Solo-Living, Demographic and Family Change: The Need to know more about men

Lynn Jamieson, Fran Wasoff and Roona Simpson

Sociological Research Online, 2009, vol. 14, issue 2, 20-35

Abstract: Solo-living is analytically separate from ‘being single’ and merits separate study. In most Western countries more men are solo-living than women at ages conventionally associated with co-resident partners and children. Discussions of ‘demographic transition’ and change in personal life however typically place women in the vanguard, to the relative neglect of men. We draw on European Social Survey data and relevant qualitative research from Europe and North America demonstrating the need for further research.

Keywords: Family; Friendship; Gender; Intimacy; Solo-Living; One-Person; Household (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.5153/sro.1888

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