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The neighbourhoods and social networks we examined in the previous chapter have been described as ‘mesosystems’ — it is these that link individual agency with social structures and institutions (see Cochran et al. 1990 for the relationship between the three levels). The relationship between structure and agency also features in debates about lone motherhood. The essential question here is the extent to which lone mothers create and make sense of their own lives within constraints that they have little or no power to alter.
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Duncan, S., Edwards, R. (1999). Lone Mothers and Gendered Moral Rationalities: Orientations to Paid Work. In: Lone Mothers, Paid Work and Gendered Moral Rationalities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230509689_4
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