E D Widmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 8030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E D Widmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | E D |
| FAMILY NAME | Widmer |
| SIGNATURE | WIDMER E D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9079-884X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 396 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 76 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Sustainable marriage
A personal network analysis of remote workers
The rise of remote work has introduced new dynamics into the labor market, reshaping both where and how people work. While research on social networks has long emphasized the importance of personal contacts in job searches and status attainment, the rapid diffusion of remote work opens new and largely unexplored avenues of inquiry. Drawing on egocentric network data from 4010 workers and 22,052 professional and household ties, we examine how thre…
Family networks of lesbian and gay people in Switzerland
Lawyers’ strategies for gender equality in divorce negotiations
In divorces by mutual consent, the negotiation of the divorce agreement between spouses and their lawyers plays a crucial role in shaping the socioeconomic consequences of divorce. However, the interpretation of gender equality in divorce law remains contested. Lawyers must navigate tensions between their professional rationality, the legal framework, and the gendered organisation of the family. This study explores how Swiss lawyers interpret and…
Do Conflict Structures of Family Networks Matter for Loneliness in Later Life? The Case of a Cohort of Swiss Older Adults
This study explores the interconnection that exists between loneliness and conflict structures in older adults' family networks. Research has shown that close family dyads, such as marriages or partnerships, often generate conflict, with negative consequences for mental health. However, such dyads are embedded in larger family networks with their own conflict structures. When considering the development of loneliness, the significant role of thes…
Gender (in)equality in divorce in Switzerland
While family law in Western countries has changed dramatically in recent decades towards the ideal of gender equality, many inequalities remain with regard to the gendered outcomes of separation and divorce. Moreover, in family law, the move towards private ordering of legal issues in divorce has shifted the focus from the courts to lawyers, who have become central to the negotiation process in and out of court. Consequently, the interpretation o…
Being Your Own Boss
Young people today are expected to navigate their precarious careers in an entrepreneurial way. Self-employment is gaining ground on wage labour as one attractive strategy for winning the battle with precariousness. From Granovetter’s studies to the present day, one of the most prolific lines of research on the factors influencing the strategies of job insertion emphasises the key importance of personal networks. Based on social capital theory, t…
Social ties and social identification
Research highlights the positive impact of social connectedness on subjective well-being. In this paper, we test a model in which an identity-based mechanism links a structural form of connectedness (significant social ties) with two psychological well-being outcomes, life satisfaction and self-esteem. Using data from the LIVES Longitudinal Lausanne Youth Study (LIVES-LOLYS, N = 422), a longitudinal mediation path model tests direct and indirect …
Positive, negative, and ambivalent dyads and triads with family and friends
Changes in family composition and their effects on social capital in old age
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…
Configurational studies on family exchanges
The configurational studies of this special issue trace complex patterns of interdependencies existing among family members and beyond households. They focus on the functional connections among spouses, children, siblings, and other relatives living in a variety of households. The main goal of this special issue is to reveal how some key decisions and exchanges occurring in family dyads, such as the marital and parent–child dyads, are embedded wi…
The impact of friendship structures on marital quality of heterosexual couples
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 extent to which joint contacts, transitivity, and overlap in friendship structures affect various in…
Qui est je? » ou la difficile construction de soi dans l'hypermodernité
L'ouvrage de Vincent de Gaulejac Qui est « je » ? traite de la question de la construction de l'identité individuelle dans les sociétés de l'hypermodernité, caractérisées par l'inconstance des ressources et des cadres sociaux à partir desquels les individus peuvent produire leur vie. L'ouvrage commence par dénoncer l'utilisation normative de la notion de sujet, un sujet érigé par les idéologies de la modernité comme une figure prométhéenne, capab…
Analysing the effects of residential mobility behaviours on the composition of personal network in Switzerland
Individual life courses are marked by residential mobility often associated with family and workplace changes and therefore likely to be related to the types of personal relationships people develop and maintain. Evidence about the relationship between residential mobility behaviours over the life course and personal network composition is however scarce. This study investigates this relationship among 747 individuals living in Switzerland using …
Nuclear Family
