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This quantity analyzes intergenerational unity from diversified interdisciplinary angles in the social sciences. It offers analytical instruments to enhance examine and files how societies are adjusting to significant adjustments that have an effect on the center of the social fabric.
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Oyama This chapter describes some of the sociological parameters of intergenerational solidarity. We argue that there are two levels of analysis, the macroand microsocial; the macrosocial is reflected at the level of society and groups (what we will call “macrogens”) and the microsocial at the level of families and individuals (“microgens”). Similarly, we argue that it is impossible to discuss solidarity without considering its opposite, conflict, and vice versa. Sociologists have generally focused more on conflict than on solidarity, and with the coming age boom marked by the aging of the “baby boomers,” many observers have warned about a “war between generations” as the young begin to protest what they see as an inequitable distribution of public resources favoring the elderly.
On an increasing scale, grandparents provide care for their orphaned grandchildren, and there are many cases in which in orphan families, the eldest child provides support to siblings (see Oduaran, chapter eleven). In other African countries, the establishment of cash crop economies and other economic transformations has led to major social changes that include disintegration of the traditional families, increase in the number of female-headed families, and in the number of divorces. The effect is that the support that the traditional extended family used to provide has declined considerably (Oheneba-Sakyi and Takyi, 2006; and Oduaran, chapter eleven).
Transfers from Migrants to their Children: Evidence that Altruism and Cultural Factors Matter. In Review of Income and Wealth. 4, December, pp. 619–643. Ch a p t e r Two I n t e rg e n e r at iona l S ol i da r i t y a n d Con f l ic t w h at d oe s i t m e a n a n d w h at a r e t h e b ig i s s u e s ? Vern L. Bengtson and Petrice S. Oyama This chapter describes some of the sociological parameters of intergenerational solidarity. We argue that there are two levels of analysis, the macroand microsocial; the macrosocial is reflected at the level of society and groups (what we will call “macrogens”) and the microsocial at the level of families and individuals (“microgens”).