Full Description
This book explores generation as both a reference to family or kinship structures, and a reference to cohorts or age sets. The principal objective is branching out this two-part concept through studies of tensions and solidarity within and between generations of advanced and robust welfare states.
Answering key questions using multiple disciplinary approaches, the book considers how generations challenge advanced and robust welfare states; how new and young generations are affected by living in an advanced welfare state with older generations; how tensions or solidarity are understood when facing challenges; and what the key characteristics are of certain generation types. It contributes to the development of a more comprehensive generation approach within social sciences by developing the concept of generation by exploring different challenges to the welfare state such as migration, digitalization, environmental damages, demands for sustainability, and marginalization. Highlighting the escalating tensions and altered versions of solidarity between generations, this book shows how a comprehensive concept of a generation can create new insights into how we collectively coordinate and resolve challenges through the welfare state.
It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy, sociology, political science, and social anthropology.
Contents
1. Generational Tensions and Solidarity Within Advanced Welfare States. Part 1. The Politics of Generations. 2. The welfare state and economic redistribution between overlapping generations - normative theories applied to two contemporary debates. 3. The age-profile of European welfare states: a source of intergenerational conflict? 4. Solidarity with Future Generations? - Protection clauses in constitutions. Part 2. Generations Within Families. 5. Thinking through generation: On parenting and belonging among adult children of immigrants in Norway. 6. The Welfare state and family: Intergenerational tensions and solidarity within the housing sector. 7. Will more education work? Economic marginalization and educational inequalities across birth cohorts 1955 - 1980. Part 3. Historical and Ascriptive Generations. 8. The Digital Generation. Representations of a generational digital divide. 9. The Baby-boomer generation: Another breed of elderly people? 10. Social generations in popular culture. 11. Solidarity and Tension Across Generations in Welfare Democracies. 12. Generational Analysis of the Advanced Welfare State.
