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| Social mobility, geographical proximity and intergenerational family contact in Sweden | | Author(s) | Stefan Fors, Carin Lennartsson |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 28, part 2, February 2008 |
| Pages | pp 253-270 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/ASO |
| Keywords | Social mobility ; Geographical distance ; Social contacts ; Family relationships ; Economic status [elderly] ; Social class ; Social surveys ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | Intergenerational family contact was examined by considering three questions. First, is there a relationship between parent's class and family contact? Second, can class-related differences in family contact be explained by differences in geographical distance between parent and child? Third, is intergenerational family contact affected by children's social mobility? The questions were explored using data from the 2002 Swedish Longitudinal Study of Living Conditions of the Oldest Old (SWOLD), a nationally representative level of living survey for people aged 75+. The results from logistic regressions showed that parents' class as well as child's class were associated with intergenerational geographical distance and family contact more often than once a week. Those in or retired from non-manual occupations were less likely than manual workers to live close and to have family contact more than once a week. No evidence was found that a change in class position, upward or downward, had any effect on family contacts. Rather, class-stable non-manual families socialise less frequently than other families, even when they live relatively close. The results therefore suggest that familial class cohesiveness is a stronger determinant of intergenerational family contacts than social mobility. Future research should consider the complex connection between social mobility and other forms of relations and transfers between generations. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080204006 A |
| Classmark | TMM: RJ: TOA: DS:SJ: F:W: T: 3F: 76P |
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