Grandparenting Practices Around the World

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4473-4065-2
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

This exciting collection presents an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the unprecedented phenomenon of increasing numbers of grandparents worldwide, co-existing and interacting for longer periods of time with their grandchildren.

The book contains analyses of topics that have so far received relatively little attention, such as transnational grandparenting and gender differences in grandparenting practices. It is the only collection that brings together theory-driven research on grandparenting from a wide variety of cultural and welfare state contexts - including chapters on Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australia - drawing broad lines of debate rather than focusing at a country level.

Building on the success of ‘Contemporary grandparenting’, edited by Virpi Timonen and Sarah Arber, this book further deepens our understanding of how social structures continue to shape grandparenting across a wide range of cultural and economic contexts. The book is essential reading and reference for researchers, students and policy-makers who want to understand the growing influence of grandparents in ageing families and societies across the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Timonen, Virpi

Weitere Mitwirkende

Vidovicová, Lucie

Galcanova, Lucie

Goh, Esther CL

Silverstein, Merril

Bengston, Vern

Few-Demo, April L

Dolbin-MacNab, Megan L

Pietila, Ilkka

Ojala, Hanna

Brown, Judith E

Hamilton, Myra

Craig, Lyn

Vildaite, Dovile

Zhou, Yanqiu Rachel

Hoffman, Jaco

Teerawichitchainan, Bussarawan

Knodel, John

Glaser, Karen

Di Gessa, Giorgio

Ribe, Eloi

Price, Debora

Arpino, Bruno

Margolis, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Widening the lens on grandparenting ~ By Virpi Timonen;

Section 1: The demographic and welfare state contexts of grandparenting;

The demography of grandparenthood in Europe and North America ~ by Rachel Margolis and Bruno Arpino;

Grandparental childcare: A re-conceptualisation of family policy regimes ~ by Debora Price, Eloi Ribe, Giorgio Di Gessa and Karen Glaser;

Section 2: Grandparenting in contexts of economic and societal development;

Grandparenting in developing Southeast Asia: Comparative perspectives from Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam ~ by John Knodel and Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan;

Second parenthood realities, Third Age ideals: (grand)parenthood in the context of poverty and HIV/AIDS ~ by Jaco Hoffman;

Section 3: Transnational grandparenting;

Transnational grandparenting: The intersection of transnationalism and translocality ~ Yanqiu Rachel Zhou;

Transnational grandmother-grandchild relationships in the context of migration from Lithuania to Ireland ~ by Dovile Vildaite;

Section 4: Gender, intersectionalities and grandparenting

The composition of grandparent childcare: Gendered patterns in cross-national perspective ~ by Lyn Craig, Myra Hamilton and Judith E. Brown;

Class-based grandfathering practices in Finland ~ by Hanna Ojala and Ilkka Pietila;

Grandfamilies in the United States: An intersectional analysis by Megan Dolbin-MacNab and April Few Demo;

Section 5: Grandparental roles, agency and influence;

How grandparents influence the religiosity of their grandchildren: a mixed methods study of three-generation families in the United States ~ by Vern Bengtson and Merril Silverstein;

Can Chinese grandparents say no? A comparison of grandmothers in two Asian cities ~ by Esther C. L. Goh and Shengli Wang;

“I am not that type of a grandparent”: (non-) compliance with the grandmother archetype among contemporary Czech grandparents ~ Lucie Galcanová and Lucie Vidovicová;

Conclusions ~ by Virpi Timonen.

Über Autor(innen)

Arpino, Bruno
Assistant Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Few-Demo, April L
Associate Professor, Virginia Tech

Glaser, Karen
Professor of Gerontology, Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, Kings College London

Silverstein, Merril
Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University

Hamilton, Myra
Research Fellow, UNSW Australia

Timonen, Virpi
Virpi Timonen is Professor in Social Policy and Ageing at Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on the sociology of ageing and social policies as they are unfolding in ageing societies. She has an interest in the life course from youth to old age, especially in the context of intergenerational relations within families and societies.

Pietila, Ilkka
Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland

Vildaite, Dovile
Program manager for research activities, School of Social work, Tulance University

Craig, Lyn
Professor of Sociology & Social Policy

Ribe, Eloi
Researcher, University of Edinburgh

Margolis, Rachel
Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario

Brown, Judith E
Research Officer, UNSW Australia

Teerawichitchainan, Bussarawan
Associate Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University

Di Gessa, Giorgio
Lecturer in Global Ageing, Institute of Gerontology, Kings College London

Hoffman, Jaco
Professor/James Martin Senior Research Fellow, North-West University, South Africa/University of Oxford, UK

Galcanova, Lucie
Researcher, Faculty of Social Studies, Masryk University

Dolbin-MacNab, Megan L
Virginia Tech

Zhou, Yanqiu Rachel
Professor, McMaster University

Knodel, John
Research Professor Emeritus, Population Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michaigan, and International Staff, College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Ojala, Hanna
Lecturer, University of Tampere, faculty of social sciences

Goh, Esther CL
Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, National University of Singapore

Vidovicová, Lucie
Lucie Vidovicová is a researcher at the Office for Populational Studies in the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University, and at the Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs.

Virpi Timonen is Professor in Social Policy and Ageing at Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on the sociology of ageing and social policies as they are unfolding in ageing societies. She has an interest in the life course from youth to old age, especially in the context of intergenerational relations within families and societies.