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Die mannliche Aufstiegskarriere pragt bis heute unsere Vorstellungen von sozialem Erfolg. Allerdings: Mit der Umorganisierung des marktwirtschaftlichen Systems in den 1980er und 90er Jahren geriet dieses Biographiemuster zunehmend unter Druck. Mit einer Kombination von qualitativen und quantitativen Methoden geht der Autor am Beispiel der Schweiz der Frage nach, wie sich Aufstiegskarrieren gewandelt haben. Er zeigt, wieso die ?neue Karriere? dem Karrieremodell von Finanzspezialisten nachempfunden ist, wie die Aufsteiger ihre Laufbahn wahrnehmen und warum besonders altere Ingenieure unter den strukturellen Umbrüchen der 1990er litten.
List of contents
I. Contemporary Rural Change and the concept of Territorial Cohesion 1. Introduction 2. The New Rural Economy and macro-scale patterns 3. The evolution of European rural policy 4. Parallel Worlds? Comparing the perspectives and rationales of EU Rural Development and Cohesion Policy 5. Territorial Cohesion: US and Canadian Perspectives on the Concept II. The changes taking place in Rural Europe 6. Demographic trends in Rural Europe 7. Reconciling Labour Mobility and Cohesion Policies 8. Business networks and translocal linkages and the way to the NRE 9. Agricultural Restructuring in the EU: An Irish Case Study III. Impacts and Opportunities for Intervention 10. Changing social characteristics, patterns of inequality and exclusion 11. Beyond the New Rural Paradigm: Project state and collective reflexive agency
About the author
Andrew K. Copus is an Economic Geographer with the Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Group at The James Hutton Institute, Scotland, UK.
Philomena de Lima is a Sociologist and the Director of the Centre for Rural and Remote Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness College, Scotland, UK.
Summary
This book reflects on how the economies, social characteristics, ways of life and global relationships of rural areas of Europe have changed in recent years. This book argues that Europe has "outgrown" many of the stereotypes usually associated with rural communities, with substantial implications for European rural policy.
