Eric Widmer

Biographic Data

ID191642
NAMEEric Widmer
GIVEN NAMESEric
FAMILY NAMEWidmer
SIGNATUREWIDMER E
AFFILIATIONSGeneva University and NCCR LIVES, Switzerland
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS37
AUTHOR COUNT24
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX4

  • Changes in family composition and their effects on social capital in old age

    Open AccessJ Sauter, E D Widmer et al.ARTICLEAgeing and Society2023Cited by: 1References: 59

    Previous studies have shown that family networks evolve over time. Nonetheless, little research has linked family expansion or shrinking to the levels of available family-based social capital in older adults’ family networks. To address this research gap, this paper explores the following question: to what extent are changes in family composition and family-related life events associated with current levels of family-based social capital in later…

  • Interactional Effects Between Relational and Cognitive Reserves on Decline in Executive Functioning

    Open AccessJulia Sauter, E D Widmer et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2020References: 6

    The present longitudinal study provides evidence for the interaction between cognitive and relational reserves. This confirms the hypothesis that reserves from different domains are intertwined and their combined effects contribute to less cognitive decline in old age

  • Development of reserves over the life course and onset of vulnerability in later life

    Open AccessStéphane Cullati, Matthias Kliegel et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2018Cited by: 7References: 115

  • Educational Expansion, Family Interactions, and the Open Society

    Open AccessRolf Becker, Ben Jann et al.ARTICLESwiss Journal of Sociology2017

    Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications

  • Gendered Occupational Shifts in the Transition to Parenthood

    Open AccessFrancesco Giudici, E D Widmer et al.ARTICLESociology2017Cited by: 5References: 54

    This article investigates the influence of personal networks on changes of occupational rates of men and women becoming parents. It discusses and measures the effects of various interconnected dimensions of network structures and compositions, such as density, degree of overlap between partners' networks, geographical distance between network members, and types of relations (family, friendship, or others). A set of longitudinal analyses on 235 co…

  • Family Configurations

    E D Widmer, Eric WidmerBOOKFamily Configurations2016

    Family Configurations develops current scholarship on families and intimate lives by demonstrating that family relationships, far from being fluid and inconsequential, are more structured and committed than ever. Based on a series of empirical studies carried out in the US and Europe, this volume reveals the diversity of family relationships that emerge as a result of various key family issues, emphasizing the supportive and disruptive interdepen…

  • A sociological assessment of conjugal conflict

    Open AccessFrancesco Giudici, E D Widmer et al.ARTICLESociologia Problemas e Práticas2016Cited by: 1References: 7

    A sociological explanation of conjugal conflict was often stressed but seldom empirically tested. Based on a two-wave longitudinal dataset of 1534 women in heterosexual relationships, we use structural equation modeling (SEM) to measure the impact of the division of household labor, individualism and conjugal closure on the likelihood of conjugal conflicts. Results indicate that conjugal individualism has a major impact, division of household lab…

  • Families and Kinship in Contemporary Europe

    Open AccessEric Widmer, Riitta Jallinoja et al.BOOKFamilies and Kinship in…2011

    Instead of seeing the family as a 'monolithic' entity, as though separate from its surroundings, this new approach draws attention to assemblages of various types that in different constellations and

  • Lieux d’Europe

    Open AccessWladimir Berelowitch, Denis Bertholet et al.BOOKLieux d’Europe2008

    Alors qu’elle s’interroge, se regarde et se raconte depuis des siècles, l’Europe demeure perplexe au miroir de ses inépuisables productions. Elle est à l’étroit dans les paragraphes étriqués des documents juridiques, elle tend à se soustraire aux appropriations idéologiques de toutes obédiences, dépasse toujours les images d’elle-même qu’elle crée sans relâche, échappe à sa propre histoire comme à ses historiens, à ses géographes et à tous ceux q…

  • Les lieux de science de l’Europe moderne

    Open AccessRené Sigrist, E D Widmer et al.CHAPTERLieux d’Europe2008

  • Embedded parenting? The influence of conjugal networks on parent-child relationships

    Open AccessE D Widmer, Eric Widmer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2006Cited by: 9References: 38

    Data from a large survey of family functioning in Switzerland explore the extent to which various types of conjugal networks affect parenting and parent-child relationships (e.g., problems in assuming parental roles, parent-child disagreements, quality of parent-child relationships, and parental worries about the child). Results show that conjugal networks have significant indirect and direct effects on parent-child relationships but no buffering…