The concept of the nuclear family is used to designate a socially meaningful unit of family members. In this entry, the use of the concept of the nuclear family is positioned in two perspectives. First, when defined by demographic criteria, the nuclear family refers to a residential unit. Second, when adopting a structural functionalist perspective, the nuclear family refers to a functional unit featuring specific interactions between genders and…
Patterns of support and conflict relationships in personal networks and perceived stress
This article investigates the association between personal networks and stress, both positively through support and negatively through conflict. In a representative sample of 755 individuals residing in Switzerland, each individual was asked to name people in their lives who they perceived as very important, as well as to report their mutual support and conflict interactions. First, the article develops and investigates a typology with five relat…
Modelling ambivalent triads in family research
This research focuses on ambivalence in family networks and presents a framework for investigating how triadic configurations, beyond specific dyads, may affect individual outcomes such as well-being. First, the paper introduces the ambivalent triad census, counting the frequencies of 18 non-isomorphic triads in which ties can be positive, negative, or ambivalent, in non-directed networks, and proposes the linear combinations of three theoretical…
Understanding the reconstruction of personal networks through residential migration trajectories
This article examines how residential trajectories influence the spatiality and composition of personal networks. Three mechanisms are considered: the addition of spatially close network members, the selection of spatially distant network members, and the substitution of spatially distant network members by spatially close ones. An ego-centred network analysis combined with sequence analysis of residential experiences is used to capture the perso…
Interactional Effects Between Relational and Cognitive Reserves on Decline in Executive Functioning
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
Gérald Bronner et Étienne Géhin, Le Danger sociologique
Macrostructural Conditions of Early Versus Late Institutional Inclusion of Same-Sex Couples in the Family
Same-sex registered partnership, marriage, and adoption open up the family as an institution to same-sex couples and, therefore, constitute a pathway to a broader definition of what is family. In the last 2 decades, a majority of Western countries have experienced an unprecedented institutional trend toward the provision of new rights to same-sex couples in the family. This swift process of institutional change has been, for the most part, accoun…
The role of adult socioeconomic and relational reserves regarding the effect of childhood misfortune on late-life depressive symptoms
Childhood socioeconomic disadvantage can be mitigated more easily over the life course than adverse childhood events and poor childhood health, especially in men. Perceived relational reserves work primarily as a protective force against late-life depressive symptoms and may be particularly important in the context of the cumulative effect of childhood adversities
Development of reserves over the life course and onset of vulnerability in later life
Conflict Structures in Family Networks of Older Adults and Their Relationship With Health-Related Quality of Life
This study explores the interrelationships between health-related quality of life and conflict structures in family networks of older adults. Data were derived from a sample of 2,858 elders (aged 65 years and older) from the Vivre/Leben/Vivere study, a large survey addressing family life and health conditions of older people in Switzerland. Conflict density in family networks and the betweenness centrality of respondents in family conflict are si…
Ambivalence in Later-Life Family Networks
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 level of intergenerational dyads. We used a subsample of 563 elders (aged 65 years and older) from the…
Attitudes toward nonmarital sex in 24 countries
Attitudes toward premarital sex, teenage sex, extramarital sex, and homosexual sex in 24 countries were compared. Challenging the simplistic notion that a permissive‐nonpermissive dichotomy is sufficient to describe variations across countries, the hypothesis that there are distinctive sexual regimes with different moral standards depending on the type of sexuality was examined. Cluster analysis reveals that there are six groupings of nations whi…
Multichannel Sequence Analysis Applied to Social Science Data
Applications of optimal matching analysis in the social sciences are typically based on sequences of specific social statuses that model the residential, family, or occupational trajectories of individuals. Despite the broadly recognized interdependence of these statuses, few attempts have been made to systematize the ways in which optimal matching analysis should be applied multidimensionally—that is, in an approach that takes into account multi…
Who are my family members? Bridging and binding social capital in family configurations
This study tests the hypothesis that individuals' identification of family members has an impact on the type of family-based social capital available to them. Data from a sample of college students from three universities in Switzerland ( N = 229), provided evidence that seven typical family configurations coexist. These configurations vary with respect to the importance given to partnerships, friendships, stepparents and parents' relatives. Fami…
Influence of Older Siblings on Initiation of Sexual Intercourse
This study uses data from the 1993 Philadelphia Teen Survey (via telephone) of 2080 adolescents and their parents (75% completion rate) to examine the factors affecting early initiation of sexual intercourse that are associated with sibling influence and gender after controlling for parental behavior and attitudes about adolescent sexuality. Data were gathered on two teenagers living in the same household in 218 cases and were analyzed for 183 pa…
Married Women's Employment over the Life Course
We analyze survey data from 23, largely industrialized countries onattitudes toward married women's employment atfour stages ofthefamily life course.Despite general consensus between countries, cluster andcorrespondence analyses show thatthe nations represent three distinct patterns of attitudes.There is only mixed support for the hypothesis thatpublic opinion conforms tostate welfare regime type.Instead, normative beliefs reflect both ageneral d…
How Much Does It Cost
One major methodological problem in analysis of sequence data is the determination of costs from which distances between sequences are derived. Although this problem is currently not optimally dealt with in the social sciences, it has some similarity with problems that have been solved in bioinformatics for three decades. In this article, the authors propose an optimization of substitution and deletion/insertion costs based on computational metho…
Ambivalence in Later-Life Family Networks
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 level of intergenerational dyads. We used a subsample of 563 elders (aged 65 years and older) from the…
Insiders and outsiders in stepfamilies
This study examines descriptions of families after separation and re-partnering, with a focus on family boundaries between those considered family and those excluded from it. Adults in stepfamilies may try to maintain a large number of family ties originating from various partnerships, or they may limit the recognition of their family to the members of their new household. Children, on the other hand, are encouraged to maintain contact with both …
Collecting family network data
Contemporary family contexts are characterized by a complex web of relationships, which goes beyond the household boundaries. Indeed, individuals develop meaningful relationships with non-residential family members, close friends, neighbors, colleagues, etc. Unfortunately, most surveys dealing with family ties focus on households and study a few dyads, mainly couple and parent–child relationships. This contribution addresses the use of social net…
Wishes or Constraints? Mothers' Labour Force Participation and its Motivation in Switzerland
The aim of this article is to estimate the impact of various factors related to role conflict theory and preference theory on the reduction of women's labour force participation after their transition to parenthood. Objective and subjective dimensions of women's labour force participation are assessed. The empirical test is based on a survey of couples with children in Switzerland. Results show that compared to structural factors associated with …
Embedded parenting? The influence of conjugal networks on parent-child relationships
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…
Family Networks
Family researchers have made extensive use of household survey data that predefine the boundaries of the family system and focus on a small number of family dyads. The complexity of contemporary family contexts that have emerged as a result of divorce and remarriage might not be well served by those techniques. This article shows that social network methods can improve existing methods used to study families
Married Women's Employment over the Life Course
We analyze survey data from 23, largely industrialized countries on attitudes toward married women's employment at four stages of the family life course. Despite general consensus between countries, cluster and correspondence analyses show that the nations represent three distinct patterns of attitudes. There is only mixed support for the hypothesis that public opinion conforms to state welfare regime type. Instead, normative beliefs reflect both…
Types of Conjugal Networks, Conjugal Conflict and Conjugal Quality
This article considers how various configurations of network characteristics affect conjugal quality. To investigate this issue, we use data from a large survey on conjugal functioning, based on 910 married couples with co-resident children living in Switzerland. Using reports from both male and female partners, we first empirically define six types of conjugal networks. We then explore the extent to which those types affect conjugal conflict and…
Development of reserves over the life course and onset of vulnerability in later life
Conflict Structures in Family Networks of Older Adults and Their Relationship With Health-Related Quality of Life
This study explores the interrelationships between health-related quality of life and conflict structures in family networks of older adults. Data were derived from a sample of 2,858 elders (aged 65 years and older) from the Vivre/Leben/Vivere study, a large survey addressing family life and health conditions of older people in Switzerland. Conflict density in family networks and the betweenness centrality of respondents in family conflict are si…
Analysing the effects of residential mobility behaviours on the composition of personal network in Switzerland
