America's aging [[electronic resource] ] : productive roles in an older society / / Committee on an Aging Society, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456050403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1986
• ISBN: 1-280-22211-5; 9786610222117; 0-309-59558-4; 0-585-15556-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Collana: America's aging
• Disciplina: 305.2/6
• Soggetti: Older people - United States; Voluntarism - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "This report ... presents the papers commissioned for the May 1983 Symposium on Unpaid Productive Roles in an Aging Society"--Pref.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""America's Aging""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""AMERICA'S AGING""; ""Summary""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Definitions of Productivity""; ""Unpaid Productive Roles: Needs and Contributions of Older Persons""; ""The Symposium on Productive Roles""; ""UNPAID PRODUCTIVE ROLES""; ""CHARACTERISTICS OF OLDER AMERICANS""; ""Labor Force Participation and Economic Status""; ""Educational Levels""; ""Household and Family""; ""Health""; ""OLDER AMERICANS AS A SOCIETAL RESOURCE""; ""Incentives and Disincentives""; ""Barriers to Organizational Voluntarism""; ""New Community Settings""; ""CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS""""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""The Economics of Volunteerism: A Review""; ""WORK WITHOUT PAY FOR FORMAL ORGANIZATIONS""; ""Amount of Time""; ""Types of Volunteer Activities""; ""ECONOMIC ANALYSES OF THE REASONS FOR VOLUNTEERING""; ""Volunteering Motivated by Altruism""; ""Experience As Compensation for Volunteering""; ""The Effect of Family Obligations on Volunteering""; ""Policy Implications of the Reasons for ; Volunteering""; ""Lessons From Past Research""; ""WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?""; ""Data on Volunteerism""; ""Motivations to Volunteer""; ""The Role of the Voluntary Sector""""CONCLUSIONS""; ""NOTES""; ""The Older Volunteer Resource""; ""THE NEED AND THE OPPORTUNITY""; ""THE CURRENT AND POTENTIAL OLDER VOLUNTEER POOL""; ""IMPEDIMENTS TO THE OLDER VOLUNTEER""; ""WHAT CAN BE DONE?""; ""Positive Appeal to Older People and Strengthened Recruitment""; ""Improved Recognition and Appreciation""; ""Improved Supervision, Development, and Management""; ""Removal or Reduction of Impediments to Older Volunteers""; ""Legal Restrictions""; ""Expenses""; ""Support and Encouragement""; ""Liability Insurance""; ""Age Bias""; ""NOTES""; ""Unpaid Productive Activity Over the Life Course""""PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES MEASURED AT THE FAMILY LEVEL""; ""Volunteer Time""; ""Emergency Help""; ""Unpaid Productive Work Around the House""; ""PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES MEASURED AT THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL""; ""Housework""; ""Lifetime Patterns of Family Situations for Individuals""; ""Housework""; ""Total Productive Use of Time""; ""Substitutions of Paid and Unpaid Productive Time""; ""Individual Change""; ""Expressed Desires for More or Less Work""; ""Capacity Illness and Disability""; ""Some Traps in Comparing Age Groups""; ""What Affects Older Persons' Productive Activity?""""WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE US?""; ""SUMMARY""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Sociodemographic Aspects of Future Unpaid Productive Roles""; ""PROJECTIONS OF MAJOR POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS""; ""GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION""; ""LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION""; ""EDUCATION""; ""HOUSEHOLDS AND MARITAL STATUS""; ""KINSHIP RELATIONS""; ""HEALTH STATUS""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Index""

Beyond the immigrant enclave : network change and assimilation / / Susan Wierzbicki

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910953485503321
• Autore: Brown Susan K (Sociologist)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2004
• ISBN: 1-280-36141-7; 9786610361410; 1-59332-122-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Collana: The new Americans
• Disciplina: 305.9/06912/0973
• Soggetti: Minorities - United States - Social conditions; Immigrants - United States - Social conditions; Social networks - United States; Acculturation - United States; Assimilation (Sociology); Community life - United States; United States Ethnic relations; United States Social conditions 1980-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-160) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Immigrant networks -- Community as networks and place -- The presence of strong ties -- Kinship ties -- Ties among neighbors -- Similarity of neighborhood ties -- The community typology and immigrants.
• Sommario/riassunto: Immigrant communities even poor ones are often portrayed as solidary and supportive. Wierzbicki examines the presence and homogeneity of ties among the foreign- and native-born of different ethnic groups. She finds that the foreign-born consistently report fewer ties than the native-born, in part because of less education or shorter duration of residence.The foreign-born also have more ethnically homogeneous ties, even when they live outside enclaves and in wealthier areas. This finding has implications for theories of assimilation or incorporation. For lack of network data, previous examination of assimilation has ; often relied on patterns of residential settlement rather than actual social ties. This study indicates that the foreign-born may assimilate spatially but not socially."