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Should we be concerned about age segregation?
— some theoretical and empirical explorations | | Author(s) | Gunhild O Hagestad, Peter Uhlenberg |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 28, no 6, November 2006 |
| Pages | pp 638-653 |
| Keywords | Age groups [elderly] ; Isolation ; Social contacts ; Social interaction ; Theory. |
| Annotation | With its complex links to the division of labour and culture, age is also related to social integration. It can form a basis for social integration and form contrasts, chasms and conflicts in society. After providing a brief history of how social scientists have viewed age as an integrative and segregative force in society, the authors consider dimensions of age segregation in contemporary Western societies, which are marked by widespread institutional, spatial and cultural age segregation, with only the family surviving as an age-integrated institution. For older people, ties to children and grandchildren represent possibilities for learning and the development of generativity: investment in the live of others and in the future of human communities. The link between cross-generational ties and generativity appears to be particularly clear for men. Can we rely on families to consider the potentially negative consequences of societal age segregation, or should we be concerned about family change, such as rising rates of childlessness? (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070115212 A |
| Classmark | BB: TP: TOA: TMA: 4D |
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