The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe

This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe. More than sixty prominent European scholars’ original texts present the field’s main theoretical and methodological approaches in addition to issues such as families as relationships, parental arrangements, parenting practices and child well-being, family policies in welfare state regimes, family lives in migration, and family trajectories. Presenting cutting-edge research on findings, theoretical interpretations, and solutions to methodological challenges, it is a timely tool for researchers, teachers, students, and family practitioners who wish to familiarise themselves with the state of family sociology in Europe.

Anna-MaijaCastrén is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Eastern Finland, Finland.

Vida Česnuityte is Associate Professor of Sociology at Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania.

Isabella Crespi is Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology at University of Macerata, Italy.

Jacques-Antoine Gauthier is Senior Lecturer in the Life Course and Inequality Research Centre at University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Rita Gouveia is Post-Doctoral Researcher in Family Sociology in the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Claude Martin is Research Professor in the National Centre for Scientific Research at University of Rennes, France.

Almudena Moreno Mínguez is Professor of Sociology at University of Valladolid, Spain.

Katarzyna Suwada is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland.