How Families Still Matter - A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations

Klappentext Offers surprising findings about the strength of family influence on children's careers and achievements. Zusammenfassung This book casts doubt on much of the common wisdom about family decline during the last decades of the twentieth century. It finds that parents are no less important in shaping the careers and achievements of youth than they were a generation ago! despite divorce and working mothers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Families, generations, and achievement orientations of youth; 2. Models and methods of intergenerational influences; 3. The changing contexts of family life since the 1960s; 4. Educational and occupational aspirations of youth across generations; 5. Self-esteem: self-confidence and self-deprecation of youth; 6. Value orientations: youth's individualism and materialism across generations; 7. Continuity and change in family influences across generations; 8. Why families still matter.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Vern L. Bengtson, Vern L. (University of Southern Californ Bengtson, Vern L. Biblarz Bengtson, Timothy J. Biblarz, Robert E. L. Roberts
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 17.10.2002
• EAN: 9780521009546
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00954-6
• Pages: 240
• Catégorie: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques