This volume provides readers with recent sociological approaches to family understanding, theorising and practices within the context of continuities and change, both across generations and during individual life courses. The contributors uniquely investigate the friction between persisting family needs and changing circumstances, between holding on to traditional family norms and adapting to fast-changing demands. Authors from nine countries develop and apply innovative theoretical and methodological approaches for a more differentiated description of European family lives at the beginning of the 21st century, and show that family sociology has achieved significant commonalities across national borders in Europe, thus helping our understanding of complex family realities.

The book will be essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in family and intimate life, family sociology and policy, sociology and gender studies.

culture
divorce
adulthood
childhood
parenting
sociology
fathers
mothers
life course
individualisation

• Introduction to Family Continuity and Change

• Theoretical Perspectives on Family Change

• Historical Patterns of Family Life

• Cultural Traditions and Continuity

• Demographic Shifts and Family Structure

• Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage Trends

• Changing Gender Roles in the Family

• Technology and Its Impact on Family Life

• Economic Influences on Family Stability

• Migration and Transnational Families

• Intergenerational Relationships and Legacy

• Family Resilience and Adaptation

• Policy and Legal Influences on Families

• The Future of the Family: Continuity or Transformation?

• Mykolas Romeris University , Vilnius, Lithuania

  Vida Česnuitytė

• Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany

  Detlev Lück

• University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

  Eric D. Widmer

Book Title
Family Continuity and Change

Book Subtitle
Contemporary European Perspectives

Editors
Vida Česnuitytė, Detlev Lück, Eric D. Widmer

Series Title
Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59028-2

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan London

eBook Packages
Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

Copyright Information
The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

Hardcover ISBN
978-1-137-59027-5
Published: 19 January 2017

eBook ISBN
978-1-137-59028-2
Published: 12 January 2017

Series ISSN
2731-6440

Series E-ISSN
2731-6459

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
XVI, 346

Number of Illustrations
53 illustrations in colour

Topics
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Family, European Culture