The Changing contract across generations / [electronic resource]
Vern L. Bengtson and W. Andrew Achenbaum, editors.
- New York : A. de Gruyter, c1993.
- xviii, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Social institutions and social change .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-297) and index.
Is the "contract across generations" changing? Effects of population aging on obligations and expectations across age groups / Vern L. Bengtson -- Generational relations in historical context / W. Andrew Achenbaum -- An historical perspective on support for schooling by different age cohorts / Maris A. Vinovskis -- Economic status of the young and old in the working-age population, 1964-1987 / Richard A. Easterlin, Diane J. Macunovich, and Eileen M. Crimmins -- Of deeds and contracts : filial piety perceived in contemporary Shanghai / Judith Treas and Wei Wang -- When the contract fails : care for the elderly in noindustrial cultures / Nancy Foner -- Conflict over intergenerational equity : rhetoric and reality in a comparative context / Victor W. Marshall, Fay Lomax Cook, and Joanne Gard Marshall -- Intergenerational relations and welfare restructuring : the social construction of an intergenerational problem / Alan Walker -- Connections : kin and cohort / Matilda White Riley and John W. Riley, Jr. -- Intergenerational relations : gender, norms, and behavior / Alice S. Rossi -- A lifetime of privilege? Aging and generations at century's end / David W. Thomson -- Interest group politics : generational changes in the politics of aging / Fernando M. Torres-Gil -- Setting the agenda for research on cohorts and generations : theoretical, political, and policy implications / Jill Quadagno, W. Andrew Achenbaum, and Vern L. Bengtson.