Families and Personal Networks

Karin Wall is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal.Eric D. Widmer is Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Geneva, Switzerland.Jacques–Antoine Gauthier is Senior Lecturer at the Life Course and Social Inequality Research Centre, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.Vida Česnuitytė is Lecturer at Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania.Rita Gouveia is Post–doctoral Fellow at the NCCR–LIVES, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

• 1. Introduction; Eric D. Widmer, Jacques–Antoine Gauthier, Karin Wall, Vida Česnuitytė and Rita Gouveia.- 2. Contextualising Personal Networks Across Birth Cohorts and Countries; Vasco Ramos, Vida Česnuitytė, Karin Wall, and Dominique Joye.- 3. A First Portrait of Personal Networks in a Comparative Perspective; Rita Gouveia, Gaëlle Aeby, and Vida Česnuitytė.- 4. Changing Meanings of Family in Personal Relationships: a Comparative Perspective; Karin Wall, Rita Gouveia, Gaëlle Aeby, and Vida Česnuitytė.- 5. Mapping the Plurality of Personal Configurations; Gaëlle Aeby, Eric D. Widmer, Vida Česnuitytė, and Rita Gouveia.- 6. Understanding Personal Networks as Social Capital; Eric D. Widmer, Rita Gouveia, Gaëlle Aeby, and Vida Česnuitytė.- 7. Linking Family Trajectories and Personal Networks; Jacques–Antoine Gauthier, Gaëlle Aeby, Vasco Ramos, and Vida Česnuitytė.- 8. Conclusions; Karin Wall, Vida Česnuitytė, Eric D. Widmer, and Jacques–Antoine Gauthier.