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The project addresses the challenges and opportunities of the meeting between the equality project of the Nordic welfare model and new and more culturally complex, family and lifestyles in Norway today. This is done by examining how gendered relationships are formed and transformed into two new groups - both of which can be regarded as central norm carriers and agents of change within the current gender discourse: i) Families who represent a growing and culturally influential cosmopolitan middle class and ii) the descendants of first generation immigrants with higher education who thus can be considered as part of an emerging middle class among minority groups. The empirical study will be based on narrative in-depth interviews in combination with participant observation. For further information about ”New Family Cultures: Gendered Intimacy Forms and Life Project in Reshaping, 2013”, please contact the principal investigator.