of...
Life course studies have the ambitious goal of relating one portion of the life history to subsequent outcomes, which may themselves be later fragments of the overall history. These studies may also wish to relate certain domains, or dimensions of the life course to others, as they each evolve over time. How can these partial histories be operation...
The aim of the thematic issue Family Supportive Networks and Practices in Vulnerable Contexts is to provide a cross‐national perspective on the current state of caregiving and support practices within family networks in Europe. The articles featured in this volume were selected from among the presentations made in 2021 at two conferences promoted b...
The life-course paradigm insists on the need to study trajectories and how they unfold over time. Two broad families of methodological strategies are generally used for this purpose. The first strategy focuses on the occurrence of events or transitions describing the dynamics of life trajectories. The second strategy emphasizes the holistic nature...
This chapter aims at uncovering the heuristic potential associated with analyzing family and occupational trajectories holistically for the study of social vulnerability. Empirically, sequence analysis shows that distinct and enduring structuring processes shape individual life courses. Long term historical processes contribute to standardize or to...
Event history calendar (EHC) methods have received increasing attention from the life-course surveys that have been used in recent years. According to the literature, the EHC provides high-quality data in retrospective surveys because it replicates the autobiographical memory retrieval processes. EHC interviewing is processed through the visual dis...
As exchanges of instrumental support between kin and non-kin remain essential to buffer the impact of critical life events, we consider the characteristics of personal configurations that may enhance or hinder them. Personal configurations vary in terms of their composition and two aspects of their structure: density and centrality. These dimension...
‘The handbook provides an excellent blend of reassessment and reflection on what we know and how we know about families and intimate lives in Europe. Critical overviews and new insights are offered across a carefully chosen range of starting points.’
—Lynn Jamieson, Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh, UK, and series editor for Palgrave...
Individual life courses are marked by residential mobility often associated with family and workplace changes and therefore likely to be related to the types of personal relationships people develop and maintain. Evidence about the relationship between residential mobility behaviours over the life course and personal network composition is however...
In diesem Artikel werden die Trends von Einstellungen zur Geschlechtergleichstellung in der Schweiz zwischen 2000 und 2017 analysiert. Es wird aufgezeigt, dass die Einstellungen zu den sozialen Rollen von Frauen immer egalitärer werden, während die Einstellungen zur Erreichung der Gleichstellung stabil bleiben. Es herrscht zwar Konsens über die Erw...
Cet article analyse l'évolution des attitudes envers l’égalité des genres en Suisse entre 2000 et 2017. Il montre que les attitudes envers les rôles sociaux des femmes deviennent plus égalitaires, tandis que les attitudes envers la réalisation de l'égalité sont stables. Si le travail rémunéré des femmes fait l’objet d’un consensus, nos résultats so...
This paper investigates trends in Swiss women’s and men’s gender attitudes in the period 2000-2017 using the Swiss Household Panel data. Based on pooled OLS and fixed-effects models, we establish the following for women and men: (1) over this time period, attitudes towards gender roles become more egalitarian, while attitudes towards gender equalit...
Le concept de trajectoire de vie individuelle, central aux sciences sociales, est rarement utilisé en tant que tel dans la recherche quantitative. Pourtant, il peut être efficacement opérationnalisé à l’aide de l’analyse de séquence. Cette méthode holistique utilise des données longitudinales pour associer à chaque individu d’une population une séq...
This article examines how residential trajectories influence the spatiality and composition of personal networks. Three mechanisms are considered: the addition of spatially close network members, the selection of spatially distant network members, and the substitution of spatially distant network members by spatially close ones. An ego-centred netw...
This article investigates the association between personal networks and stress, both positively through support and negatively through conflict. In a representative sample of 755 individuals residing in Switzerland, each individual was asked to name people in their lives who they perceived as very important, as well as to report their mutual suppor...
Methods and models for longitudinal data with categorical, multi‐dimensional outcomes are quite limited, but they are essential to the study of life histories. For example, in the Swiss Household Panel, information on the co‐residence and professional status of several thousand individuals is available through to age 45 years. Interest centres on t...
Cet article est basé sur une enquête réalisée auprès de huit cents personnes habitant en Suisse, nées dans les années cinquante et septante. Il conjugue une approche sociométrique qui quantifie les relations sociales des individus avec une analyse des parcours de vie, ce qui permet d’observer non seulement l'effet des transitions de vie, mais aussi...
