ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the analytical shift in the ‘Care Systems in Bremen’ project, a qualitative study of informal caring in two districts in Bremen, a city in Germany.1 It examines the shift in the analysis stage of the project, in which the hermeneutic case-study approach in analysing personal accounts about caring and being cared for at home is modified to examine structural features of class,2 welfare system and family relations as emergent themes across cases. In particular, the chapter discusses the role of Giddens’ structuration theory in the development of the analytical framework.
