Family and Support Systems Across the Life Span

ISBN-13: 9781489921086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 291 str.

Suzanne K. Steinmetz

Spis treści

1. The Isolated Nuclear Family: Fact or Fiction.- 2. Law and Legal Systems: The Family Connection 1981 Burgess Award Address.- 3. The Art and Science of Family Sociology.- 4. Family as a Many Splendored Concept.- 5. Cross-Cultural Research: A Safari Approach.- 6. Intimate vs Non-Intimate Support Networks.- 7. Head Start’s Influence on Parental and Child Competence.- 8. From Latchkey Stereotypes Toward Self-Care Realities.- 9. Misers and Wastrels: Perceptions of the Depression and YUPPIE Generations.- 10. Tracing the Disadvantages of First-Generation College Students: An Application of Sussman’s Option Sequence Model.- 11. Exchange and Power in Marriage in Cultural Context: Bombay and Minneapolis Comparisons.- 12. Intergenerational Transactions of Values: A Case Study of Career Changes in Midlife.- 13. Parental and Filial Relationships: Obligation, Support, and Abuse.- 14. Mother-Daughter Bonds in the Later Years: Transformation of The ‘Help Pattern’.- 15. Cross-Gender Relationships at Work and at Home Through the Family Life Cycle.- 16. Households of the Elders.- 17. Professional Client Relationships and the Older Patient.- 18. The Walking Patient and the Revolt of the Client: Impetus to Develop New Models of Physician-Patient Roles.- 19. Social Supports and Mortality Rates: A Disease Specific Formulation.- List of Contributors.