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Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Table of Contents:

• Family connections : solidarity within and across generations. Differences in mothers' and fathers' parental favoritism in later life : a within-family approach / J. Jill Suitor and Karl Pillemer ; Intergenerational solidarity in blended families : the inequality of financial transfers to adult children and stepchildren / R. Corey Remle and Angela M. O'Rand ; Generational contact and support among late adult siblings within a verticalized family / Kees Knipscheer and Theo van Tilburg
• Grandparents in a changing demographic landscape : mothers and mentors. Grandmothers' differential involvement with grandchildren in rural multiple partner fertility family structures / Linda M. Burton, Whitney Welsh and Lane M. Destro ; The role of grandparents in the transition to adulthood : grandparents as "very important" adults in the lives of adolescents / Miles G. Taylor, Peter Uhlenberg, Glen H. Elder, Jr., and Steve McDonald
• Of generations and cohorts : micro-macro dialectics. Who's talking about my generation? / Duane F. Alwin ; Toward generational intelligence : linking cohorts, families, and experience / Simon Biggs and Ariela Lowenstein ; Biography and generation : spirituality and biographical pain at the end of life in old age / Malcolm Johnson
• Religion and families : contexts of continuity, change and conflict. How theory-building prompts explanations about generational connections in the domains of religion, spirituality, and aging / W. Andrew Achenbaum ; The transmission of religion across generations : how ethnicity matters / Norella M. Putney, Joy Y. Lam, Frances Nedjat-Haiem, Thien-Huong Ninh, Petrice S. Oyama, and Susan C. Harris ; Church-based negative interactions among older African Americans, Caribbean Blacks, and non-Hispanic whites / Karen D. Lincoln, Linda M. Chatters, and Robert Joseph Taylor
• Global, cross-national, and cross-ethnic issues : who will care for the young and the old?. Global aging and families : some policy concerns about the global aging perspective / Victor W. Marshall ; Social change, social structure, and the cycle of induced solidarity / Dale Dannefer and Rebecca A. Siders ; The intergenerational social contract revisited : cross-national perspectives / Christopher Steven Marcum and Judith Treas ; Aging, health and families in the Hispanic population : evolution of a paradigm / Kyriakos S. Markides, Ronald J. Angel, and M. Kristen Peek
• Short biography of Vern L. Bengtson
• List of contributors.

Contributors:

Silverstein, Merril

Giarrusso, Roseann

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Families

Families — Cross-cultural studies

Intergenerational relations

Intergenerational relations — Cross-cultural studies

Older people — Family relationships

General Notes:

Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HQ519 .K56 2013eb

ISBNs:

9781421408941 (electronic bk.)
1421408945 (electronic bk.)
9781421408934 [Invalid]
1421408937 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 40022624703

OCLC Numbers:

862780780

Other Control Numbers:

EBC3318761 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11330568