The Arena Of Everyday Life (maushalt Publication)

"In 'The arena of everyday life' nine authors look back and forward at developments in the sociology of consumers and households. Nine chapters show variety in the employed methods, from multivariate analyses of survey data to classical essays. The contributions are organised around four themes. In the first theme, two chapters entail a critical discussion of the concepts livelihood and household. The second part deals with health, in particular food security, hygiene and aids/HIV. The third theme focuses on female opportunities to foster income procurement of household by respectively microfinance and entrepreneurship. The fourth theme concentrates on two topical societal developments in a Western society, the first chapter dealing with the issue of creating opportunities for tailor-made services to older people, the second one focussing on the home-work balance of telecommuters. This publication, written by international researchers, once supervised by prof. Anke Niehof, while writing their PhD dissertation, or (former) colleagues of Niehof, covers the many issues and reflecting her work and interest. The arena of everyday life is what her research and teaching evolved around, as shown in this book."--Publisher's website. « In 'The arena of everyday life' nine authors look back and forward at developments in the sociology of consumers and households. Nine chapters show variety in the employed methods, from multivariate analyses of survey data to classical essays. The contributions are organised around four themes. In the first theme, two chapters entail a critical discussion of the concepts livelihood and household. The second part deals with health, in particular food security, hygiene and aids/HIV. The third theme focuses on female opportunities to foster income procurement of household by respectively microfinance and entrepreneurship. The fourth theme concentrates on two topical societal developments in a Western society, the first chapter dealing with the issue of creating opportunities for tailor-made services to older people, the second one focussing on the home-work balance of telecommuters. This publication, written by international researchers, once supervised by prof. Anke Niehof, while writing their PhD dissertation, or (former) colleagues of Niehof, covers the many issues and reflecting her work and interest. The arena of everyday life is what her research and teaching evolved around, as shown in this book. » -- Résumé de l'éditeur Front Matter....Pages 1-12 On the arena of everyday life....Pages 15-19 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 Beyond the livelihood framework: aspirations and well-being in encounters with aids orphans in Mozambique....Pages 23-34 Modified extended households: co-residence, headship and household resource management in the context of labour out-migration in rural Nepal....Pages 35-45 Front Matter....Pages 47-47 Understanding food security: some methodological innovations....Pages 49-67 Manner mayks man: on manners and hygiene....Pages 69-79 Households and social networks in times of HIV/AIDS: a case from Tanzania....Pages 81-91 Front Matter....Pages 93-93 Social and financial performance of the SIKAP microfinance program: the case of women-borrowers in a rural village in the Philippines....Pages 95-116 Women fish traders and entrepreneurship: case studies from a coastal fishing community in Nigeria....Pages 117-128 Front Matter....Pages 129-129 Segments in long-term care and loneliness enabling tailor-made services to elderly people....Pages 131-141 The home-work balance of telecommuters: ten years after....Pages 143-160 Back Matter....Pages 161-174