Reshaping social life [antikvár]

Caught up in current social changes, we do not fully understand the reshaping of social life. In sociological analyses there is a conceptual gap between subjecrivities and social structural processes, and we face real difficulties in understanding social change and diversity. Through analysis of key areas of social life, this book develops a new and exciting resource for better understanding our changing social world. Reshaping Social Lift breaks with conventional approaches and reconnects the subjective and objective. It develops a new conceptual and analytic perspective with social relationality, interdependence and social context at its heart. The new perspective is developed through grounded analyses of empirical evidence, and draws on new data. The hook explores and analyses: • Significant changes in family forms, fertility, gender relations and commitments to employment, children and care now, with comparisons with developments at the start of the twentieth century. The book develops new analyses of the meshing of norms and social relations in contexts of change. • Diverse values, norms and perceptions of fairness. "These are analysed with respect to diversity over the life course, and in respect of gender, ethnicity and social class. Through analysis of context, the book offers new insights, and tackles puzzles of explanation. Reshaping Social Life offers a fascinating and innovative way of slicing into and reinterrogating our changing social world. It will become a landmark resource for students, scholars and researchers.