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Exploring the growing global trend of solo living, this highly original study addresses core debates about contemporary social change in the context of globalization, including individualization and connection, the future of family formation, consumption and identities, belonging and 'community', living arrangements and sustainability.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Living Alone, Life Course and Life Transitions
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Home, Consumption and Identity
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Networks, Community and Place
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Back Matter
Reviews
"Living Alone sets out to investigate the rising incidence of solo-living against a background of research on households that assumes the multi-person household as a unit of analysis. Furthermore, it aims to challenge and deconstruct normative assumptions about solo-living narrating the diverse trajectories, lived experiences and biographies of those living alone. By locating this within broader sociological theories concerned on the one hand with the rise of individualism, and on the other hand with community and sociality, the book presents a nuanced picture of an often stereotyped and misunderstood household arrangement." - BSA Sociology Journal
"Lynn Jamieson and Roona Simpson offer the most comprehensive review and analysis of solo living to date'. - Bella de Paulo, Project Scientist, University of California, USA
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Author Lynn Jamieson: Lynn Jamieson is Professor of Families and Relationships at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and is a founding director of the interdisciplinary consortium, Centre for Research on Families and Relationships. Her publications include a second edition of Intimacy: Personal Relationships in Modern Societies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Living Alone
Book Subtitle: Globalization, Identity and Belonging
Authors: Lynn Jamieson, Roona Simpson
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318527
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-27192-0Published: 19 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32291-6Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31852-7Published: 19 September 2013
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 305
Topics: Political Science, Gender Studies, Family, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Sociology, general, Urban Studies/Sociology