Biography and Social Exclusion in Europe: Experiences and Life Journeys

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Biography and Social Exclusion in Europe

Experiences and Life Journeys

Throughout Europe, standardised approaches to social policy and practice are being radically questioned and modified. Beginning from the narrative detail of individual lives, this book re-thinks welfare predicaments, emphasising gender, generation, ethnic and class implications of economic and social deregulation.

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Experiences and Life Journeys

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

Abbreviations
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vi

Notes on contributors
pp vii-x

one - Introduction: from biography to social policy
pp 1-22

two - Suffering the fall of the Berlin Wall: blocked journeys in Spain and Germany
pp 23-40

three - Guilty victims: social exclusion in contemporary France
pp 41-60

four - Premodernity and postmodernity in Southern Italy
pp 61-76

five - A tale of class differences in contemporary Britain
pp 77-96

six - The shortest way out of work
pp 97-114

seven - Male journeys into uncertainty
pp 115-130

eight - Love and emancipation
pp 131-150

nine - Female identities in late modernity
pp 151-174

ten - Gender and family in the development of Greek state and society
pp 175-192

eleven - Corporatist structures and cultural diversity in Sweden
pp 193-212

twelve - ‘Migrants’: a target-category for social policy? Experiences of first-generation migration
pp 213-228

thirteen - Second-generation transcultural lives
pp 229-246

fourteen - Biographical work and agency innovation: relationships, reflexivity and theory-in-use
pp 247-268

fifteen - Conclusions: social transitions and biographical work
pp 269-288

Appendices on method

A - Discovering biographies in changing social worlds: the biographical–interpretive method
pp 289-308

B - Historicising the ‘socio’, theory, and the constant comparative method
pp 309-328

Index
pp 329-340

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