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January 2015 - May 2015
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The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted across Europe since its establishment in 2001. Every two years, it collects data from face-to-face interviews with newly selected, cross-sectional samples. Over the years, ESS has been asserted as an important pan-European research infrastructur...
Análise Social: 60 Anos
In this research, we considered how various structural aspects of friendship networks relate to marital quality according to gender. To investigate this issue, we drew on data from a large longitudinal survey on marital functioning based on 903 heterosexual couples living in Switzerland. Using reports from male and female partners, we explored the...
Throughout the world, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted family routines, relationships, projects and sociability, threatening the health, income, social cohesion, and well-being of individuals and their families. Lockdown restrictions imposed during the first wave of the pandemic challenged the theories, concepts, and methods used by family sociologi...
Results from an online survey with about 8000 respondents concerning their living conditions under the second COVID 19 lockdown between February-Match 2021 in Portugal.
‘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...
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Examine and compare the attitudes of women and men in different age groups toward types of children's residence after divorce/separation, considering their attitudes toward the division of labor in the family (DLF).
Background
This study draws on a multidimensional approach to attitudinal change in DLF and in the division of parental inv...
As políticas públicas em matéria de licenças para cuidar de filhos menores sofreram alterações importantes nas últimas décadas. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as atitudes da população portuguesa face às licenças parentais com base no inquérito ISSP sobre família e género de 2014. Partindo de várias perspetivas teóricas, identificam-se os fatore...
In later life, changing conditions related to health, partnership, and economic status may trigger not only support but also conflict and ambivalence, with the consequent renegotiation of family ties. The aim of this study is to investigate both conflict and emotional support in the family networks of older adults, taking the research beyond the le...
Family relationships in late modernity are considered to be embedded in wider processes of closeness and commitment, which go beyond blood and alliance principles. The aim of this chapter is to identify who is perceived as family in personal relationships and to examine the overlap between personal configurations and family networks. Despite some b...
The main aim of this chapter is to compare the social capital structures produced by personal networks in Portugal, Switzerland, and Lithuania. On the one hand, we hypothesise that the type of social capital is primarily associated with the composition of personal configurations. On the other hand, we also expect that social capital structures are...
In order to understand how changing trends of individualization and pluralization have been affecting personal networks in the three countries, this chapter provides an overview of the core characteristics of personal networks in Portugal, Switzerland, and Lithuania. First, we compare the size and composition of personal networks across the three c...
The aim of this chapter is to map the variety of personal configurations by focusing on personal ties regarded as important. The configurational perspective emphasizes the inclusion of different kinds of close ties that go beyond kin, co-residence, and genealogical proximity in personal relationships. In order to identify the diversity of arrangeme...
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
For a long time, the household unit—that is, the ‘ménage’—has been a privileged doorway to study family and personal life (Laslett 1972; Wall 2005). Yet, the transformations of family arrangements associated with divorce, informal cohabitation, migration, and ageing alongside the pluralization of the life course have been challenging the heuristic...
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 paper is to investigate the pluralization of personal networks in Portugal through a life- course perspective. Grounded on a representative sample of individuals born in three cohorts, we aim to map the diversity of configurations of personal networks based on the types of ties included. Through a cluster analysis, we identified sev...
La présente recherche a été initiée par le Décanat de la Faculté des Sciences de la Société (SdS). Elle vise à éclairer les débouchés vers lesquels mènent les formations que la Faculté propose, en reprenant en grande partie le format des enquêtes réalisées par le Département de Sociologie sur ses anciens étudiants dans les années 1990 et 2000. Plus...
Personal networks are paramount for the wellbeing and social integration of individuals, by providing a sense of belonging though the multidimensional interdependencies that occur within configurations. These interdependencies can be symbolic and/or material, ranging from expressive support - such as daily contact or giving advices and comfort - to...
Personal relationships are today less dependent on marriage and blood ties, with commitments going far beyond the nuclear co-resident family to include kin, non-kin and ex-kin. The aim of this presentation is to examine the meanings of family ties by exploring the changing boundaries within kinship and a wider array of affinities, in three European...
Personal relationships are today less dependent on marriage and blood ties, with commitments going far beyond the nuclear co-resident family to include kin, non-kin and ex-kin. The aim of this article is to examine the meanings of family bonds by exploring the changing boundaries between kinship ties and a wider array of affinities, in a Southern E...
Modernity has often been understood as being irreconcilable with the persistence of kinship. Personal networks are said to have become less centred on kinship, and instead, more contracted and individualised. Portugal, a country that has witnessed tremendous social and economic change
in the last four decades, was selected as the subject of this st...
Modernity has often been understood as being irreconcilable with the persistence of kinship. Personal networks are said to have become less centred on kinship, and instead, more contracted and individualised. Portugal, a country that has witnessed tremendous social and economic change in the last four decades, was selected as the subject of this st...
Legal innovation is responsible for major transformations in societies. Taking the press as a mediator between the national and local levels, this article addresses the role it plays in the presentation of new laws governing protected areas. A content analysis comparing the representation in the national and the regional presses of both the Natura...
