ISBN:
9781421408934
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (367 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society : From Generation to Generation
DDC:
306.85
Keywords:
Older people Family relationships
;
Intergenerational relations Cross-cultural studies
;
Families Cross-cultural studies
;
Families
;
Intergenerational relations
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society will appeal to scholars working in sociology, psychology, gerontology, family studies, and social work.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Solidarity as a Key Concept in Family and Generational Research -- PART I. FAMILY CONNECTIONS: SOLIDARITY WITHIN AND ACROSS GENERATIONS -- 1 Differences in Mothers' and Fathers' Parental Favoritism in Later Life: A Within-Family Approach -- 2 Intergenerational Solidarity in Blended Families: The Inequality of Financial Transfers to Adult Children and Stepchildren -- 3 Generational Contact and Support among Late Adult Siblings within a Verticalized Family -- PART II. GRANDPARENTS IN A CHANGING DEMOGRAPHIC LANDSCAPE: MOTHERS AND MENTORS -- 4 Grandmothers' Differential Involvement with Grandchildren in Rural Multiple Partner Fertility Family Structures -- 5 The Role of Grandparents in the Transition to Adulthood: Grandparents as "Very Important" Adults in the Lives of Adolescents -- PART III. OF GENERATIONS AND COHORTS: MICRO-MACRO DIALECTICS -- 6 Who's Talking about My Generation? -- 7 Toward Generational Intelligence: Linking Cohorts, Families, and Experience -- 8 Biography and Generation: Spirituality and Biographical Pain at the End of Life in Old Age -- PART IV. RELIGION AND FAMILIES: CONTEXTS OF CONTINUITY, CHANGE, AND CONFLICT -- 9 How Theory-Building Prompts Explanations about Generational Connections in the Domains of Religion, Spirituality, and Aging -- 10 The Transmission of Religion across Generations: How Ethnicity Matters -- 11 Church-Based Negative Interactions among Older African Americans, Caribbean Blacks, and Non-Hispanic Whites -- PART V. GLOBAL, CROSS-NATIONAL, AND CROSS-ETHNIC ISSUES: WHO WILL CARE FOR THE YOUNG AND THE OLD? -- 12 Global Aging and Families: Some Policy Concerns about the Global Aging Perspective -- 13 Social Change, Social Structure, and the Cycle of Induced Solidarity.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction. Solidarity as a Key Concept in Family and Generational Research""; ""PART I. FAMILY CONNECTIONS: SOLIDARITY WITHIN AND ACROSS GENERATIONS""; ""1 Differences in Mothers� and Fathers� Parental Favoritism in Later Life: A Within-Family Approach""; ""2 Intergenerational Solidarity in Blended Families: The Inequality of Financial Transfers to Adult Children and Stepchildren""; ""3 Generational Contact and Support among Late Adult Siblings within a Verticalized Family""
Description / Table of Contents:
""PART II. GRANDPARENTS IN A CHANGING DEMOGRAPHIC LANDSCAPE: MOTHERS AND MENTORS""""4 Grandmothers� Differential Involvement with Grandchildren in Rural Multiple Partner Fertility Family Structures""; ""5 The Role of Grandparents in the Transition to Adulthood: Grandparents as “Very Important� Adults in the Lives of Adolescents""; ""PART III. OF GENERATIONS AND COHORTS: MICRO-MACRO DIALECTICS""; ""6 Who�s Talking about My Generation?""; ""7 Toward Generational Intelligence: Linking Cohorts, Families, and Experience""
Description / Table of Contents:
""8 Biography and Generation: Spirituality and Biographical Pain at the End of Life in Old Age""""PART IV. RELIGION AND FAMILIES: CONTEXTS OF CONTINUITY, CHANGE, AND CONFLICT""; ""9 How Theory-Building Prompts Explanations about Generational Connections in the Domains of Religion, Spirituality, and Aging""; ""10 The Transmission of Religion across Generations: How Ethnicity Matters""; ""11 Church-Based Negative Interactions among Older African Americans, Caribbean Blacks, and Non-Hispanic Whites""
Description / Table of Contents:
""PART V. GLOBAL, CROSS-NATIONAL, AND CROSS-ETHNIC ISSUES: WHO WILL CARE FOR THE YOUNG AND THE OLD?""""12 Global Aging and Families: Some Policy Concerns about the Global Aging Perspective""; ""13 Social Change, Social Structure, and the Cycle of Induced Solidarity""; ""14 The Intergenerational Social Contract Revisited: Cross-National Perspectives""; ""15 Aging, Health, and Families in the Hispanic Population: Evolution of a Paradigm""; ""Short Biography""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""
Description / Table of Contents:
""O""""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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