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Brings together researchers from 22 countries, who frame intergenerational family solidarity in the specific historical, cultural, social and economic context of their own country. Integrating different perspectives, the book offers country-specific knowledge and new insights into family relations, family values and family policies across Europe.

Brings together researchers from 22 countries, who frame intergenerational family solidarity in the specific historical, cultural, social and economic context of their own country. Integrating different perspectives, the book offers country-specific knowledge and new insights into family relations, family values and family policies across Europe.

This is an edited (introduced and annotated) book by the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky who belongs to the most well-known social scientists of the previous century. The book deals with an aspect of his life and work that is little known, notably his involvement with child studies.

What our project tries to present throughout this book is that money is not only just a tool of exchange in the context of the market economy; but, it also serves as a tool to mediate human relationships in individual cultures; and the tool is used and mediated by norms.

What our project tries to present throughout this book is that money is not only just a tool of exchange in the context of the market economy; but, it also serves as a tool to mediate human relationships in individual cultures; and the tool is used and mediated by norms.

What sparks a psychologist's interest in a certain phenomenon? Is it a symptom, a syndrome, a treatment, the usual, the exceptional, the group, the individual? An epistemologist focuses on the group and delivers group results. The clinician has to focus on the patient. The patient usually focuses on the clinician. These dynamics are critically reflected in this book.

What sparks a psychologist's interest in a certain phenomenon? Is it a symptom, a syndrome, a treatment, the usual, the exceptional, the group, the individual? An epistemologist focuses on the group and delivers group results. The clinician has to focus on the patient. The patient usually focuses on the clinician. These dynamics are critically reflected in this book.

Deals with the experience of ambivalence in family relations - a well-known phenomenon that has inspired more and more research and theorizing in the last years but that is however sometimes difficult to capture. Bringing together junior and senior researchers from different parts of the world, ideas on theory and research are elaborated following qualitative and quantitative approaches.