Der vorliegende Artikel basiert auf einer Umfrage unter 800 Personen, die in der Schweiz wohnen und in den 1950er bzw. 1970er Jahren geboren sind. Er quantifiziert die sozialen Beziehungen der Befragten und stellt sie in den Zusammenhang ihrer Lebensverläufe. Dadurch lässt sich beobachten, wie sich zeitlichen Übergänge auf das Leben der jeweiligen...
The LIVES-FORS Cohort Study (LCS) is a longitudinal annual survey following a cohort of young adults born between 1988 and 1997 who grew up in Switzerland (initial N = 1,691). The LCS was launched in 2013 and complements the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) by over-representing the second generation of immigrants (‘secondos’). The principal aim of the s...
In a context of increasing pluralization and individualization of family forms, families would often develop through (individual) spatial mobility. This challenges a dominant view of the family that emphasises spatial proximity and residential stability in a conducive environment for family development. Using data from the Swiss survey Family tiMes...
Individuals develop personal networks in a cumulative way over the life course, with early adulthood being a critical period with multiple transitions relating to family formation and entry into the labour market. Existing research on personal networks and the life course usually stresses the impact of single life transitions and events on the comp...
In this article, we propose an innovative method which is a combination of Sequences Analysis and Event History Analysis. We called this method Sequence History Analysis (SHA). We start by identifying typical past trajectories of individuals over time by using Sequence Analysis. We then estimate the effect of these typical past trajectories on the...
In this article, we propose an innovative method which is a combination of Sequences Analysis and Event History Analysis. We called this method Sequence History Analysis (SHA). We start by identifying typical past trajectories of individuals over time by using Sequence Analysis. We then estimate the effect of these typical past trajectories on the...
The share of family and non-family ties in personal networks varies not only across the life course following major transitions and events but also according to the type of welfare state in which individual lives unfold. Using network and sequence analyses, this chapter investigates for two birth cohorts (1950–1955 and 1970–1975) how the compositio...
Event history calendar (EHC) methods have received increasing attention from the life-course surveys that have been used in recent years. According to the literature, the EHC provides high-quality data in retrospective surveys because it replicates the autobiographical memory retrieval processes. EHC interviewing is processed through the visual dis...
This book critically assesses the main features of the modernization of family life and personal relationships by examining and comparing three European countries with different social and political pathways: Portugal, Switzerland and Lithuania. Drawing on national surveys of family trajectories and social networks, the contributors highlight perso...
p>This book critically assesses the main features of the modernization of family life and personal relationships by examining and comparing three European...</p
There are concerns that migrants may be embedded in far-flung networks with support being less collective. The spatial dispersion of their relatives and friends would result in fragmented networks with lower solidarity and lower mutual trust than densely connected networks based on geographical proximity. This may be particularly true for migrants...
Over the life course, individuals develop personal networks that provide essential resources, sporadically or on a daily basis, such as instrumental, emotional, and informational support. Those personal networks are composed of family (i.e., primary and extended kin) and nonfamily ties (i.e., friends, colleagues, acquaintances) (Pahl and Spencer 20...
p>Over the life course, individuals develop personal networks which provide essential resources - sporadically or on a daily basis - such as instrumental, emotional, and informational support. Those personal networks are composed of family (primary and extended kin) and non-family ties (friends, colleagues, acquaintances) (Pahl & Spencer, 2004). Th...
p>This book critically assesses the main features of the modernization of family life and personal relationships by examining and comparing three European...</p
The aim of this study is to examine whether the co-residence structures in which young adults grew up is likely to affect their propensity of leaving the parental home. The empirical research was based on the LIVES Cohort study, a panel survey that started in autumn 2013 in Switzerland. Two longitudinal statistical methods were used as complementar...
Dans un contexte de pénurie infirmière, l’étude nurses at work a pour but de fournir des informations sur les choix de carrière des infirmières en Suisse et leurs raisons de rester dans le secteur de la santé ou de le quitter. Quelque 15 000 infirmières y ont participé, pour la plupart diplômées en Suisse.
p>This chapter discusses the rationale for the use of life history calendars in studying social and psychological vulnerability. Pragmatic and substantive aspects suggest that life history calendars are powerful tools for retrospective surveys on vulnerability. Life history calendars are substantially more cost-effective and easier to implement tha...
How are employment and family experiences simultaneously linked to the timing of retirement? Based on a life course perspective, this article aims to understand the way in which different work and family statuses accumulated throughout adult life, lead to early, on-time, or late withdrawals from the labor market. We focused on Switzerland, a countr...
p>La division du travail social représente un des éléments centraux du fonctionnement et de la transformation des sociétés humaines. Le corollaire direct de la spécialisation fonctionnelle est l'augmentation du nombre des rôles sociaux possibles et l'accroissement de leur complémentarité et de leur interdépendance (Durkheim, 1893). Pourtant, en dép...
