Norbert F. Schneider – författare

Exploring how family life has radically changed in recent decades, this comprehensive Research Handbook tracks the latest developments and trends in scholarly work on the family. With a particular focus on the European context, it addresses current debates and offers insights into key topics including: the division of housework, family forms and living arrangements, intergenerational relationships, partner choice, divorce and fertility behaviour. Bringing together contributions from leading family sociologists, the Research Handbook examines important questions: have family patterns across different countries become more similar, or have differences between countries and social groups increased over time? How diverse are family forms across different countries? How do conventional theories explain these patterns? And what are the major innovations in theorising and describing family behaviour? In order to resolve these key points, the chapters provide an overview of past and present developments in scholarly work on European families. They also present concise overviews of theories, methods, critical debates, empirical findings and pathways for future research. Its analysis of important areas of research in the field will make this Research Handbook a valuable resource for scholars and students of sociology, demography, and family and gender policy. It will also be beneficial for policy experts in these fields.

Based on the German case, this open access book highlights the increasing flows of migration and the internationalisation of individual life courses. It analyses the experiences of migration across four central domains - employment and income, partners and families, health and wellbeing, as well as friends and social participation - which potentially have far-reaching consequences for social inequalities and life chances. The book showcases results from an innovative probability sample that is representative of German emigrants who recently moved abroad and remigrants who recently returned from abroad and compares their international experiences with the sedentary population in Germany. Stays abroad, whether temporary or permanently, have become the new normal for increasing numbers of people from highly developed welfare states. Unnoticed from mainstream migration studies, these countries are today not only major immigration countries but also important sources of international mobility. By providing an empirically founded prism of the global lives of German migrants, this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers of migration, social inequality, and the life course and provides practitioners with insights into these regularly overlooked aspects of international migration.

Based on the German case, this open access book highlights the increasing flows of migration and the internationalisation of individual life courses. It analyses the experiences of migration across four central domains - employment and income, partners and families, health and wellbeing, as well as friends and social participation - which potentially have far-reaching consequences for social inequalities and life chances. The book showcases results from an innovative probability sample that is representative of German emigrants who recently moved abroad and remigrants who recently returned from abroad and compares their international experiences with the sedentary population in Germany. Stays abroad, whether temporary or permanently, have become the new normal for increasing numbers of people from highly developed welfare states. Unnoticed from mainstream migration studies, these countries are today not only major immigration countries but also important sources of international mobility. By providing an empirically founded prism of the global lives of German migrants, this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers of migration, social inequality, and the life course and provides practitioners with insights into these regularly overlooked aspects of international migration.

In order to understand the familial and social relationships of one's clients, the therapist can use various means to depict the ongoing therapy and counseling processes. Genograms and network analysis are the best-known tools to this end.What is the present life situation of the client and what is the client's history? What is the structure of the client's family and what resources do clients have at their disposal? These are the things a counselor needs to know before beginning to work with the client's system.JÃ"rgen Beushausen presents a number of case examples to illustrate three methods for looking at the client and the client's world: the genogram, the network analysis and the visual analysis. Of particular practical interest in all forms of psychosocial work is the downloadable annotated manual for creating genograms.

Wie bei der Verteilung von Familienformen im allgemeinen haben die unter­ schiedlichen Gesellschaftssysteme der früheren BRD und DDR auch in Struktur und Leben nichtehelicher Lebensgemeinschaften ihre Spuren hinter­ lassen. Dies gilt auch, wenn sich der Blick auf nichteheliche Lebensgemein­ schaften mit Kindern richtet, eine Lebensform, die in der DDR viel häufiger war als in der BRD. Gemäß diesen unterschiedlichen Traditionen sind in den alten Bundesländern Paare mit ein- oder beidseitiger Scheidungserfahrungen häufiger und Partnerschaften lediger Eltern seltener als in den neuen Bundes­ ländern. Ebenfalls auf DDR-Tradition beruht der höhere Anteil von nichtehe­ lichen Lebensgemeinschaften in einem gemeinsamen Haushalt. Unter die Rubrik der Ost-West-Unterschiede fallen auch folgende Befunde: • In den neuen Bundesländern liegt der Anteil der häufiger als einmal monatlichen Kontakte insgesamt deutlich niedriger als in den alten Bun­ desländern; ob dies mit dem DDR-spezifischen Charakter nichtehelicher Lebensgemeinschaften zusammenhängt, als "nichteheliche Familien­ gemeinschaften" zu fungieren, erscheint nicht ausgeschlossen, bedarf aber weiterer Aufklärung. • Der Kontakt ehelich geborener Kinder zum anderswo wohnenden ge­ schiedenen oder getrenntlebenden Vater ist in den alten Bundesländern intensiver als der Kontakt nichtehelich geborener Kinder zu ihrem zur Zeit der Geburt mit der Mutter nicht verheirateten Vater außer Haus. "Kindorientierung" der Eheschließung in den alten Bundesländern geht demnach einher mit einer verbreiteten Indifferenz nichtehelicher Partner gegenüber ihren Kindern. In den neuen Bundesländern ist dieses Gefälle kaum zu spüren.

Korea and Germany are commonly described as emblematic examples of divided nations. But while Korea is still divided Germany has gone through a peaceful unification. The book offers a unique comparative study on the demographic change in these divided countries. It also investigates the developments after Germany‘s unification. Based on this demographic insights of a merged society it asks about their use and limits for a possible Korean scenario of reunification.