The arena of everyday life: 12 (Mansholt Publication series, 12) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9086862217 ISBN 13: 9789086862214

Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

In 'The arena of everyday life' nine authors look back and forward at developments in the sociology of consumers and households. Nine chapters show variety in the employed methods, from multivariate analyses of survey data to classical essays. The contributions are organised around four themes. In the first theme, two chapters entail a critical discussion of the concepts livelihood and household. The second part deals with health, in particular food security, hygiene and aids/HIV. The third theme focuses on female opportunities to foster income procurement of household by respectively microfinance and entrepreneurship. The fourth theme concentrates on two topical societal developments in a Western society, the first chapter dealing with the issue of creating opportunities for tailor-made services to older people, the second one focussing on the home-work balance of telecommuters. This publication, written by international researchers, once supervised by prof. Anke Niehof, while writing their PhD dissertation, or (former) colleagues of Niehof, covers the many issues and reflecting her work and interest. The arena of everyday life is what her research and teaching evolved around, as shown in this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9086862217
• ISBN 13: 9789086862214
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Butijn Carja, Ophem Johan Van, Casimir Gerda