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Anna-Karin Kollind
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Author_Ulla Bjornberg
Authority Ranking
autonomy versus togetherness in families
Care Ethics
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Conflict Resolution Strategies
Conflict Solving
domestic labour division
Effective Purchases
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Equality Matching
Expected Time Frames
External Stance
family relations
financial decision making couples
gender equality
gender role negotiation
Household Labour
Human Kind
individualisation
Internal Stance
intimacy and partnership studies
Joint Expenses
Joint Pooling
Justice Ethics
Manage Household Work
personal autonomy
Personal Development
Relationship Ethics
Romantic Love Ideal
Social Reproduction
Social Togetherness
sociology of relationships
Sour Dough
Swedish Family Policy
Swedish social policy analysis
Ulla BjRnberg
Vice Versa
Women's Educational Level
Women’s Educational Level
Product details
- ISBN 9780415343633
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 May 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Almost all women and men claim that gender equality within their relationships is the ideal. In practice, however, equality is not predominant within many couples and families. This book develops current debates about individualisation within families – particularly how partners understand and resolve tensions between the need for togetherness and personal autonomy, and how partners view and work with increasing gender equality.
Individualism and Families is based on a large Swedish study from two of the foremost European experts on the sociology of the family. The study looks particularly at partnering, parenting, intimacy, commitments, attitudes to finances and gender divisions of labour.
Ulla Björnberg is Professor of Sociology at the University of Göteborg, Sweden and is well known internationally as an expert in the comparative sociology of family life.
Anna-Karin Kollind is Lecturer and Researcher in Family Sociology, in the Department of Sociology, University of Göteborg. She has conducted research on stepfamilies, on social history of family counselling in Sweden and, with Ulla Björnberg, on dual-earner couples.