  • Entre contraintes institutionnelle et domestique

    Open AccessRené Lévy, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier et al.ARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of Sociology2006Cited by: 2

    René Levy, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Eric Widmer, Entre contraintes institutionnelle et domestique: Les parcours de vie masculins et féminins en Suisse, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Autumn, 2006), pp. 461-489

  • Entre Contraintes Institutionnelle et Domestique

    Open AccessPhil Levy René, Phil Levy Ren& Eacute et al.ARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of Sociology2006Cited by: 6

    Cette étude analyse les trajectoires professionnelles des femmes et des hommes vivant en Suisse à la lumière des hypothèses de standardisation, d'individualisation et de sexuation des parcours de vie, souvent associées à la montée puis à l'affaiblissement de l'Etat social, concomitant à l'influence croissante des politiques néolibérales. Elle se base sur les données rétrospectives du Panel suisse de ménages, récoltées en 2002. Des analyses de séq…

  • Types of Conjugal Interactions and Conjugal Conflict

    E D Widmer, Eric Widmer et al.ARTICLEEuropean Sociological Review2006Cited by: 1References: 4

    This paper deals with the diversity of contemporary family interactions and its consequences with regard to conjugal conflict, on the basis of a large and longitudinal survey on married and unmarried couples, conducted in Switzerland at the turn of the millennium. Using cluster analysis, we first define five types of conjugal interaction (Bastion, Companionship, Cocoon, Association, and Parallel). The types of conjugal interactions characterized …

  • Quelle pluralisation des relations familiales? Conflits, styles d'interactions conjugales et milieu social

    E D Widmer, Eric Widmer et al.ARTICLERevue Française de Sociologie2004Cited by: 2

    Jean Kellerhals, , Quelle pluralisation des relations familiales? Conflits, styles d'interactions conjugales et milieu social, Revue française de sociologie, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 2004), pp. 37-67

  • Valérie Feschet, Les papiers de famille. Une ethnologie de l’écriture, de la mémoire et des sentiments en Provence alpine

    Open AccessEric WidmerARTICLEL Homme2000

    histoire sociale, la mmoire familiale, et, au-del, sur les relations familiales face au changement socioculturel

  • Louis Chauvel, Le destin des générations. Structure sociale et cohortes en France au xxe siècle

    Open AccessE D Widmer, Eric WidmerARTICLEL Homme2000

    Une longue tradition d’analyse des inégalités liées aux classes sociales existe en sociologie. Plus récemment, les inégalités entre les sexes ont fait l’objet d’une attention grandissante. L’ouvrage de Louis Chauvel présente des inégalités qui ont jusqu’ici échappées peu ou prou à l’attention des sociologues : celles entre les générations de ce siècle en France. La date de naissance, en effet, est susceptible d’avoir une influence significative s…

  • Les relations fraternelles des adolescents

    Jean-Hugues Déchaux, E D Widmer et al.ARTICLERevue Française de Sociologie2000

  • Cognitive Aspects of Step- Terms in American Kinship

    Open AccessE D Widmer, Eric Widmer et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1999Cited by: 3References: 15

    In this article we extend the study of judged similarity among kinship terms from consanguineal to stepterms. Based on a sample of college students, we present a Euclidean representation of American kinship terms that shows that the distinction between consanguineal terms and step- terms is crucial. This representation matches predictions from the componential analysis paradigm and is shared by respondents of both genders with different ethniciti…

  • The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Peking during the Eighteenth Century

    C M Foust, E D Widmer et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1978

  • The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Peking

    Donald W Treadgold, E D Widmer et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1977

  • The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Peking During the Eighteenth Century

    John A White, Eric WidmerARTICLEPacific Affairs1977

  • The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Peking During the Eighteenth Century

    Open AccessE D Widmer, Eric Widmer et al.BOOKThe Russian Ecclesiastical…1976

  • The First Chinese Embassy to the West

    E D Widmer, Eric Widmer et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies1975

    Book Review| February 01 1975 The First Chinese Embassy to the West: The Journals of Kuo Sung-t'ao, Liu Hsi-hung and Chang Te-yi The First Chinese Embassy to the West: The Journals of Kuo Sung-t'ao, Liu Hsi-hung and Chang Te-yi. Translated by J. D. Frodsham. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. lxv, 222 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $13.00. Eric Widmer Eric Widmer Brown University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Goo…