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About this book
Originally published in 1995, this innovative collection provides a multidisciplinary and cross-national perspective on the links between housing, personal wealth and the family in contemporary society. Reasserting the role of the family and informal networks in housing provision, it counteracts a tendency to view housing issues in the narrow terms of market and state provision.
The contributions include analyses from the USA, Japan, Hong Kong, Greece, France, Sweden and Hungary, and this highly international perspective allows the book to address important policy questions and offer new theoretical insights into the way housing is embedded in the wider social structure. By moving away from the more usual, highly ethnocentric discussion of today's housing issues, the book aims to provide a more sociological account of the relationship between housing and wealth, and the social structures within which that relationship is founded. Today it can be read in its historical context.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- 1 Housing and family wealth in comparative perspective
- 2 Housing wealth and inheritance: the New Zealand experience
- 3 The ‘family home’ and transfers of wealth in Australia
- 4 Accumulating evidence: housing and family wealth in Britain
- 5 Home ownership and family wealth in the United States
- 6 Coping strategies in a booming market: family wealth and housing in Hong Kong
- 7 Home owners: richer or not - is that the real question?
- 8 The extended family and housing in France
- 9 On the structure of housing accumulation and the role of family wealth transfers in the Greek housing system
- 10 Market, state and informal networks in the growth of private housing in Hungary
- 11 Home ownership and family wealth in Japan
- 12 Family networks, reciprocity and housing wealth
- 13 Shifting paradigms: the sociology of housing, the sociology of the family, and the crisis of modernity
- 14 Informal allocation of housing wealth in Swedish social renting
- 15 Points of departure
- Bibliography
- Index