Individual life courses are marked by residential mobility often associated with family and workplace changes and therefore likely to be related to the types of personal relationships people develop and maintain. Evidence about the relationship between residential mobility behaviours over the life course and personal network composition is however scarce. This study investigates this relationship among 747 individuals living in Switzerland using …
Entre Contraintes Institutionnelle et Domestique
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…
Gendered Occupational Shifts in the Transition to Parenthood
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…
From Support to Control
The topic of conjugal quality provides an empirical illustration of the relevance of the configurational perspective on families. On the basis of a longitudinal sample of 1,534 couples living in Switzerland drawn from the study "Social Stratification, Cohesion and Conflict in Contemporary Families," we show that various types of interdependencies with relatives and friends promote distinct conflict management strategies for couples as well as une…
Les représentations sociales de la justice pénale
Cet article vise à rendre compte des conceptions de la sanction pénale dans les mentalités contemporaines. Basée sur un échantillon représentatif de la population adulte de la Suisse francophone (N = 1881), la recherche empirique a permis de dégager trois « philosophies» distinctes. Le « prospectivisme» justifie principalement la sanction pénale par la réinsertion de l'individu dans la société. Les réponses aux infractions sont modérées et tourné…
Positive, negative, and ambivalent dyads and triads with family and friends
Social Capital in Wide Family Contexts
Using a sociometric approach to family relationships, we test the hypothesis that the way individuals define their family context has a strong impact on the types and amount of social capital available to them. Binding social capital is defined in terms of network closure, i.e. a redundancy of ties within a group. From this perspective, social capital is to be found in groups with a high density of connections, network closure enhancing expectati…
Do Older Siblings Make a Difference? The Effects of Older Sibling Support and Older Sibling Adjustment on the Adjustment of Socially Disadvantaged Adolescents
Based on a definition of social support as a buffer against stressful events or situations (Kaplan, Cassel, & Gore, 1977), we hypothesize that support from well-adjusted older siblings is associated with positive developmental adjustment for disadvantaged inner-city adolescents. Using 148 matched pairs of independent interviews of cohabiting siblings from an urban area, this analysis investigates the association between older sibling support, old…
Analysing the Role of Social Visits on Migrants’ Social Capital
There are concerns that migrants may be embedded in far-flung networks with support being less collective. The spatial dispersion of their relatives and friends would result in fragmented networks with lower solidarity and lower mutual trust than densely connected networks based on geographical proximity. This may be particularly true for migrants who rarely meet their relatives and friends face-to-face. Yet, it is unclear what role, if any, dist…
The First Chinese Embassy to the West
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…
The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Peking During the Eighteenth Century
The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Peking
The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Peking during the Eighteenth Century
Influence of Older Siblings on Initiation of Sexual Intercourse
This study uses data from the 1993 Philadelphia Teen Survey (via telephone) of 2080 adolescents and their parents (75% completion rate) to examine the factors affecting early initiation of sexual intercourse that are associated with sibling influence and gender after controlling for parental behavior and attitudes about adolescent sexuality. Data were gathered on two teenagers living in the same household in 218 cases and were analyzed for 183 pa…
Attitudes toward nonmarital sex in 24 countries
Attitudes toward premarital sex, teenage sex, extramarital sex, and homosexual sex in 24 countries were compared. Challenging the simplistic notion that a permissive‐nonpermissive dichotomy is sufficient to describe variations across countries, the hypothesis that there are distinctive sexual regimes with different moral standards depending on the type of sexuality was examined. Cluster analysis reveals that there are six groupings of nations whi…
Family contexts as cognitive networks
With the permanence of strong emotional bonds between adults and their siblings and parents, with the rise of divorce, with the extension of remarriage, and with the development of pseudo‐kinship ties, complex family groupings have emerged. Orientational family members (Kuhn, 1964) are likely to be perceived as being included in relatively large and unbounded family contexts. To deal with the complexity of those contexts, one needs to develop an …
Cognitive Aspects of Step- Terms in American Kinship
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…
Do Older Siblings Make a Difference? The Effects of Older Sibling Support and Older Sibling Adjustment on the Adjustment of Socially Disadvantaged Adolescents
Based on a definition of social support as a buffer against stressful events or situations (Kaplan, Cassel, & Gore, 1977), we hypothesize that support from well-adjusted older siblings is associated with positive developmental adjustment for disadvantaged inner-city adolescents. Using 148 matched pairs of independent interviews of cohabiting siblings from an urban area, this analysis investigates the association between older sibling support, old…
