Reinventing Couples: Tradition, Agency and Bricolage (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life) - 9781349954773

This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of ætraditionÆ and æmodernÆ. 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 peopleÆs 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 de-traditionalisation and the connectedness involved in individualised processes of relationship change. Reinventing Couples will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including sociology, social work and social policy.

• | Author: Julia Carter, Simon Duncan
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jun 07, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 1349954772
• | ISBN-13: 9781349954773