Kinship And Cohort In An Aging Society

Author : Merril Silverstein
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408945
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society written by Merril Silverstein and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to family sociologist Vern Bengtson, generations within families are important sources of influence, change, and development. Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society brings together scholars whose common link is their intellectual intersection with the work of Vern Bengtson, an esteemed family sociologist whose accomplishments include foundational theoretical contributions to the study of families and intergenerational relations as well as the development of the widely used Longitudinal Study of Generations data set. The study began in 1971 and is the basis for Bengtson’s highly influential concept and measurement model, the intergenerational solidarity-conflict paradigm. This book serves as an excellent compendium of original research that examines how Bengtson’s solidarity model, a theory that informs nearly all intergenerational and gerontology sociology work performed today, continues to be relevant to scholars and practitioners. Written by internationally recognized scholars, the book’s fifteen chapters are mapped to five major thematic areas to which Bengtson’s research contributed: family connections; grandparents in a changing demographic landscape; generations and cohorts (micro-macro dialectics); religion and families in the context of continuity, change, and conflict; and global cross-national and cross-ethnic concerns. Key strengths of the book include the diversity of foci and data sources and the strong attention given to global and international issues. Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society will appeal to scholars working in sociology, psychology, gerontology, family studies, and social work.

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Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0826165060
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 13, 1993 written by and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993-10-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past few decades, the dramatic social changes with regard to our aging population and changes in the family unit have made both demographic and socioeconomic consequences, as well as an effect on matters of social policy. The prestigious editors, George L. Maddox and M. Powell Lawton, have assembled an impressive group of expert contributors whose chapters address topics from the latest theory and research findings to the changing balance of work and families, as well as patterns of kinship.

Author : Vern L. Bengtson
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780202366326
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Aging and Its Challenge to Families written by Vern L. Bengtson and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent explosion in population aging across the globe represents one of the most remarkable demographic changes in human history. There is much concern about population aging and its consequences for nations, for governments, and for individuals. It has often been noted that population aging will inevitably affect the economic stability of most countries and the policies of most state governments. What is less obvious, but equally important, is that population aging will profoundly affect families. Who will care for the growing numbers of tomorrow's very old members of societies? Will it be state governments? The aged themselves? Their families? The purpose of this volume is to examine consequences of global aging for families and intergenerational support, and for nations as they plan for the future. Four remarkable social changes during the past fifty years are highlighted: (1) Extension of the life course: A generation has been added to the average span of life over the past century; (2) Changes in the age structures of nations: Most nations today have many more elders, and many fewer children, than fifty years ago; (3) Changes in family structures and relationships: Some of these differences are the result of trends in family structure, notably higher divorce rates and the higher incidence of childbearing to single parents; (4) Changes in governmental responsibilities: In the last decade, governmental responsibility appears to have slowed or reversed as states reduce welfare expenditures. How will families respond to twenty-first-century problems associated with population aging? Will families indeed be important in the twenty-first century, or will kinship and the obligations across generations become increasingly irrelevant, replaced by "personal communities"? This volume goes a considerable distance to answer these critical issues for the twenty-first century. Vern L. Bengtson is an AARP/University Chair in Gerontology and Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California. Ariela Lowenstein is associate professor and head, Department of Aging Studies, University of Haifa, Israel.

Author : Tamara K. Hareven
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780202364131
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging and Generational Relations written by Tamara K. Hareven and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aging and Generational Relations

Author : Tamara K. Hareven
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110875527
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging and Generational Relations over the Life Course written by Tamara K. Hareven and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Gek. Pb-Ausg. u.d.T. Aging and Generational Relations]

Author : Sarah Harper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199251169
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Families in Ageing Societies written by Sarah Harper and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western families are undergoing considerable change. The demographic ageing of societies is increasing the number of living generations, and decreasing the number of living relatives within these generations. These ageing societies are also seeing an ageing of some life- transitions, with individuals choosing to delay full economic independence from parents, formal adult union through marriage or committed long-term cohabitation, and parenting. Such demographic change is occurringwithin the context of a variety of new kin structures-stepfamilies, ethnic minority families, single-parent families, cohabiting couples. This volume takes an inter-disciplinary research approach to consider the implications of demographic ageing for European and American families.

Author : John M. Mogey
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aiding and Aging written by John M. Mogey and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990-07-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizens of all societies age both as biological beings and as members of households in the open community. Through joining a series of essays and survey analyses, John Mogey has constructed a book that examines the way aging affects those who are growing older as well as the institutions of their society. To study the relationships between aiding the elderly and the aging process, two very different societies--the United States and Hungary--were chosen for comparison. In both societies, support for the elderly comes from formal institutional programs as well as informal family arrangements, and it seems equally true in both cases that the elderly get most of their support through kinship assistance. Throughout the book, the focus remains on the need to encourage the persistence of the kinship system, and the necessity of public programs to actively support the maintenance of households. The volume is structured in three distinct sections: Households, Amity, and Lifestyle; Individuals, Kinship, and Networks; and Kinship, Lifestyle, and Policy. In each section, essays concentrate on the usual operations within communities that have elderly people in them, drawing data from the United States, Hungary (including information from a unique empirical study in Budapest), and six other countries. The essays also address the variety of demands that the kinship system places on public programs. Aiding and aging are common structural problems in all modern societies, and although each society will develop different policy solutions, all will use elements from the structures described in this collection. The book will be an important resource for courses in social work, social gerontology, and sociology, as well as an important addition to university and public libraries.

Author : Parin Dossa
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813588103
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work written by Parin Dossa and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin relationships—the work that enables a family to reproduce and regenerate itself across generations and across the globe.

Author : Linda Burton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351853384
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Families and Aging written by Linda Burton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complexity and diversity of families and aging has generated the necessity for research, policy, and program agendas that address emerging issues and needs for elderly Americans and their families. This volume is an effort towards that end - an effort towards fostering a different perspective at families and aging.

Author : Dennis P. Hogan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kin Structure and Assistance in Aging Societies written by Dennis P. Hogan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: