Wie organisieren europäische Gesellschaften ihre soziale Zeit? Wie verändert sich mit der Integration Europas und mit der Globalisierung der Alltag? Diese Fragen werden auf einer umfangreichen empirischen Basis in vier Gesellschaften, in Deutschland, Großbritannien, Spanien und Schweden,...

What a ects the economic and cultural development tracks of societies? We know that large events such as political changes, natural disasters and migration can change a society dramatically at the macro level, but what exactly happens at the individual level? When conditions change, people are...

Welfare states and policies have changed greatly over the past decades, mostly characterized by retrenchments in terms of government spending or in terms of restricted access to certain benefits. In the area of family policies, however, a lot of countries have simultaneously expanded provisions...