Download or read book Families with Small Children in Eastern and Western Europe written by Ulla Björnberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1997, the aim of this study is to address comparative perspectives on gender and family life in western and eastern Europe. The focus is on the way in which family policy measures relating to the reconciliation of work and family are viewed and used by employed parents with small children. Another purpose is to consider how compatibility between family and employment is perceived by the parents, and its implications for partnership, gender balance, and parent-child relationships. The book also discusses the consequences and lessons which can be drawn from these studies for the purpose of family policy initiatives.
Download or read book And They Lived Happily Ever After written by Helene Carlb„ck and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some papers were presented at the conference "Family, Marriage and Parenthood in Eastern Europe, Russia and Sweden" held September 2008 in Sweden.
Download or read book Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective written by Bron B Ingoldsby and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book Women s Employment in a Comparative Perspective written by Liset Van Dijk and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These comparative studies by internationally-known scholars in the United States, Hungary, Germany, and the Netherlands provide a cross-national examination of substantially differing circumstances--in hours, earnings, job level, childcare availability, parental leave, and the like--of women's employment. The book's dual focus on micro and macro approaches clarifies the extent to which these variances can be ascribed to differences in the institutional context of employment or to the individual characteristics of female employees. It thereby provides a valuable contribution both to gender studies and to studies on the sociology of work. Women's employment changed dramatically during the second half of the twentieth century. Countries in the northern hemisphere have faced similar trends in labor and employment, yet there are still many contrasts between them when it comes to women's work. In this volume, women's employment is studied in different institutional, structural, and social settings, with the intention of exploring the causes of the differences and similarities in women's employment in different countries and at different times. Three perspectives are used: the macro approach, which provides a thorough and focused understanding of the influence of the institutional context on women's work; the micro approach, which gives insight into the employment behavior of individual women who live in the same social or institutional context; and the macro-micro approach, which makes clear the relative importance to women's work of both individual characteristics and institutional context. While a good deal of information is available on women's employment, a cross-national comparison over time has been lacking. This book fills that all-important niche. Women's Employment in a Comparative Perspective thus has a special relevance for economists as well as sociologists and social work specialists. Tanja Van der Lippe is assistant professor of sociology at the Research School ICS of Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Liset Van Dijk is senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Nivel.
Download or read book Individualism and Families written by Ulla Björnberg and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individualism and Families develops current debates about individualism 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. The book is based on a large Swedish study from one of the foremost European experts on the sociology of the family.
Download or read book Families in Eastern Europe written by Mihaela Robila and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive analysis of family issues in Eastern Europe. Bringing together scholars from 14 Eastern European countries, this book explains family processes in that particular country focusing on the historic, social and economic contexts and the impact they have on families. It also provides demographic information about families.
Download or read book Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women written by Cheris Kramarae and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-04-16 with total page 2050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a full list of entries and contributors, sample entries, and more, visit the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women website. Featuring comprehensive global coverage of women's issues and concerns, from violence and sexuality to feminist theory, the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women brings the field into the new millennium. In over 900 signed A-Z entries from US and Europe, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, and the Middle East, the women who pioneered the field from its inception collaborate with the new scholars who are shaping the future of women's studies to create the new standard work for anyone who needs information on women-related subjects.
Download or read book The World written by Göran Therborn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the world of the 21st century like now that the centrality of the West is no longer given? How were the societies and cultures of today's world together with their interconnections forged, and what is driving human society in our times? In short, what is the state of the world today as we enter the second decade of the 21st century? This is the first book which deals with planetary human society as whole. It is a beginner's guide to the world after the West and after globalization, compact, portable, and jargon-free. It is aimed at everybody who, even with experience, has kept a beginner's curiosity of the world, to everybody who does not know everything they want to know about it, about the good, the evil, and the salvation of the world. It lays bare the socio-cultural geology of the world, its major civilizations, its historical waves of globalization, its family-sex-gender systems, and its pathways to modernity. It outlines the dynamics of the world, its basic drives, the contours of its most important global and sub-global processes. It presents the big team players on the world stage, populous as well as rich countries, missions and movements as well corporations and cities. It traces the life-courses of men and women on all the continents, from their birth and childhood to their old age, and their funeral.
Download or read book Western Europe written by Max Schulze and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new text offers a clearly structured introduction to the economic and social development of Western Europe since the Second World War. A team of experts explore key aspects of postwar Europe's economy and society in a number of thematic chapters, with a regional and strongly comparative focus and these are followed by specific national studies.
