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Eric Widmer

Professor
Co-Director, Leader of CCI3, Member of IP1, Member of IP3, Member of IP5

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Université de Genève
Département de Sociologie
Bd du Pont d'Arve 40
CH-1211 Genève
T +41 22 379 83 02/03

LIVES Publications

Widmer, E., Viry, G., & Ganjour, O.. (2018). The intricacies of space and inclusiveness in family and personal networks. In O. Kapella, Schneider, N., & Rost, H. (Eds.), Familie – Bildung – Migration. Familienforschung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Wissenschaft, Politik und Praxis. Leverkusen, Deutschland: Verlag Barbara Budrich.
Wall, K., Widmer, E., Gauthier, J. - A., Cesnuityté, V., & Gouveia, R. (Eds.). (2018). Families and personal networks - An international comparative perspective. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life (1st ed., p. 254). London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/978-1-349-95263-2
Widmer, E., Gauthier, J. - A., Wall, K., Cesnuityté, V., & Gouveia, R.. (2018). Introduction. In E. Widmer, Gauthier, J. - A., Wall, K., Cesnuityté, V., & Gouveia, R. (Eds.), Families and personal networks (pp. 1–18). London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from www.palgrave.com/de/book/9781349952625
Wall, K., Cesnuityté, V., Widmer, E., & Gauthier, J. - A.. (2018). Conclusions. In K. Wall, Widmer, E., Gauthier, J. - A., Cesnuityté, V., & Gouveia, R. (Eds.), Families and personal networks: An international comparative perspective (pp. 225–238). London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781349952625#
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Widmer, E., Gouveia, R., Aeby, G., & Cesnuityté, V.. (2018). Understanding personal networks as social capital. In K. Wall, Widmer, E., Gauthier, J. - A., Cesnuityté, V., & Gouveia, R. (Eds.), Families and personal networks: An international comparative perspective (pp. 167–186). London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781349952625
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Gauthier, J. - A., Aeby, G., Ramos, V., & Cesnuityté, V.. (2018). Linking family trajectories and personal networks. In K. Wall, Widmer, E., Gauthier, J. - A., Cesnuityté, V., & Gouveia, R. (Eds.), Families and personal network: An international comparative perspective (pp. 187–223). London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781349952625
Aeby, G., Widmer, E., Cesnuityté, V., & Gouveia, R.. (2018). Mapping the plurality of personal configurations. In K. Wall, Widmer, E., Gauthier, J. - A., Cesnuityté, V., & Gouveia, R. (Eds.), Families and personal networks: an international perspective (pp. 131–166). London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781349952625
Wall, K., Gouveia, R., Aeby, G., & Cesnuityté, V.. (2018). Changing meanings of family in personal relationships: a comparative perspective. In K. Wall, Gouveia, R., Cesnuityté, V., Widmer, E., & Gauthier, J. - A. (Eds.), Families and personal networks: an international comparative perspective (pp. 99–130). London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781349952625#
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Gouveia, R., Aeby, G., & Cesnuityté, V.. (2018). A first portrait of personal networks in a comparative perspective. In R. Gouveia, Cesnuityté, V., Wall, K., Widmer, E., & Gauthier, J. - A. (Eds.), Families and personal networks: An international comparative perspective (pp. 61–97). London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/978-1-349-95263-2_3
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Ramos, V., Cesnuityté, V., Wall, K., & Joye, D.. (2018). Contextualising personal networks across birth cohorts and countries. In K. Wall, Widmer, E., Gauthier, J. - A., Cesnuityté, V., & Gouveia, R. (Eds.), Families and personal networks : An international comparative perspective (pp. 19-60). London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781349952625#
Aeby, G., Gauthier, J. - A., Gouveia, R., Ramos, V., & Wall, K.. (2017). The impact of co-residence trajectories on personal networks in the transition to adulthood: A comparative perspective. In V. Cesnuityté, Lück, D., & Widmer, E. (Eds.), Family continuity and change: Contemporary European perspectives (First., pp. 211-242). Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave.
