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Conclusions

Karin Wall, Vida Česnuitytė, Eric D. Widmer,

and Jacques-Antoine Gauthier

The main aim of this book has been to examine and compare personal
networks in three European countries in the early twenty-first century.
Two major concerns have driven the book’s research agenda and the issues
discussed.
The first was to understand the impact of late modernity on the chang-
ing patterns of personal and family relationships. Many factors have con-
tributed to these changes, but one of the most important has been the

K. Wall (*)
Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

V. Česnuitytė
Sociological Research Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University,
Vilnius, Lithuania

E.D. Widmer
Department of Sociology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

J.-A. Gauthier
Life Course and Social Inequality Research Centre, University of Lausanne,
Lausanne, Switzerland