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View article: How Do Single Mothers Evaluate and Cope with Living in Rural Peripheries? Insights into the Interplay of Social and Spatial Disadvantage*
How Do Single Mothers Evaluate and Cope with Living in Rural Peripheries? Insights into the Interplay of Social and Spatial Disadvantage* Open
When social and spatial disadvantages meet, are they doubled? Empirical studies have convincingly demonstrated that disadvantages tend to accumulate. Our paper advances this scholarship by focusing on the under‐researched issue of social p…
View article: The Mobility Interview: Triangulating Interview and Global Positioning System Data to Explore the Role of Mobility in Everyday Life
The Mobility Interview: Triangulating Interview and Global Positioning System Data to Explore the Role of Mobility in Everyday Life Open
This article presents a mixed-methods research protocol suitable for studying everyday mobility and its effects on life chances for a wide range of populations. We argue that it can address, among other issues, two important methodological…
View article: Disadvantaged and Disadvantaging Regions: Opportunity Structures and Social Disadvantage in Rural Peripheries
Disadvantaged and Disadvantaging Regions: Opportunity Structures and Social Disadvantage in Rural Peripheries Open
Regional peripheralisation has been repeatedly described as a process resulting in the combination of regional structural and social disadvantage. In theory, peripheries are characterised by the interdependence of these two types of disadv…
View article: Social Networks and the Health of Single Parents
Social Networks and the Health of Single Parents Open
Over the past decades single parent households have become established in most OECD countries. Single parenting comes with specific risks: single parents bear a higher poverty risk and have worse mental and physical health than married par…
View article: Social Networks and Health Inequalities: A New Perspective for Research
Social Networks and Health Inequalities: A New Perspective for Research Open
“Tell me how much your friends earn and I’ll tell you whether you smoke, what diseases you have and how old you’re going to become!” Part of this statement should be familiar to those who are interested in the connection between social ine…
View article: Gender and Health Inequalities: Social Networks in the Context of Health and Health Behavior
Gender and Health Inequalities: Social Networks in the Context of Health and Health Behavior Open
There are significant differences in morbidity (incidence of disease) and mortality (death rate) between men and women. By puberty, male adolescents are more likely to have health problems. During puberty, girls suffer from chronic and men…
View article: Desiderata: Social Networks and Health Inequalities: Which Questions Remain Open?
Desiderata: Social Networks and Health Inequalities: Which Questions Remain Open? Open
“Tell me how much your friends earn, and I’ll tell you if you smoke, what diseases you have and how long your life will be!” With this somewhat pointed statement, we wanted to shed light on the empirically well-confirmed connection between…
View article: Are Lone Mothers Also Lonely Mothers? Social Networks of Unemployed Lone Mothers in Eastern Germany
Are Lone Mothers Also Lonely Mothers? Social Networks of Unemployed Lone Mothers in Eastern Germany Open
Lone mothers have often been described from a deficit perspective as women who lack a partner, an additional income provider, and a co-parent. Newer research has focused more on the agency and coping competencies of lone mothers, showing t…
View article: Childless at Age 30: A Qualitative Study of the Life Course Plans of Working Women in East and West Germany
Childless at Age 30: A Qualitative Study of the Life Course Plans of Working Women in East and West Germany Open
At German unification, two states with fundamentally different economic and social systems became one. To help us gain a better understanding of the legacies of the past, this paper compares the attitudes of childless women who grew up in …
View article: Social network dynamics in the course of family formation: Results from a mixed-methods longitudinal study
Social network dynamics in the course of family formation: Results from a mixed-methods longitudinal study Open
In this article we examine the relationship between various biographical transitions of young adulthood and the structure of social networks. We ask how personal networks change in size and composition over the course of family formation o…