Wall, K., Widmer, E., Gauthier, J. - A., Cesnuityté, V., & Gouveia, R. (Eds.). (2018). Families and personal networks: An international comparative perspective. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave McMillan. doi:10.1057/978-1-349-95263-2
Ruey, J., Rosenstein, E., Gouveia, R., & Widmer, E.. (2016). Le devenir professionnel des diplômés en sciences sociales entre 2005 et 2015. Geneva, Switzerland: Sociograph - Sociological Research Studies, Université de Genève.
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Widmer, E., & Spini, D.. (2017). Misleading norms and vulnerability in the life course: definition and illustrations. Research in Human Development, 14(1), 52-67. doi:10.1080/15427609.2016.1268894
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Sapin, M., & Widmer, E.. (2016). La transformation des réseaux personnels des femmes et des hommes durant la transition à la parentalité: Contraction des liens et gestation d'inégalités. In J. - M. Le Goff & Levy, R. (Eds.), Devenir parents, devenir inégaux. Transition à la parentalité et inégalités de genre (pp. 164-182). Zurich and Geneva, Switzerland: Seismo.
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Ganjour, O., & Widmer, E.. (2017). Family salience across nations: Configurations of morphological conditions. In Family continuity and change (First., pp. 33-59). London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Cesnuityté, V., Lück, D., & Widmer, E.. (2017). Conclusion. In Family continuity and change (First., pp. 27-31). London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Widmer, E., Cesnuityté, V., & Lück, D.. (2017). Introduction. In Family continuity and change (First., pp. 1-5). London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Widmer, E., Cesnuityté, V., & Lück, D. (Eds.). (2017). Family continuity and change (First.). London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Widmer, E., & Ganjour, O.. (2017). Family salience across nations: Configurations of morphological conditions. In V. Cesnuityté, Lück, D., & Widmer, E. (Eds.), Family continuity and change: Contemporary European perspectives (pp. 33-59). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave.
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Lück, D., Widmer, E., & Cesnuityté, V.. (2017). Conclusions: Changes and continuities in European family lives. In V. Cesnuityté, Lück, D., & Widmer, E. (Eds.), Family continuity and change: Contemporary European perspectives (pp. 313-328). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave.
Favez, N., Widmer, E., Doan, M. - T., & Tissot, H.. (2015). Coparenting in stepfamilies: Maternal promotion of family cohesiveness with partner and with father. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 14(11), 3268-3278. doi:10.1007/s10826-015-013-x
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Widmer, E., & Girardin, M.. (2016). Actively generating one's family: How elders shape their family configurations. In E. Scabini & Rossi, G. (Eds.), L'allungamento della vita. Une risorsa per la famiglia, un'opportunità per la società (Vol. 28, pp. 85-104). Milan, Italie: Vita E Pensiero.
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Widmer, E. (2016). La pluralisation des manières d'être en couple en Suisse. In Ehe und Partnerschaft zwischen Norm und Realität / Le mariage et le partenariat entre norme et réalité (First., Vol. 11, pp. 10-21). Bern: Akademien der wissenschaften Schweiz.
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Girardin, M., & Widmer, E.. (2015). Lay definitions of family and social capital in later life. Personal Relationships, 22(4), 712-737. doi:10.1111/pere.12107
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Milardo, R. M., Helms, H., Widmer, E., & Marks, S.. (2014). Social capitalization in personal relationships. In C. R. Agnew (Ed.), Social influences on romantic relationships: Beyond the dyad (pp. 33-57). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Widmer, E. (2014). Sociologie de la famille. Un demi-siècle de pluralisation des formes familiales, et après?. In P. Servais (Ed.), Regards sur la famille, le couple et la sexualité (pp. 35-46). Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia L'Harmattan.
Ammar, N., Gauthier, J. - A., & Widmer, E.. (2014). Trajectories of intimate partnerships, sexual attitudes, desire and satisfaction. Advances in Life Course Research, 22, 62-72. doi:10.1016/j.alcr.2014.06.001
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Widmer, E. (2014). Partnerships, family and personal configurations. In J. Treas, Scott, J., & Richards, M. (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell companion to the sociology of families (pp. 236-254). Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
Widmer, E. (2014). Marital quality and family configurations. In A. C. Michalos (Ed.), Encyclopedia of quality of life and well-being research (pp. 3800-3804). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_3921
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Sapin, M., Spini, D., & Widmer, E.. (2014). Les parcours de vie. De l'adolescence au grand âge. Le savoir suisse (2ndnd ed.). Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes.
