ISBN:
9781351328142
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (359 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Series Statement:
Life Course and Aging
Parallel Title:
Print version Bengtson, Vern Global Aging and Challenges to Families
DDC:
305.26
Keywords:
Intergenerational relations
Abstract:
Cover Page -- Half title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Global Aging and the Challenge to Families -- The Realities Of Population Aging -- Population Aging: A New Phenomenon -- The Changing Age Structures of Societies: From Pyramids to Rectangularization -- Consequences Of Population Aging For Families -- Family Structures Have Changed: From Pyramids to Beanpoles -- The âKin Supplyâ Structure across Generations Has Changed -- There Are Longer Years of âShared Livesâ across Generations -- Trends In Intergenerational Relationships And Aging -- Intergenerational Relationships Are Consistent and Strong over Time -- Intergenerational Relationships Are Increasingly Diverse -- Intergenerational Relations Have Not Declined, Though Family Structures Have Changed -- Setting A Future Agenda For Research And Policy On Aging: Families And Social Support From An International Perspective -- Conclusion -- Part 1 Theoretical Perspectives -- 2 Theories about Families, Organizations, and Social Supports -- Traditional Family Theories And Organizational Effectiveness -- The Empirical Reality Of Primary Group Behavior In Contemporary Society -- Extended Kin Structures Are Powerful Factors in Contemporary Industrial Society -- The Family Has Not Lost Its Functions to Large Formal Organizations But Has Gone into Partnership with Them -- Friends, Neighbors, Work Friends, and Crisis Support Groups -- Task-Specific Organizational Effectiveness Theory And The Partnership Of Formal Organizations And Primary Groups -- Formal Organizations Optimize Tasks Requiring Technical Knowledge -- Organizational Dimensions That Optimize Technical Knowledge: Comparing Monocratic Bureaucracies and Nuclear Families -- Science and Technology Require Partnership between Primary Groups and Formal Organizations
Abstract:
Task-Specific Theory: Matching Dimensions of Groups with Dimensions of Tasks -- Diversity Of Primary Groups And Effects Variables Other Than Organizational Design -- Diversity from Modal Type -- Interaction of Task-Specific Theories and Other Causal Variables -- Balancing Forces Of Conflicts And Cohesion -- Conclusion -- 3 From Family Groups to Personal Communities -- Family Change And Social Theory -- Families As Generations -- Personal Communities And The Provision Of Support -- The New Sociology Of Family Life In Old Age -- Family Life And Personal Communities -- Social Capital And Social Support -- Political Economy And Social Support -- Conclusion -- 4 Grandparents and Grandchildren in Family Systems -- Background -- Grandparents as Heroic Family Contributors -- Diversity in Grandparenting -- The Impact of Divorce on Grandparenting -- Effects of Grandparenting on Grandchildren in Crisis -- A Life Course Perspective On Grandparenting -- Linked Lives -- Multiple Time Clocks -- Long-Term Dynamics -- Social-Cultural Context -- Summary -- Empirical Illustrations Of The Life Course Approach To Grandparenting -- Contribution of Grandparents to the Well-Being of Grandchildren -- Sample -- Dimensions of Grandparent-Grandchild Relations -- Cross-Generational Differences: Historical Effects -- Long-Term Trajectories: Grandparents from Age 60 to 85 -- Linked Lives Over Time: The Intergenerational Stake -- Ethnic Culture: Anglo vs. Mexican-American -- Social Ecology: Urban vs. Rural -- Linked Lives: Effects of Divorce in the Middle Generation -- Grandparents as Moderators of Grandchild Well-Being -- Conclusion -- 5 Older People and Family in Social Policy -- A Neoliberal Story Of Aging And The Family -- A Social-Democratic Story Of Aging And The Family -- The Ups And Downs Of âGrandparentingâ Policy -- Living With Multiple Narratives
Abstract:
