Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- one Introduction: from biography to social policy
- two Suffering the fall of the Berlin Wall: blocked journeys in Spain and Germany
- three Guilty victims: social exclusion in contemporary France
- four Premodernity and postmodernity in Southern Italy
- five A tale of class differences in contemporary Britain
- six The shortest way out of work
- seven Male journeys into uncertainty
- eight Love and emancipation
- nine Female identities in late modernity
- ten Gender and family in the development of Greek state and society
- eleven Corporatist structures and cultural diversity in Sweden
- twelve ‘Migrants’: a target-category for social policy? Experiences of first-generation migration
- thirteen Second-generation transcultural lives
- fourteen Biographical work and agency innovation: relationships, reflexivity and theory-in-use
- fifteen Conclusions: social transitions and biographical work
- Appendices on method
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- one Introduction: from biography to social policy
- two Suffering the fall of the Berlin Wall: blocked journeys in Spain and Germany
- three Guilty victims: social exclusion in contemporary France
- four Premodernity and postmodernity in Southern Italy
- five A tale of class differences in contemporary Britain
- six The shortest way out of work
- seven Male journeys into uncertainty
- eight Love and emancipation
- nine Female identities in late modernity
- ten Gender and family in the development of Greek state and society
- eleven Corporatist structures and cultural diversity in Sweden
- twelve ‘Migrants’: a target-category for social policy? Experiences of first-generation migration
- thirteen Second-generation transcultural lives
- fourteen Biographical work and agency innovation: relationships, reflexivity and theory-in-use
- fifteen Conclusions: social transitions and biographical work
- Appendices on method
- Index
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- Biography and Social Exclusion in EuropeExperiences and Life Journeys, pp. viPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2002