Social Relations and the Life Course

GRAHAM ALLAN is Professor of Social Relations at Keele University. His main research interests focus on the sociology of informal relations, including the sociology of friendship, the sociology of the family and community sociology. - GILL JONES is Professor of Sociology at Keele University. She has conducted extensive research into the changing shape of young people's transitions to adulthood, and inequalities in youth.

• Introduction; G.Allan & G.Jones Gender and Generation: Changing Pension Inequalities Over Time; S.Arber PART ONE: CHILDREN AND PARENTS Past/Present/Future: Time and the Meaning of Change in the Family; V.Giles, J.Holland & J.Ribbens McCarthy 'The Never-Ending Story': Children's Gaze and the Unresolved Narrative of Their Parents' Divorce; J.Duncombe & D.Marsden Researching Childhood: Time, Memory and Method; R.Thomson, J.Holland, S.Henderson, S.McGrellis & S.Sharpe PART TWO: FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD FORMATION Young Motherhood: Family Transmission or Family Transitions?; S.Cheesbrough Young Adults' Household Formation: Individualisation, Identity and Home; L.Kenyon Negotiating Difference: Lesbian and Gay Transitions to Adulthood; G.Valentine; S.McNamee, T.Skelton & R.Butler Single, Twenty-Something and Seeking?; L.Jamieson; R.Stewart, Y.Li M.Anderson, F.Bechhofer & D.McCrone PART THREE: REFORMULATIONS Making it Their Home: In-migration, Time, Social Change and Belonging in a Rural Community; C.Maclean Family and Community Ties in Space and Time; F.Devine, N.Joanne Britton, P.Halfpenny & R.Mellor 'If you had a whole year of weekends it would be a very long day': Situating and Assessing Time in the Context of Paid and Unpaid Work; E.Fairhurst How Brief an Encounter? Time and Relationships, Pure or Otherwise; D.H.J.Morgan

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