Merril Silverstein 
Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 24, 2004 [PDF ebook] 
Intergenerational Relations Across Time and Place

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This volume examines the importance of time and place, as applied to aging families. In the first section, chapters focus on the temporal dimension of intergenerational relations using frameworks from human development, sociology, social history, and social psychology. The second section focuses on the social ecology of intergenerational relations in terms of the national contexts within which families are embedded.

The contributors demonstrate how the social, cultural, historical, and institutional forces that orient older and younger family members toward each other in both structured and adaptive ways.

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Introduction

Section I: Intergenerational Relations Across Time

  • Ambivalence in Intergenerational Relations Over the Life-Course, K. Pillemer and J.J. Suitor

  • Antecedents of Intergenerational Support: Families in Context and Families as Context, A. Davey, J. Savla, and M. Janke

  • Charting the Intergenerational-Stake Over Historical and Biographical Time, R. Giarrusso, D. Feng, and V.L. Bengston

  • Historical Forces Shaping the Grandparent-Grandchild Relationship: Demography and Beyond, P. Uhlenberg

  • Stability and Change in Childhood and Parenting: Observations Across Three Generations, I. Connidis

  • Intergenerational Relations in Families with Developmentally Disabled Children, D. Hogan and J. Park
  • Section II: Intergenerational Relations Across Place

  • Transmigration from India to the UK and the Maintenance of Intergenerational Relationships, V. Burholt and G.C. Wenger

  • The Role of Social Context in Shaping Intergenerational Relations in Indonesia and Bangladesh, E. Frankenberg and R. Kuhn

  • Intergenerational Relations and Norms in a Comparative Cross-National European and Israeli Perspectives, A. Lowenstein, R. Katz, and S.O. Daatland

  • Intergenerational Exchange in the US and Japan, T. Antonucci and H. Akiyama

  • Intergenerational Family Relations in the US and China, J. Logan and F. Bian

  • Intergenerational Transfers and Inheritance: A Comparative View, M. Kohli

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