Download or read book Social Work in Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building Brands in Asia written by Tim Andrews and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Foundations -- 2. Building brands: meaning, value, creation and clothing -- Understanding brand value -- Defining the brand -- Brand constituents -- Being the brand -- Clothing the brand -- 3. Developing the brand: focus, consistency and alignment -- Focus -- Consistency and the delivered promise -- Organizational consistency -- The frontline -- Organizing talent for brand consistency -- Frames for alignment: the VCI model -- 4. Marketing the brand: image extension and cross-border development -- Brand marketing -- Brand extensions: leverage and synergy -- Auditing the brand: the KUBE diagnostic -- Horizontal extensions -- Vertical brand extensions -- Unintended extensions -- Brand architecture -- Branding across borders -- International market entry -- International marketing adaptation -- 5. Understanding Asia: from the inside and out -- Asian hardware -- Asian software -- Asian socio-cultural norms: from the 'outside-in' -- Asian culture from the inside-out -- Corruption: elephants in the living room -- Illustrations -- 6. Brand expressions I: consumer products -- Building and competing -- Frontlining -- Marketing the brand -- CSR, ethics and (re-)gaining trust -- 7. Brand expressions II: services -- The hotel -- The hospital -- The airline -- IFM (integrated facilities management) -- AOS (any other service) -- 8. Postscript: destination Asia -- Revealing -- Building -- Communication -- Delivery -- References -- Index.
Download or read book Youth and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union written by Charles Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two decades have now passed since the revolutions of 1989 swept through Eastern Europe and precipitated the collapse of state socialism across the region, engendering a period of massive social, economic and political transformation. This book explores the ways in which young people growing up in post-socialist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union negotiate a range of identities and transitions in their personal lives against a backdrop of thoroughgoing transformation in their societies. Drawing upon original empirical research in a range of countries, the book's contributors explore the various freedoms and insecurities that have accompanied neo-liberal transformation in post-socialist countries - in spheres as diverse as consumption, migration, political participation, volunteering, employment and family formation - and examine the ways in which they have begun to re-shape different aspects of young people's lives. In addition, while 'social change' is a central theme of the issue, all of the chapters in the collection indicate that the new opportunities and risks faced by young people continue both to underpin and to be shaped by familiar social and spatial divisions, not only within and between the countries addressed, but also between 'East' and 'West'. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Youth Studies.
Download or read book Inequalities in Young People s Health written by Candace Currie and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2008-07-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This international report from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) World Health Organization collaborative cross-national study [...] presents the key findings on patterns of health among young people in 41 countries and regions across Europe and North America. The document presents a status report on health, health-related behaviour and the social contexts of young people's health in 2005/2006 and provides the latest evidence from a unique cross-national study on the well-being of young people in industrialized nations. [...] In addition to presenting key statistics on young people's health, this report has a special focus on health inequalities. It presents data on gender, age and geographic and socioeconomic dimensions of health differentials. The aim of the report is to highlight where inequalities exist in aspects of young people's health and well-being in order to inform and influence policy and practice and to contribute to health improvement for all young people. [Ed.]
Download or read book Families in Converging Europe written by E. Oinonen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines common familial trends and differences throughout Europe from the 1960s onwards and discusses the most common theoretical explanations for convergence and divergence. Eriikka Oinonen reveals how structural factors such as the labour market, the welfare state and the EU affect Europeans' family related choices.
Download or read book Families and COVID 19 An Interactive Relationship written by Linda Hantrais and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teaching about the Family Values of Europeans written by Anke Uhlenwinkel and published by Universitätsverlag Potsdam. This book was released on 2013 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Values Education (EVE) project is a large-scale, cross-national, and longitudinal survey research programme on basic human values. The main topic of its second stage was family values in Europe. Student teachers of several universities in Europe worked together in multicultural exchange groups. Their results are presented in this issue.
Download or read book Low Fertility Institutions and their Policies written by Ronald R. Rindfuss and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines ten economically advanced countries in Europe and Asia that have experienced different levels of fertility decline. It offers readers a cross-country perspective on the causes and consequences of low birth rates and the different policy responses to this worrying trend. The countries examined are not only diverse geographically, historically, and culturally, but also have different policies and institutions in place. They include six very-low-fertility countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Spain, and Taiwan) and four that have close to replacement-level fertility (United Kingdom, Norway, Canada, and France). Although fertility has gone down in all these countries over the past 50 years, the chapters examine the institutional, policy, and cultural factors that have led some countries to have much lower fertility rates than others. In addition, the final chapter provides a cross-country comparison of individual perceptions about obs tacles to fertility, based on survey data, and government support for families. This broad overview, along with a general introduction, helps put the specific country papers in context. As birth rates continue to decline, there is increasing concern about the fate of social welfare systems, including healthcare and programs for the elderly. This book will help readers to better understand the root causes of such problems with its insightful discussion on how a country’s institutions, policies, and culture shape fertility trends and levels.
