Of Human Bonding - Parent-Child Relations Across the Life Course

This life-course analysis of family development focuses on the social dynamics among family members. It features parent-child relationships in a larger context, by examining the help exchange between kin and nonkin and the intergenerational transmission of family characteristics.

List of contents

I: Introduction; 1: Problem and Design; II: The Organization of Lives: Age, Aging, and Kinship; 2: Age and Aging; 3: Age, Historic Charge, and Kinship; III: Normative Obligations to Kin; 4: The Structure of Kinship Norms; 5: Variation in obligations to Kin; IV: Dimensions of Parent-Child Solidarity; 6: Solidarity Overview and Analysis Model; 7: Affectional Ties: Past and Preset; 8: Social Interaction between the Generation; 9: Help Exchange between the Generations; 10: Help beyond Death: Legators and Beneficiaries and Written Wills; V: Summary; 11: Overview and Looking Ahead

About the author

Alice S. Rossi, Peter Henry Rossi

Summary

This life-course analysis of family development focuses on the social dynamics among family members. It features parent-child relationships in a larger context, by examining the help exchange between kin and nonkin and the intergenerational transmission of family characteristics.

Product details

• Authors: Alice S. Rossi, Alice S. Rossi Rossi, Peter H. Rossi, Peter Henry Rossi, Rossi Alice S.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781138529038
• ISBN: 978-1-138-52903-8
• No. of pages: 560
• Series: Social Institutions and Social Change Series; Social Institutions and Social Change Series
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Parent & Adult Child, Sociology: family & relationships, Sociology: family and relationships