Reinventing couples : tradition, agency and bricolage / Julia Carter, Simon Duncan.
Carter, Julia, author.; Duncan, Simon, author.
2018
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Title Reinventing couples : tradition, agency and bricolage / Julia Carter, Simon Duncan.
Author Carter, Julia, author.
ISBN 9781137589613 (electronic book)
1137589612 (electronic book)
9781137589606
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58961-3
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 229 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1057/978-1-137-58961-3 doi
Call Number HQ801
Dewey Decimal Classification 646.7/7
Summary 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 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Digital File Characteristics text file PDF
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 26, 2017).
Added Author Duncan, Simon, author.
Series Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9781137589606
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1. Introduction
2. Pragmatic tradition: personal life in the 1950s
3. Choosing Tradition: getting married
4. Inventing tradition: the case of cohabitation
5. The leakage of meaning: traditional naming practices
6. Differential agency: living apart together
7. Individualised conformity: creating a wedding
8. Afterword: extending intimacy.

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