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Record Nr.

UNINA9910372743003321

Autore

Tanskanen Antti O.

Titolo

Intergenerational family relations : an evolutionary social science approach / / Antti O. Tanskanen and Mirkka Danielsbacka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2018

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

9780367479022

0367479028

9781351608176

1351608177

9781351608169

1351608169

9781315107806

1315107805

Edizione

[1st edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 166 pages)

Collana

Routledge advances in sociology

Classificazione

SOC000000SOC026000

Disciplina

306.85

Soggetti

Intergenerational relations

Families

Conflict of generations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Cooperative breeding species -- 2. Theories on intergenerational relations -- 3. Structure of intergenerational relations -- 4. Factors related to intergenerational relations -- 5. Grandparents and parental childbearing -- 6. Grandparents and child wellbeing -- 7. Grandparent wellbeing -- 8. What about aunts and uncles? -- 9. An evolutionary social science approach -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a synthesis of social science and evolutionary approaches to the study of intergenerational relations, using biological, psychological and sociological factors to develop a single framework for understanding why kin help one another across generations. With



attention to both biological family relations as well as in-law and step-relations, it provides an overview of existing studies centred on intergenerational relations – particularly grandparenting – that incorporate social science and evolutionary family theories. This evolutionary social science approach to intergenerational family relations goes well beyond the traditional nature versus nurture distinction. As such, it will appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines with interests in relations of kinship, the lifecourse and the sociology of the family.