In this article, we seek to establish the importance of living together apart (LTA), where expart... more In this article, we seek to establish the importance of living together apart (LTA), where expartners continue to co-reside following relationship breakdown. Although LTA is commonplace, it has been almost completely overlooked by family sociology and social policy. Because LTA is conceptually unrecognised, there is little empirical information and because there is so little information, it remains conceptually unrecognised. In this article, we attempt to break out from this loop. First, we place LTA within the context of partnership change. Second, we estimate the quantitative magnitude and qualitative significance of LTA in Britain. We use a survey concerned with owner-occupier LTA to indicate population characteristics and aggregate behaviour. This is accompanied by qualitative analysis of Mumsnet forums on LTA, to develop insight into understandings and relationships. Drawing on these findings, we argue that LTA is both a significant household form and important relationship type.
Chapter 4 shows how different social groups of lone mothers hold different ideas about the compat... more Chapter 4 shows how different social groups of lone mothers hold different ideas about the compatibility of motherhood and paid work, and Chapter 5 goes on to link these ideas with employment position as recorded in the British census. However, even if lone mothers do consider that substantial paid work is compatible with being a good mother, and even when they receive support for this through their social networks, appropriate jobs have to be available to put these ideas into practice. And these jobs are provided by employers in the context of local, national and world economies that are largely outside the capacity of lone mothers to influence directly.
Lone motherhood is not neutral and apolitical; it is shot through with political and moral evalua... more Lone motherhood is not neutral and apolitical; it is shot through with political and moral evaluations (Silva 1996). Britain provides a good example. In 1993, ‘the year of the demonisation of lone mothers’, lone mothers found themselves vilified by right wing politicians and the popular media as threats to the fabric of social order. Supposedly, they were rearing delinquent children while scrounging benefits and housing off the welfare state, and thus forming a dangerous underclass. Attempts were made by voluntary groups and others representing lone mothers to counter this portrayal and insert, or reinsert, a public image of lone mothers as women who were struggling to do their best in constrained and unfavourable circumstances. Lone motherhood was again a focus during 1996 as part of a national debate about British society’s ‘moral values’, again conducted by politicians and the media. Lone mothers were one of several groups highlighted as an example of where these values were somehow going wrong. Towards the end of 1997 lone mothers were again in the news. This time debate centred on whether ‘sticks’ or ‘carrots’ were required to move lone mothers off welfare dependency and into paid work, following the new Labour government’s benefit cuts and welfare-to-work strategies for lone mothers. In all these cases lone motherhood was used as a concrete symbol, or rallying point, for wider debates about the nature of society and how the state should react.
... Horaires d'ouverture du magasin: Du mardi au vendredi, de 09h30 à 18h30 sans interruptio... more ... Horaires d'ouverture du magasin: Du mardi au vendredi, de 09h30 à 18h30 sans interruption Le Samedi, de 10h00 à 18h00 sans interruption. ... Prix indicatif 20,41 Ajouter au panier le livre de DUNCAN Simon, EDWARDS Rosalind. Langue : ANGLAIS 176p. ...
Publication View. 22433713. Success and failure in housing provision: European systems compared (... more Publication View. 22433713. Success and failure in housing provision: European systems compared (1994). ...
Self-provided housing is a major form of housing supply in nearly all the developed countries of ... more Self-provided housing is a major form of housing supply in nearly all the developed countries of W. Europe, N. America and Australasia. In many, like France or Germany, it accounted for the major part of housing output during the 1980s. Contrary to many opinions self-provision is not associated with backwardness, peripherality, or lack of market development. Rather, self-provided housing is often a major element in the expansion of European metropoles and sometimes reaches the heights of 'post-fordist' industrial organisation and product development. Self-provision lowers the money cost of housing and usually ensures higher quality, and in this way enlarges the housing choices of middle-income nuclear families. Materials and land costs remain substantial barriers to self-provision, and the more disadvantaged groups are usually unable to participate. However, the presence of a large self-provided sector can indirectly improve their housing position. Housing cycles will be calmed, spatial polarisation will be less severe, and there will be less competition from the more advantaged in rental markets. A significant self-provision sector can also have important effects on the housebuilding industry, both through direct competition and by presenting a different market environment. The net result is likely to be a decline in speculative behaviour and a concentration on longer-term efficiency. Finally, there are various 'models' for a successful self-provided housing sector, where the necessary social support is organised in different ways by different agencies. These will affect the level and distribution of self-provision. Given the importance of self-provided housing in all these ways, it merits considerably further research than has been the case so far.
