1st Edition

The Myth of Generational Conflict The Family and State in Ageing Societies

Edited By Sara Arber, Claudine Attias-Donfut Copyright 2000
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

The ageing of Western societies has provoked extensive sociological debate, surrounding both the role of the state and whether it can afford the cost of an ageing population, and the role of the family, especially women, in supporting older people. In this important book, the authors examine how changes, such as cuts in welfare provision, migration, urbanization and individualisation influence... Read more
1. Equity and solidarity across the generations Claudine Attias-Donfut and Sara Arber 2. The redistributive effects of generational transfers Claudine Attias-Donfut and Francois-Charles Wolff 3. Complementarity between private and public transfers Claudine Attias-Donfut and Francois-Charles Wolff 4. Wealth distribution between generations: A source of conflict or cohesion? Lars Gulbrandsen and Asmund Langsether 5. Families apart? Intergenerational transfers in East and West Germany Martin Kohli, Harald Kunemund, Andreas Motel and Marc Szydlik 6. Generational relations and the law Marjatta Marin 7. Discontinuous change and generational contracts Henk Becker 8. Gender, the generational contract and pension privatisation Jay Ginn and Sara Arber 9. Trail-blazers and path followers: Social reproduction and geographical mobility in youth Gill Jones 10. The transmission of life stories from ethnic minority fathers to their children: personal resource to promote social integration. Catherine Delcroix 11. Reinventing the generational contract: anticipating caregiving responsibilities of younger Germans and Turkish migrants Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer and Angela Grotheer 12. Continuity and change: The family and community life of older people in the 1990s. Miriam Bernard, Judith Phillips, Chris Phillipson and Jim Ogg

Biography

Sara Arber is the President of The British Sociological Association, 1999-2001