Louis Chauvel, Le destin des générations. Structure sociale et cohortes en France au xxe siècle
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…
Married Women's Employment over the Life Course
We analyze survey data from 23, largely industrialized countries onattitudes toward married women's employment atfour stages ofthefamily life course.Despite general consensus between countries, cluster andcorrespondence analyses show thatthe nations represent three distinct patterns of attitudes.There is only mixed support for the hypothesis thatpublic opinion conforms tostate welfare regime type.Instead, normative beliefs reflect both ageneral d…
Les relations fraternelles des adolescents
Family Networks
Family researchers have made extensive use of household survey data that predefine the boundaries of the family system and focus on a small number of family dyads. The complexity of contemporary family contexts that have emerged as a result of divorce and remarriage might not be well served by those techniques. This article shows that social network methods can improve existing methods used to study families
Married Women's Employment over the Life Course
We analyze survey data from 23, largely industrialized countries on attitudes toward married women's employment at four stages of the family life course. Despite general consensus between countries, cluster and correspondence analyses show that the nations represent three distinct patterns of attitudes. There is only mixed support for the hypothesis that public opinion conforms to state welfare regime type. Instead, normative beliefs reflect both…
Les représentations sociales de la justice pénale
Cet article vise à rendre compte des conceptions de la sanction pénale dans les mentalités contemporaines. Basée sur un échantillon représentatif de la population adulte de la Suisse francophone (N = 1881), la recherche empirique a permis de dégager trois « philosophies» distinctes. Le « prospectivisme» justifie principalement la sanction pénale par la réinsertion de l'individu dans la société. Les réponses aux infractions sont modérées et tourné…
Du sentiment d'insécurité aux représentations de la délinquance
Dans la dernière décennie, une « préoccupation sociale» face à la délinquance est apparue dans de nombreux pays occidentaux suite à la diffusion, dans de larges pans de leur population, d’un sentiment d’insécurité personnelle, accompagné de la perception d’une très sérieuse augmentation de la délinquance et du risque de victimation. La Suisse a longtemps fait figure d’un pays épargné par la délinquance. Cette perception irénique persiste-t-elle, …
Quelle pluralisation des relations familiales
Dans les années soixante-dix et quatre-vingt, nombre de recherches ont mis en évidence la variété des styles d’interactions familiales caractérisant la société contemporaine. Quels sont ceux d’entre eux qui perdurent aujourd’hui ? Comment s’intègrent-ils dans la structure sociale ? Quels problèmes, quels conflits entraînent-ils ? Cet article répond à ces questions en se fondant sur un grand échantillon représentatif, qui permet de prendre en comp…
Quelle pluralisation des relations familiales? Conflits, styles d'interactions conjugales et milieu social
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
Types of Conjugal Networks, Conjugal Conflict and Conjugal Quality
This article considers how various configurations of network characteristics affect conjugal quality. To investigate this issue, we use data from a large survey on conjugal functioning, based on 910 married couples with co-resident children living in Switzerland. Using reports from both male and female partners, we first empirically define six types of conjugal networks. We then explore the extent to which those types affect conjugal conflict and…
L'acquisition de la motilité au sein des familles
Le capital de mobilité ou « motilité » est une dimension essentielle de l’insertion sociale dans les sociétés de la modernité avancée, confrontées à une multiplication des manières de se déplacer dans le temps et l’espace, donc d’assurer la coprésence des êtres ou des acteurs. Il y a actuellement choix stratégiques et distinction des mobilités là où il y avait autrefois contrainte spatiale. Partant du postulat que la motilité est un bon analyseur…
Embedded parenting? The influence of conjugal networks on parent-child relationships
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
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
Who are my family members? Bridging and binding social capital in family configurations
This study tests the hypothesis that individuals' identification of family members has an impact on the type of family-based social capital available to them. Data from a sample of college students from three universities in Switzerland ( N = 229), provided evidence that seven typical family configurations coexist. These configurations vary with respect to the importance given to partnerships, friendships, stepparents and parents' relatives. Fami…
What Pluralization of Family Relations
In the 1970s and 1980s, a number of studies brought to light a variety of family interaction styles characteristic of contemporary societies. Which of them have lasted? How are they related to the social structure? What problems and conflicts are they likely to bring about? This article aims to answer those questions on the basis of a large representative sample indicating couples’ social and generational characteristics. Five styles were empiric…
Entre Contraintes Institutionnelle et Domestique
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…
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