Young, Free and Single?
Twenty-Somethings and Household Change
Published on 16. December 2003
VIII, 225 pages
978-0-230-50287-1 (ISBN)
Description
In the context of the ongoing destandardization of young people's lives, this book explores changing patterns of household formation amongst contemporary 20-somethings and the implications of these changes for the ways in which they relate to friends, parents and partners. The book points to the growing polarization between the experiences of graduates and non-graduates, and highlights changing expectations and attitudes towards intimacy and 'settling down' amongst these groups.
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SUE HEATH is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Southampton, and Co-Convenor of the British Sociological Association's Youth Study Group. Previous publications include
Sociological Research Methods in Context
(with Fiona Devine) and
Times in the Making
(editor with Graham Crow).
ELIZABETH CLEAVER is a Senior Research Officer at the National Foundation for Educational Research and is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton.
ELIZABETH CLEAVER is a Senior Research Officer at the National Foundation for Educational Research and is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton.
Content
Acknowledgements The Destandardisation of Household Formation Domesticity, Household Formation and Youth Research Risk, Individualisation and the Single Life Living In and Leaving the Parental Home Student Housing and Households Shared Housing, Grown-up Style Solo Living: Who Wants to Live Alone? Friends and Family Negotiating Current and Future Partnerships Redifining Home? Conclusion: Twenty-Somethings and Household Change Appendix 1: The Young Adults and Shared Household Living Project Appendix 2: Household Profiles Bibliography Index
