Reinventing Couples: Tradition, Agency and Bricolage

by Simon Duncan and Julia Carter

This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of 'tradition' and 'modern'. The authors examine how tradition is used and adapted, invented and re-invented; how meaning can leak from past to present; the ways in which people's agencies differ as they make decisions; and the process of bricolage in making new arrangements. These themes are illustrated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137589604
• ISBN13: 9781137589606
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"