Gabadinho, A., & Ritschard, G.. (2013). Searching for typical life trajectories applied to childbirth histories. In R. Levy & Widmer, E. (Eds.), Gendered life courses between individualization and standardization. A European approach applied to Switzerland (pp. 287-312). Vienna: LIT Verlag.
Widmer, E., Aeby, G., & Sapin, M.. (2013). Collecting family network data. International Review of Sociology, 23(1), 27-46. doi:10.1080/03906701.2013.771049
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Ertul, S., Melchior, J. - P., & Widmer, E.. (2013). Introduction. In N. Burnay, Ertul, S., & Melchior, J. - P. (Eds.), Travail, santé, éducation. Individualisation des parcours sociaux et inégalités (pp. 7-12). Paris: L'Harmattan.
Widmer, E., & Ritschard, G.. (2013). Parcours de vie: Une pluralisation "encastrée". In N. Burnay, Ertul, S., & Melchior, J. - P. (Eds.), Parcours sociaux et nouveaux desseins temporels (pp. 293-316). Paris: L'Harmattan.
Widmer, E. (2013). Editorial on the special issue "Geographical Mobilities and Family Lives". Comparative Population Studies, 38, 229-232. doi:10.4232/10.CPoS-2013-12en
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Gauthier, J. - A., Widmer, E., Bucher, P., & Notredame, C.. (2013). Optimal matching and its "costs". In R. Levy & Widmer, E. (Eds.), Gendered life courses between standardization and individualization. A European approach applied to Switzerland (pp. 265-286). Wien: LIT Verlag.
Gauthier, J. - A., Widmer, E., Bucher, P., & Notredame, C.. (2013). Multichannel optimal matching: A multidimensional approach to sequence analysis. In R. Levy & Widmer, E. (Eds.), Gendered life courses between standardization and individualization. A European approach applied to Switzerland (pp. 245-264). Wien: LIT Verlag.
Giudici, F., & Gauthier, J. - A.. (2013). Occupational trajectories after childbirth. In R. Levy & Widmer, E. (Eds.), Gendered life courses between standardization and individualization. A European approach applied to Switzerland (pp. 93-114). Wien: LIT Verlag.
Levy, R., Gauthier, J. - A., & Widmer, E.. (2013). Trajectories between the family and paid work. In R. Levy & Widmer, E. (Eds.), Gendered life courses between standardization and individualization. A European approach applied to Switzerland (pp. 71-92). Wien: LIT Verlag.
Widmer, E., & Gauthier, J. - A.. (2013). Cohabitational trajectories. In R. Levy & Widmer, E. (Eds.), Gendered life courses between standardization and individualization. A European approach applied to Switzerland (pp. 53-70). Wien: LIT Verlag.
Gauthier, J. - A. (2013). Optimal matching, a tool for comparing life-course sequences. In R. Levy & Widmer, E. (Eds.), Gendered life courses between standardization and individualization. A European approach applied to Switzerland (pp. 37-52). Wien: LIT Verlag.
Gauthier, J. - A., & Widmer, E.. (2013). The destruction of multiethnic locations: Markers of identity and the determinants of residential trajectories. In D. Spini, Elcheroth, G., & Corkalo Biruski, D. (Eds.), War, community and social change. Collective experiences in the Former Yugoslavia (pp. 85-98). New York: Springer.
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Widmer, E., & Kellerhals, J.. (2011). Cohesión, regulación y conflictos en las familias contemporáneas. In C. Bonvalet, Ogg, J., & Fernández Cordón, J. A. (Eds.), Panorama Europeo de la ayuda intrafamiliar: nueve encuestas (pp. 199-213). Paris: Institut national d'études démographiques.
Bernardi, L., & Oppo, A.. (2011). Couple formation as a transition between families. In R. Jallinoja & Widmer, E. (Eds.), Families and kinship in contemporary Europe: Rules and practices of relatedness (pp. 133-157). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Giudici, F., Widmer, E., & Ghisletta, P.. (2011). A sociological assessment of conjugal conflict. Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas, 67, 9-21.
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