Kinship And Demographic Behavior In The Past

Author : Tommy Bengtsson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 140206733X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinship and Demographic Behavior in the Past written by Tommy Bengtsson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intergenerational research is crucial in understanding long term demographic trends. This book examines the ways kinship affects demographic behavior, including mortality patterns to determine the influence of fertility patterns, the contribution of parents’ longevity, and the affects of a family history of disease. It emphasizes the importance of studies that include and compare other factors related to social organization with information on multi-generational families.

Author : Robert Keresmis Sembiring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demographic Treatment of Kinship written by Robert Keresmis Sembiring and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309050855
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demography of Aging written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States and the rest of the world face the unprecedented challenge of aging populations, this volume draws together for the first time state-of-the-art work from the emerging field of the demography of aging. The nine chapters, written by experts from a variety of disciplines, highlight data sources and research approaches, results, and proposed strategies on a topic with major policy implications for labor forces, economic well-being, health care, and the need for social and family supports.

Author : Gerald Lyman Soliday
Publisher : Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus-International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Family and Kinship written by Gerald Lyman Soliday and published by Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus-International Publications. This book was released on 1980 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Merril Silverstein
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408937
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( 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 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.

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.

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780866561365
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family History written by and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious volume of studies of the origins and trends in family history of major geographical areas.

Author : Suzanne E. Joseph
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813059968
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fertile Bonds written by Suzanne E. Joseph and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides rich new ethnographic material on a little-known population, the Bedouin of the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. It positions such marginal populations in the broader theoretical context of modernization and health and demographic transitions."--Allan G. Hill, Harvard University With an average of over nine children per family, older cohorts of Bedouin in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon have one of the highest fertility rates in the world. Many married couples in this pastoral community are close relatives--a socially advantageous practice that reflects the deep value Bedouins place on kinship. To outsiders, such family norms can seem disturbing, even premodern. They attract assumptions of Arab "backwardness," poverty, and sexism. Remarkably, Fertile Bonds flips these stereotypes. Anthropological demographer Suzanne Joseph shows that in this particular group, prolific birth rates coincide with moderate death rates and high levels of nutrition. Despite broader class differences between Bedouins and peasants, members of Bekaa Bedouin society rely heavily on kinship ties, sharing, and reciprocity and experience a high degree of social and demographic equality. This story, unfamiliar to many, is one that is fading as traditional nomadic livelihoods give way to encapsulation within the state. With the help of this surprising, nuanced study--one of the first of its kind in the Middle East--knowledge of such marginalized pastoral groups will not vanish with the disappearance of their way of life. Joseph’s book expands our understanding of peoples far removed from consolidated government control and provides a broad analytical lens through which to examine demographic divides across the globe. .

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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 : Susan De Vos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The demography of kinship and the life course written by Susan De Vos and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: