Families and Kinship in Contemporary Europe: Rules and Practices of Relatedness Hardcover - 2011

ELISABETH BECK-GERNSHEIM is Visiting Professor at NTNU/Trondheim, Norway LAURA BERNARDI is Professor of Demography and Sociology of Life Course, Director of the Laboratory for Life Course Studies and Deputy Director of the National Centre for Competence in Research 'LIVES' at Lausanne University, Switzerland ROBERTA BONINI is a Lecturer in Social Policy and Quantitative Methodology at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy IVAN DE CARLO is a PhD Student and Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Geneva University, Switzerland ANNA-MAIJA CASTRN is Docent and a Research Fellow at the Department of Social Research (sociology), Helsinki University, Finland ANTNIA GOMILA works at the Department of Philosophy, University of the Balearic Islands ROLAND HAURI is working on his doctoral thesis and is a research and teaching assistant at the Institute for Practical Theology, Bern University, Switzerland ANDREAS HIRSELAND is a Senior Researcher at the Department 'Joblessness and Social Inclusion', Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the German Federal Employment Agency (BA), in Nuremberg, Germany RIITTA HGBACKA is a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Social Research (sociology), Helsinki University, Finland and a Visiting Scholar at California University, Berkeley, USA SYLVIA KEIM is a Research Scientist at Rostock University, Germany FLORENCE MAILLOCHON is a Sociologist at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS; Centre Maurice Halbwachs; ERIS) in Paris, France SARA MAZZUCCHELLI is a Sociologist and a Research Fellow at the Athenaeum Centre for Family Research and Studies, Catholic University of Milan, Italy ANNA OPPO was previously Professor of Sociology at Gagliari University, Italy, but is now retired GIOVANNA ROSSI is Full Professor of Family Sociology at Catholic University of Milan, Italy CAROLINE RUINER is a Research Associate at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Augsburg University, Germany WERNER SCHNEIDER is Professor of Sociology at Augsburg University, Germany CAROL SMART is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life at Manchester University, UK DANA SKOROV is Docent/Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Studies, Ostrava University and the Philosophical Faculty of Palack University in Olomouc, Czech Republic ULRIKE ZARTLER is an Assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Vienna University, Austria