基本説明
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.
Full Description
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.
Contents
Foreword, by Toni C. Antonucci
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Solidarity as a Key Concept in Family and Generational Research
Part I: Family Connections: Solidarity Within and Across Generations
Chapter 1. Differences in Mothers' and Fathers' Parental Favoritism in Later Life: A Within-Family Approach
Chapter 2. Intergenerational Solidarity in Blended Families: The Inequality of Financial Transfers to Adult Children and Stepchildren
Chapter 3. Generational Contact and Support among Late Adult Siblings Within a Verticalized Family
Part II: Grandparents in a Changing Demographic Landscape: Mothers and Mentors
Chapter 4. Grandmothers' Diff erential Involvement with Grandchildren in Rural Multiple Partner Fertility Family Structures
Chapter 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
Chapter 6. Who's Talking about My Generation?
Chapter 7. Toward Generational Intelligence: Linking Cohorts, Families, and Experience
Chapter 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
Chapter 9. How Theory-Building Prompts Explanations about Generational Connections in the Domains of Religion, Spirituality, and Aging
Chapter 10. The Transmission of Religion across Generations: How Ethnicity Matters
Chapter 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?
Chapter 12. Global Aging and Families: Some Policy Concerns about the Global Aging Perspective
Chapter 13. Social Change, Social Structure, and the Cycle of Induced Solidarity
Chapter 14. The Intergenerational Social Contract Revisited: Cross-National Perspectives
Chapter 15. Aging, Health, and Families in the Hispanic Population: Evolution of a Paradigm
Short Biography of Vern L. Bengtson
List of Contributors
Index
