Research Catalog

Title

Social structure and the family: generational relations. Edited by Ethel Shanas [and] Gordon F. Streib.

Author

Symposium on the Family, Intergenerational Relations and Social Structure (1963 : Duke University)

Publication

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1965]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Shanas, Ethel
• Streib, Gordon F., 1918-2011
• Duke University. Program in Socio-Economic Studies of Aging.
• Gerontological Society. Psychological and Social Science Section.

Description

xii, 394 pages; 25 cm

Series Statement

Prentice-Hall sociology series

Uniform Title

Prentice-Hall sociology series.

Subject

• Families
• Older people
• Aged
• Family
• elderly
• Families
• Older people
• Gezinsrelaties
• Families > Congresses
• Social structure > Congresses
• Older people > Family relationships > Congresses
• Intergenerational relations > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "A report of a symposium sponsored by the Program in Socio-economic Studies of Aging, Duke University, and the Special Projects Committee, the Psychological and Social Sciences[s] Section of the Gerontological Society."

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents

pt. 1 Introduction: 1. Social structure and the family: generational relations: an introduction / Gordon F. Streib and Ethel Shanas -- pt. 2 The individual as the focus of analysis: 2. Psychodynamics and the three-generation family / Alvin I. Goldfarb -- 3. Social work and family relationships in later life with some thoughts on filial maturity / Margaret Blenkner -- pt. 3 Empirical studies in the United States: 4. Relationships of adult children with their parents in the United States / Marvin B. Sussman -- 5. Nuclear and extended family relationships: a normative and behavioral analysis / Alan C. Kerckhoff -- 6. Decision making and the family life cycle / Reuben Hill -- pt. 4 Cross-societal studies: 7. Relations between generations and the three-generation household in Denmark / Jan Stehouwer -- 8. The effects of family structure on the likelihood of admission to an institution in old age: the application of a general theory / Peter Townsend -- 9. Intergenerational tensions and extended family structures in Africa / Robert A. Le Vine -- pt. 5 Social welfare, the law, the economy: 10. Social welfare and its implications for family living / Margaret Keeney Rosenheim -- 11. Motivation of intergenerational behavior by norms of law / Max Rheinstein -- 12. The economics of intergenerational relationships / Juanita M. Kreps -- pt. 6 Theoretical perspective: 13. Extended kin relations in an industrial democratic society / Eugene Litwak -- pt. 7 Commentary and criticism: 14. A social psychologist looks at kinship structure / Kurt W. Back -- 15. Intergenerational relationships: problems and proposals / Irving Rosow.

LCCN

65025258

OCLC

• ocm00259732
• 259732
• SCSB-165640

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library