In this chapter we examine how different sorts of welfare state position women, and how this posi... more In this chapter we examine how different sorts of welfare state position women, and how this positioning in turn presents a differentiated set of opportunities and constraints for lone mothers. While we refer to particular policies as appropriate, our concern is therefore not to provide a comprehensive account of different policies affecting lone mothers in different countries (for which see Bradshaw et al. 1996, Millar 1996). Rather, we wish to provide an analytical account of how lone mothers are differentially positioned by social policies in different countries. We have also been at pains to point out, in earlier chapters, that national state policy is only one of several social contexts in which lone mothers negotiate their lives. Nor should we see state policy as in some way autonomous from these contexts (see especially Chapter 2 on discourses). Nevertheless, in that national policies continue to provide or restrict access to resources, based on a concentration of collective social authority within the state, then the national context will remain particularly important in forming constraints and opportunities for lone mothers.
In this article, we seek to establish the importance of living together apart (LTA), where expart... more In this article, we seek to establish the importance of living together apart (LTA), where expartners continue to co-reside following relationship breakdown. Although LTA is commonplace, it has been almost completely overlooked by family sociology and social policy. Because LTA is conceptually unrecognised, there is little empirical information and because there is so little information, it remains conceptually unrecognised. In this article, we attempt to break out from this loop. First, we place LTA within the context of partnership change. Second, we estimate the quantitative magnitude and qualitative significance of LTA in Britain. We use a survey concerned with owner-occupier LTA to indicate population characteristics and aggregate behaviour. This is accompanied by qualitative analysis of Mumsnet forums on LTA, to develop insight into understandings and relationships. Drawing on these findings, we argue that LTA is both a significant household form and important relationship type.
Chapter 4 shows how different social groups of lone mothers hold different ideas about the compat... more Chapter 4 shows how different social groups of lone mothers hold different ideas about the compatibility of motherhood and paid work, and Chapter 5 goes on to link these ideas with employment position as recorded in the British census. However, even if lone mothers do consider that substantial paid work is compatible with being a good mother, and even when they receive support for this through their social networks, appropriate jobs have to be available to put these ideas into practice. And these jobs are provided by employers in the context of local, national and world economies that are largely outside the capacity of lone mothers to influence directly.
Lone motherhood is not neutral and apolitical; it is shot through with political and moral evalua... more Lone motherhood is not neutral and apolitical; it is shot through with political and moral evaluations (Silva 1996). Britain provides a good example. In 1993, ‘the year of the demonisation of lone mothers’, lone mothers found themselves vilified by right wing politicians and the popular media as threats to the fabric of social order. Supposedly, they were rearing delinquent children while scrounging benefits and housing off the welfare state, and thus forming a dangerous underclass. Attempts were made by voluntary groups and others representing lone mothers to counter this portrayal and insert, or reinsert, a public image of lone mothers as women who were struggling to do their best in constrained and unfavourable circumstances. Lone motherhood was again a focus during 1996 as part of a national debate about British society’s ‘moral values’, again conducted by politicians and the media. Lone mothers were one of several groups highlighted as an example of where these values were somehow going wrong. Towards the end of 1997 lone mothers were again in the news. This time debate centred on whether ‘sticks’ or ‘carrots’ were required to move lone mothers off welfare dependency and into paid work, following the new Labour government’s benefit cuts and welfare-to-work strategies for lone mothers. In all these cases lone motherhood was used as a concrete symbol, or rallying point, for wider debates about the nature of society and how the state should react.
... Horaires d'ouverture du magasin: Du mardi au vendredi, de 09h30 à 18h30 sans interruptio... more ... Horaires d'ouverture du magasin: Du mardi au vendredi, de 09h30 à 18h30 sans interruption Le Samedi, de 10h00 à 18h00 sans interruption. ... Prix indicatif 20,41 Ajouter au panier le livre de DUNCAN Simon, EDWARDS Rosalind. Langue : ANGLAIS 176p. ...