Concluding Comments -- Part 2 Theoretical Perspectives -- 6 Intergenerational Transfers in the Family -- Introduction -- Transfer Motives: An Overview -- Why Ask for Motives? -- The Range of Transfer Motives -- The Empirical Structure Of Motives -- Conclusions -- 7 Family Characteristics and Loneliness among Older Parents -- Characteristics Of A Family As A Whole -- Method -- Sample -- Measurements -- Procedure -- Results -- Discussion -- 8 Disposable Children -- The Argument -- Love And Care -- Cases In Point -- Discussion: Modernity And Intragenerational Ties -- Part III Intrasociety Diversity in Intergenerational Support -- 9 Israeli Attitudes about Inter Vivos Transfers -- Introduction -- Attitudes in Israel about Intergenerational Transfers -- The Analytic Strategy -- Determinants of the Transfer Attitudes -- Assistance with a Home Purchase -- Parental Support for Schooling, Ongoing Assistance, and a Car Purchase -- Attitudes and Behavior -- A More General Structural Model -- Conclusions and Policy Implications -- 10 Social Network Structure and Utilization of Formal Public Support in Israel -- Older People and Social Networks -- Research Methods -- Study Variables -- Analysis -- Results -- Discussion -- 11 Family Transfers and Cultural Transmissions Between Three Generations in France -- Presentation of the Trigenerational Research -- At the Crossroads of Historical Generations, Family Generations, and âWelfareâ Generations -- Characteristics of the Three Generations -- Social and Geographical Context of the Relations -- Social Mobility -- Geographic Distance -- Measurement and Variations of Relational Intensity -- Marriage Breakdowns and Relations between Generations -- The Main Flows of Transfers -- The Perceived Gift and the Actual Gift -- Exchanges of Money, Time, and Home-Related Help
Abstract:
Care for Grandchildren versus Care for Elderly Parents -- Monetary Transfers -- Home-Related Exchanges -- Time Giving and Reciprocity between Generations -- Cultural Continuities and Discontinuities Across the Generations -- The Smoothing Out of an Authoritarian Education -- Decline and Transmission of Religious Practices -- Gendered Generations -- Generational Relations and Social Change -- Conclusion -- Part IV Intrasociety Changes in Intergenerational Support -- 12 Changing Roles of the Family and State for Elderly Care -- Changes in Confucianism and Filial Piety -- Filial Piety in the Traditional Period -- Confucianism and Filial Piety in the Contemporary Period -- The Family and the State in the Aging Korean Society -- Interaction within the Family -- Living Arrangement of Parents -- The State and Elderly Care -- The State and Elderly Care after the Welfare Reform -- Summary and Discussion -- 13 Intergenerational Relationships of Japanese Seniors -- Ideal Ways of Family Life in the First Half of the Twentieth Century -- Changes During the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century -- Recent Patterns of Intergenerational Relationships -- Variety of Coresidence -- Everyday Interactions -- Intergenerational Relationships in the Twenty-First Century -- 14 âModernizationâ and Economic Strain -- Introduction -- Explanations of the Decline in the Literature -- âModernization and Agingâ Theoryâs Explanation -- Conceptual Limitations in Modernization and Aging Theoryâs Explanation -- Materialist Explanation -- Conceptual Limitations in the Materialist Explanation -- Epistemological Limitations in Both Explanations -- Developing A Fuller Understanding of the Nature and Causes of the Decline Empirically -- Methods and Approach -- Patterns and Costs of Support in the Past -- The Motivational Basis of Support -- Nature of the Decline in Support
Abstract:
Causes of the Decline in Support -- Summary and Conclusion -- Material Change Drives Normative Change? -- Part V Intra- and Intersociety Differences and Social Change -- 15 Family Norms and Preferences in Intergenerational Relations -- Introduction -- Review of Earlier Studies -- Filial Responsibility Norms and Expectations -- Intergenerational Attitudes on the Societal Level -- Conceptual Approaches -- The Oasis Project -- The Attitudinal Component -- Attitudes to Future Responsibility -- The Relational Component -- Concluding Remarks -- 16 The Role of Family for Quality of Life in Old Age -- Introduction -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Family Structure and Relations -- Family and the Welfare State -- Quality of Life: Reflections on the Concept -- Family Structures and Quality of Life: Hypotheses -- Method -- Results -- Descriptive Results -- Theory-Driven Analyses -- Conclusions -- 17 Ethnic and Cultural Differences in Intergenerational Social Support -- Ethnic and Cultural Differences in Intergenerational Social Support -- Defining Generations -- Worldwide Generational Issues -- Social Support Across Cultures, Race, Ethnic Groups, and Generations -- A Life-Span Multigenerational View of Reciprocity -- Summary and Conclusions -- 18 Challenges of Global Aging to Families in the Twenty-First Century
Permalink
