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Modernity has often been understood as being irreconcilable with the persistence of kinship. Personal networks are said to have become less centred on kinship, and instead, more contracted and individualised. Portugal, a country that has witnessed tremendous social and economic change in the last four decades, was selected as the subject of this study on the salience of kinship in contexts of social change. A large survey on family and personal ties of three cohorts of Portuguese people born in different periods and facing different transitions in life was used to investigate the salience of kinship in personal relationships. The results show that kinship remains a major pillar of personal networks in Portuguese society. However, the findings also show a segmentation of its salience according to the biographical, normative and structural contexts in which individuals are embedded. The translation of individualisation trends to everyday relational scenarios reveals complex processes of differentiation.

La présente recherche a été initiée par le Décanat de la Faculté des Sciences de la Société (SdS). Elle vise à éclairer les débouchés vers lesquels mènent les formations que la Faculté propose. Sur la base d'une enquête en ligne à laquelle plus de 1'500 anciens diplômés ont répondu, elle amène des éléments de réponse à plusieurs questions importantes: quels emplois occupent aujourd'hui les anciens diplômés de la Faculté, par quelles expériences professionalisantes sont-ils passés dans leurs parcours (stages, séjours à l'étranger, emplois à durée déterminée), quelles satisfactions et insatisfactions génèrent ces parcours? Les résultats de l'enquête, menée par une équipe de l'Institut de recherches sociologiques, témoignent du fait que, loin des considérations inquiètes apparaissant ponctuellement dans l'espace médiatique et politique à propos des débouchés des études universitaires, les diplômés en sciences sociales occupent aujourd'hui dans leur grande majorité des emplois dont ils sont largement satisfaits. Les diplômes en sciences sociales proposent un socle solide sur lequel construire une insertion professionnelle; ils ouvrent également la voie à de nombreuses possibilités de spécialisation, voire de réorientation professionnelle.

AbstractIn this research, we considered how various structural aspects of friendship networks relate to marital quality according to gender. To investigate this issue, we drew on data from a large longitudinal survey on marital functioning based on 903 heterosexual couples living in Switzerland. Using reports from male and female partners, we explored the extent to which joint contacts, transitivity, and overlap in friendship structures affect various indicators of marital quality for husbands and wives in the long run. Our results indicate that separate, low transitive friendship networks affect marital quality negatively for women, but not for men. We also discuss the importance of the results for understanding the dynamics of heterosexual couples within larger relational contexts beyond dyadic interactions, as well as the relevance of separately analyzing husbands' and wives' marital dynamics.

This book critically assesses the main features of the modernization of family life and personal relationships by examining and comparing three European countries with different social and political pathways: Portugal, Switzerland and Lithuania. Drawing on national surveys of family trajectories and social networks, the contributors highlight personal and family relationships through the lens of network and life course perspectives as well as gender and generational perspectives. Providing innovative, comparative findings on families and personal networks through the use of diverse methodologies, this edited collection will be of interest to scholars, students and policymakers across a range of social science disciplines