Publication View. 22433713. Success and failure in housing provision: European systems compared (... more Publication View. 22433713. Success and failure in housing provision: European systems compared (1994). ...
Self-provided housing is a major form of housing supply in nearly all the developed countries of ... more Self-provided housing is a major form of housing supply in nearly all the developed countries of W. Europe, N. America and Australasia. In many, like France or Germany, it accounted for the major part of housing output during the 1980s. Contrary to many opinions self-provision is not associated with backwardness, peripherality, or lack of market development. Rather, self-provided housing is often a major element in the expansion of European metropoles and sometimes reaches the heights of 'post-fordist' industrial organisation and product development. Self-provision lowers the money cost of housing and usually ensures higher quality, and in this way enlarges the housing choices of middle-income nuclear families. Materials and land costs remain substantial barriers to self-provision, and the more disadvantaged groups are usually unable to participate. However, the presence of a large self-provided sector can indirectly improve their housing position. Housing cycles will be calmed, spatial polarisation will be less severe, and there will be less competition from the more advantaged in rental markets. A significant self-provision sector can also have important effects on the housebuilding industry, both through direct competition and by presenting a different market environment. The net result is likely to be a decline in speculative behaviour and a concentration on longer-term efficiency. Finally, there are various 'models' for a successful self-provided housing sector, where the necessary social support is organised in different ways by different agencies. These will affect the level and distribution of self-provision. Given the importance of self-provided housing in all these ways, it merits considerably further research than has been the case so far.
In this chapter we examine how different sorts of welfare state position women, and how this posi... more In this chapter we examine how different sorts of welfare state position women, and how this positioning in turn presents a differentiated set of opportunities and constraints for lone mothers. While we refer to particular policies as appropriate, our concern is therefore not to provide a comprehensive account of different policies affecting lone mothers in different countries (for which see Bradshaw et al. 1996, Millar 1996). Rather, we wish to provide an analytical account of how lone mothers are differentially positioned by social policies in different countries. We have also been at pains to point out, in earlier chapters, that national state policy is only one of several social contexts in which lone mothers negotiate their lives. Nor should we see state policy as in some way autonomous from these contexts (see especially Chapter 2 on discourses). Nevertheless, in that national policies continue to provide or restrict access to resources, based on a concentration of collective social authority within the state, then the national context will remain particularly important in forming constraints and opportunities for lone mothers.
Simon Duncan (1993) and James Barlow (1995), in their previous reports for this series, commented... more Simon Duncan (1993) and James Barlow (1995), in their previous reports for this series, commented on the paucity of theoretically informed housing research. They suggested that research remains firmly rooted in the" social policy approach," where housing policy is viewed as an offshoot of social administration. Their conclusion was that although housing research had generated a number of important policy interventions, housing policy issues only rarely had been explored from a sociological or dynamic perspective, incorporating ...
This article explores how people who live apart from their partners in Britain describe and under... more This article explores how people who live apart from their partners in Britain describe and understand 'family'. It investigates whether, and how far, non-cohabiting partners, friends, 'blood' and legal ties are seen as 'family', and how practices of care and support, and feelings of closeness are related to these constructions. It suggests that people in LAT relationships creatively draw and re-draw the boundaries of family belonging in ways that involve emotionally subjective understandings of family life, and that also refer to normative constructions of what 'family' ought to be, as well as to practical recognitions of lived family 'realities'. This often involves handling uncertainties about what constitutes 'family'.
This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of ... more This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of ‘tradition’ and ‘modern’. The authors examine how tradition is used and adapted, invented and re-invented; how meaning can leak from past to present; the ways in which people’s agencies differ as they make decisions; and the process of bricolage in making new arrangements. These themes are illustrated through a variety of case studies, ranging from personal life in the 1950s, young women and marriage, the rise of cohabitation, female name change, living apart together, and creating weddings. Centrally the authors emphasise the re-traditionalisation involved in detraditionalisation and the connectedness involved in individualised processes of relationship change.
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