Reinventing Couples Tradition, Agency and Bricolage /

• Main Authors: Carter, Julia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Duncan, Simon (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Subjects: Social groups.; Family.; Families.; Families-Social aspects.; Sociology.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.; Gender Studies.

This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of 'tradition' and 'modern'. The authors examine how tradition is used and adapted, invented and re-invented; how meaning can leak fro...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Pragmatic tradition: personal life in the 1950s
• 3. Choosing Tradition: getting married
• 4. Inventing tradition: the case of cohabitation
• 5. The leakage of meaning: traditional naming practices
• 6. Differential agency: living apart together
• 7. Individualised conformity: creating a wedding
• 8. Afterword: extending intimacy. .