Transition to parenthood in Switzerland takes place in a particularly gendered institutional context. It is the only European country where men do not have access to any kind of statutory parental or paternity leaves. This study empirically investigates the extent to which institutional change – through paternity leave implementation at the company...
La recherche "Aspirations et orientations professionnelles des filles et des garçons en fin de
scolarité obligatoire: quels déterminants pour plus d'égalité?" permet de mieux comprendre
l'origine et la persistance des différences entre filles et garçons dans l'orientation
professionnelle. Elle est basée sur deux enquêtes : l'une, quantitative, a ét...
This chapter introduces a second dimension of ethnicisation: the interdependency between markers of identity and migration behaviour and how it has resulted in new (ethnic) communities of fate and the dismantling of many multi-ethnic locations. The authors hypothesise that specific structures of constraints and opportunities emerge at both the macr...
Individual life courses may be defined as sequences of status profiles. They are multidimensional in the sense that they unfold simultaneously in various interdependent life domains such as family and occupation. In the Swiss welfare state system, family is considered as a private matter and only limited extra-familial childcare facilities are prov...
Transition to parenthood in Switzerland takes place in a particularly gendered welfare state. It is the only European country where men do not have access to any kind of statutory parental or paternity leaves. Following a conceptualization of gender as a social structure, we consider that parenthood is shaped by social mechanisms producing differen...
Life-history calendar (LHC) methods have been increasingly used in surveys in the last two decades. There is indeed a general consensus on the fact that the highly structured but flexible approach of the LHC facilitates the memory of past events. Respondent's past experiences provide a context for retrieval of autobiographical memories and they are...
p>In the population history of European pre-industrial population, late marriage and high level of final celibacy are seen as the most important components of demographic regimes, avoiding an excessive demographic pressure on scarce resources. While during the last decades the scientific approach emphasized the study of individual life trajectories...
This research addresses the interrelations existing between trajectories of intimate partnerships and attitudes toward sexuality, sexual desire, and sexual satisfaction. It is based on a dataset of 600 adults aged 25-46 living in Geneva (Switzerland) and uses innovative multivariate techniques for clustering life trajectories. The results emphasize...
This book gives a general view of sequence analysis, the statistical study of successions of states or events. It includes innovative contributions on life course studies, transitions into and out of employment, contemporaneous and historical careers, and political trajectories. The approach presented in this book is now central to the life-course...
Since its introduction in the social sciences in the 1980s, sequence analysis (SA) has enhanced our understanding of a broad range of social processes. In this chapter we recall fundamental underlying sociological concepts, such as narratives, trajectories, stages, events, transitions and the role of the context. We also differentiate levels of seq...
p>Survey participation is a type of social interaction between an interviewer and a respondent; by hypothesis, the way in which the respondent is successfully contacted, and agrees to cooperate, is a process of involvement in a social activity. Therefore, it is appropriate to use sequence analysis to understand how participants enter the survey acc...
This article investigates the differences in post-compulsory education pathways between natives and second-generation immigrants in Switzerland. It analyses to which extent the socio-economic background explains the different post-compulsory education trajectories of children of Swiss and second-generation immigrants. Using data from the Transition...
"Cet ouvrage explore le nouveau concept de "parcours social", concept particulièrement efficient pour observer les inégalités de toutes sortes que subissent les hommes et les femmes dans des domaines aussi variés que le travail, la santé, l'éducation et la formation. Il apparaît que le processus d'individualisation mis en oeuvre par les politiques...
The use of life-history calendar methods in survey research has been growing during the last couple of decades. This study presents a series of tests on the Swiss Panel LIVES Calendar (SPLC) aiming to understand the quality of the tool in collecting the expected data. The SPLC is a paper and pencil tool specifically designed for the first wave of t...
p>Modern conflicts have been associated with large numbers of relocated individuals (Schmeidl, 1997). The Yugoslavian wars are no exception: they have been highlighted for their association with systematic ethnic cleansing and dramatic moves of civil populations. It is of great importance to understand how collective threats such as wars have an im...
Empirical findings show that the success of marriages and other intimate partnerships depends on objective attributes such as differences of age, cultural background, or educational levels between partners. However, one previous publication that considers the marriage market as a stock to be optimized using a branch and bound algorithm triggered nu...
Most of the existing research relating to the life courses of people with psychiatric symptoms focuses on the occurrence and the impact of non-normative events on the onsets of crises; it usually disregards the more regular dimensions of life, such as work, family and intimate partnerships that may be related to the timing and seriousness of psychi...