1. Introduction 2. Envisioning Social Landscapes of Interconnection 3. Reshaping Difference and Interdependence: The Transformation of Family Life and Divisions of Labour into the Twentieth Century 4. Contemporary Transformations in Gender, Work and Family 5. Disposition and Position: Norms, Attitudes and Commitments to Children, Work and Self 6. Life Course Transitions and the Changing Landscape of Opportunity and Constraint 7. Ethnicity and Contexts of Belonging and Exclusion 8. Difference, Hierarchy and Perceptions of Social Justice 9. Conclusion Endnotes References
Biography
Sarah Irwin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds. Her research interests include family change, gender, employment, social difference and diversity and inequality and she has published extensively in these areas. Her last book, Rights of Passage: Social change and the transition from youth to adulthood (UCL Press), won the 1995 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.
