SOCIOL 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Forces, Outsourcing, Artificial Insemination
5 Dec 2017
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What are intergenerational relationships: the relationship dynamics between parents and children or grandparents and grandchildren, key unit of analysis in studies of family ties and aging (suggesting linked lives) Review: components of a sound theoretical framework, continuity and change, multi-level (macro-meso-micro, multi-faceted (life domains, diversity & inequality (intersecting structured social relations) Conflict perspective: emphasis on problems & interpersonal conflict (e. g. , caregiving burden, abuse, neglect of older parents, vantage point usually from the adult child, micro-level not social structural level. Example: doctoral thesis (lin, 2013: case study on the recruitment of foreign migrant domestic care workers in taiwan, macro: family/gender norms (structured social relations) Meso: work-family conflict (social institutions: micro: contradictions (role strain) Outsourcing family elder care through the hiring of a migrant worker" (exercise agency) Intergenerational ties of older gay and lesbian persons: coming out = ambivalent situation for old, younger gay/lesbian couples may use artificial insemination, adoption . to become.
