Sharing Lives

Adult Children and Parents
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-12571-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 502 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Sociology

Sharing Lives looks at the most important human relationships, which last the longest time of our lives: those between adult children and their parents. Offering an excellent new reference point for studies in the sociology of family, the book focuses on the reasons and results of lifelong intergenerational solidarity by looking at individuals, families and societies.
This monograph combines theoretical reasoning with empirical research based on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The book focuses on the following areas:

- Adult family generations, from young adulthood to the end of life – and even beyond

- Contact, conflict, coresidence, money, time, inheritance

- Consequences of lifelong solidarity

- Family generations and the relationship of family and welfare state

- Connections between family cohesion and social inequality

Sharing Lives offers reliable findings on the basis of state-of-the-art methods and best available data, and presents these findings in an accessible manner. This book will appeal to researchers, policy makers and graduate students in the area of sociology, political science, psychology and economics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szydlik, Marc

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Concepts and contexts

3. Crisis? What crisis?

4. Contact: Staying in touch

5. Conflict: Quarrels and fights?

6. Space: Living together

7. Money: Financial support

8. Time: Who helps, who cares?

9. Inheritance: To him that hath

10. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Marc Szydlik is Professor of Sociology at the University of Zurich. He previously worked at the German Institute for Economic Research, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, the Free University of Berlin and the University of Erfurt. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard, Columbia, Oxford, Stanford and Cambridge Universities, and has published widely in the field of generations.