FAMILY AND KINSHIP

Author: MORENO MINGUEZ ALMUDENA.
Year: 2004.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA DE POSTGRADO.

Summary: The research study presented in this doctoral dissertation analyzes from a comparative perspective the paradoxical situation demographic and labor that characterizes the welfare states of the Mediterranean environment (Spain, Italy and Greece) and unlike that of all the countries of the Union European, the general decline experienced by fertility has not been accompanied by a similar increase in activity rates and feminine occupation. Based on this paradoxical situation discusses institutional links and work behind the low female labor force participation, as well as reduced fertility that characterizes these countries in terms of economic and labor costs. For this purpose is studied in terms compared the relationship have remained fertility and female employment in the context of welfare states, as well as the interconnections linking the State, market and the family in the so-called process desfamiliarización and individualization . This methodology has been applied from treatment compared to aggregate data from Eurostat and the OECD for the fifteen European Union countries grouped according to demographic characteristics, labor and institucinales of different welfare schemes defined. Comparative analysis made in this doctoral dissertation have found that in countries pertencecinetes the welfare system Mediterranean weak institutionalization of family policies, segmentation and low labor market flexibility, as well as retention of the standard male and sustainer of familiarismo have formed a model of family economy characterized by low fertility and low rates of activity and female occupation.

Author: LÓPEZ ELSA MABEL.
Year: 2004.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA DE POSTGRADO.

Summary: This dissertation was proposed known practices, values and views on contraception and fertility in women urban Argentina in the last half of the twentieth century in the context of population policies in the country. We analyzed 3 data sources: - The Reproductive Health Survey (poor women of fertile age in the suburbs of Buenos Aires). B-Module Targets Social Survey of Households (women in fertile age of 4 urban areas of Argentina). C-qualitative research sociocultural aspects of reproductive health (ages fertile women with children in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires). The results show that more than half of poor women in conjugal union with sex or using contraception in 1993. The preference for the methods by age shows that the pills ranks first in all ages and IUDs grows by increasing the same: condoms and contraceptive injections are followed in importance. The sexual initiation, marriage and reproductive those surveyed popular was early, which raises questions about the similarity with the trajectories of their mothers. There is evidence to suggest that changes will not be as follows: the highest level of education and contraceptive use indicate that young women tend to decrease the size of their offspring when they felt honored that size, even with early initiation of motherhood. The qualitative study showed that women value of strata means large families, while 3 children and many are considered; highlighting outside the aspirations and the desire to raise the standard of living. These women being restricted their chances of motherhood for reasons opposite to those of poor women: they have better access to contraceptive use, but their chances of becoming mothers are reduced by the conflict between that possibility and professional development. The women of lower strata expressed their desire to have a child again "when the little ones grow." While the lack of resources is a problem, they think that "what we have achieved for all" or "where they eat eat three four". The desire for motherhood is not inconsistent with their personal because it goes through motherhood. Having children means winning social space, raising the esteem and consideration, increasing the prestige, be recognized inside and outside the family. Being a mother means an improvement in the consideration, respect and prestige and outside the community and, as children grow, it increases the relative power of women within and outside the family and, therefore, its future is presumed more safe and less uncertain. Family relations are sometimes conflicting, but also the form of Social Goals relieved sociodemographic four profiles in the cities studied. In Greater Buenos Aires coexist various stages of the demographic transition, with stories sociocultural and migrant individuals, compared with the other 3 cities there is a smaller number of children, the greater legality of the unions and the education and the prevalence in the use Contraceptive. In Resistance (northeastern Argentine) there is a high level of fertility, increased frequency of marriages, low enrollment and poor use of contraception. In Salta (Northwest) prevails high fertility levels of schooling children for the Resistance, a slightly higher use of contraceptives and weighing less than consensual unions. In Neuquen (southwest) are intermediate levels of fertility and contraceptive use attributable to the weight favorable public health services. In conclusion, there are diverse realities in Argentina sociodemographic, cultural and health considerations to be taken into account when designing policies 8 bienest 2cf ar.

Author: AYUSO SÁNCHEZ LUIS MANUEL.
Year: 2004.
University: GRANADA [www.ugr.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: DEPARTAMENTO DE SOCIOLOGÍA, FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.

Summary: This dissertation addresses the emerging phenomenon of family associations, formed as a relatively new and diverse social reality in Europe. Specifically, this work stops especially in analyzing the case of Spain. The scene in which this object of study as a reference advanced societies today, where they develop symptoms of saturation models bipolar (state / market) that have characterized the modern era. In this context, resurgent new players within delos "worlds of life" (associations and family), seeking greater public presence and a redirection of welfare policies.

Author: ESPINAR FELLMANN ISABEL.
Year: 2005.
University: PONTIFICIA COMILLAS [www.upcomillas.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS Y SOCIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS Y SOCIALES.

Summary: The transformation in Western societies are experiencing traditional family structures has prompted an area of research and increased emphasis particularly important to promote the adjustment and welfare of members belonging, or that it probably will at some point, new configurations relatives and those who can not be generalized knowledge acquired in conventional families. Most studies on families reconstituted agree that the integration and family satisfaction will depend particularly on the creation of a strong and successful marital relationship, and establishing a good relationship between stepfather / stepmother and stepson . However, both tasks usually involve some difficulty for a large portion of reconstituted families because of the difficulties they found some of its members, especially the stepparents and / or madrastras, to perform in a satisfactory manner the various family roles. Thus, the objective of this paper is to present the results obtained with a sample of 116 stepfathers and madrastras with regard to the impact that stress has on the role of burnout experienced by these figures relatives. Furthermore, we show the effect exerted on the relationship of stress and burnout role of two variables specific to the couple such as adjustment or marital satisfaction and conflicts arising from the rearing of stepchildren

Author: BALLESTER BRAGE LUIS.
Year: 2005.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA DE LA UAB.
Place of preparation: DEPARTAMENTO DE SOCIOLOGÍA DE LA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA.

Summary: It discusses various theoretical concepts on the family and social strategies, to finish reviewing the concepció based on the work of Pierre Bourdieu. It remains the need to overcome conventional conceptions, as well as the need to overcome the non-contextual approaches. The benchmarks taken as part of the analysis are the family and forms of coexistence, on the one hand; Majorca, understood as a distinct society on the other. But before the empirical studies, developed from various sources and multiple complementary methodologies (approach multimétodo), is also developing a review of the construction of the object of knowledge. The study of sociological construct called "youth" allows research from a critical approach. The analysis of the social reality of Majorca introduces analysis on the strategies and paths dominant among young people of the island, especially the strategies developed at the various situations of need. From factor analysis and cluster analysis establishes the basic types of subpopulations of young people with different backgrounds. Three were selected subpopulations, among the various situations identified; young university contrayectorias intensification of the investment in training young contrayectorias training and working poor; finally be analizala subpopulation of young women engaged in prostitution. The three groups are studies in detail, from in-depth interviews and from a comparative perspective, especially as you are involved or not in the various networks of relationships available in the community, as well as from the analysis of his speech. In recent work, developed with the correlation analysis, as well as chapters on strategies dominant and defining subpopulations young, the findings are based on the thesis.