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By Merril Silverstein,Roseann Giarrusso

Kinship and Cohort in an getting older Society brings jointly students whose universal hyperlink is their highbrow intersection with the paintings of Vern Bengtson, an esteemed kin sociologist whose accomplishments comprise foundational theoretical contributions to the research of households and intergenerational family in addition to the advance of the generally used Longitudinal examine of Generations facts set. The research all started in 1971 and is the root for Bengtson’s hugely influential proposal and size version, the intergenerational solidarity-conflict paradigm. This e-book serves as a superb compendium of unique study that examines how Bengtson’s cohesion version, a conception that informs approximately all intergenerational and gerontology sociology paintings played this present day, remains to be suitable to students and practitioners.

Written by means of the world over well-known students, the book’s fifteen chapters are mapped to 5 significant thematic parts to which Bengtson’s study contributed: relatives connections; grandparents in a altering demographic panorama; generations and cohorts (micro-macro dialectics); faith and households within the context of continuity, swap, and clash; and international cross-national and cross-ethnic issues. Key strengths of the publication comprise the range of foci and information assets and the robust realization given to international and overseas issues.

Kinship and Cohort in an getting older Society will entice students operating in sociology, psychology, gerontology, relations reports, and social work.]]>

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