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Personal narratives, relational selves: residential histories in the living and telling

Jennifer Mason
- 01 May 2004 - 
- Vol. 52, Iss: 2, pp 162-179
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In this article, the authors examine how people in a qualitative study in the context of debates about how far social identity and agency should be seen as individualised or relational concepts, and how people respond to questions about their own identities and agency.
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This article is set in the context of debates about how far social identity and agency should be seen as individualised or relational concepts. It examines how people in a qualitative study in the ...

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Re-thinking residential mobility: Linking lives through time and space

TL;DR: It is contended that residential mobility and immobility should be re-conceptualized as relational practices that link lives through time and space while connecting people to structural conditions.
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Geographies of Social Networks: Meetings, Travel and Communications

TL;DR: The past decade has seen striking increases in travel and in communications at-a-distance through mobile phone calls, text messaging and email as discussed by the authors, and people in prosperous societies are both travelling and communicating at the same time.
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Fixed identities in a mobile world? the relationshipbetween mobility, place, and identity

TL;DR: The authors argue that both mobility and place are essential components of identity construction and discuss the complex interrelationships between mobility, place, and identity, with reference to their own research into the migration experiences of a group of young adults.
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Narrative in Social Research

Tim May
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The Normal Chaos of Love

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss Free Love, Free Divorce and All For Love of a Child: Love, Our Secular Religion, Love or Freedom, Love to Liaison and Eve's Late Apple.
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Negotiating family responsibilities

TL;DR: This chapter discusses the role of reputations and Moral Identities in the Negotiation of Family Responsibilities and the challenges of balancing Responsibilities: Dependence and Independence.
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Intimacy transformed? a critical look at the ‘pure relationship’

TL;DR: In this paper, it has been claimed that a particular form of intimacy, "the pure relationship" is increasingly sought in personal life, which involves opening out to each other, enjoying each other's unique qualities and sustaining trust through mutual disclosure.