제목

Generations in Aging Societies: Inequalities, Cleavages, Conflicts

저자

Martin Kohli

발행기관

Palgrave Macmillan UK

키워드

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

abstract

Age groups and generations are an important basis of social inequality. This raises two questions that I will discuss in this chapter: first, how age- and generation-based inequalities have developed and are affected by current social change, and second, how these inequalities translate into social cleavages and conflicts. Sustained inequalities may lead to cleavages between distinct population groups. Cleavages create the potential for conflicts. Whether and to what extent these conflicts manifest themselves openly depend on the mobilization of the actors on both sides of the rift. However, there are also links which reach across the cleavages. Aging societies marked by demographic discontinuity depend heavily on these links for maintaining societal integration. The links are created by a range of institutions — above all, political institutions such as parties and unions on the one hand and families on the other. This potential for generational integration is threatened, though, by the current changes in social structure and the welfare state.

주요내용

연령집단과 세대는 사회적 불평등의 중요한 기반임. 두 가지 연구질문을 제시함. 1) 어떻게 세대 불평등이 발전되어왔고 사회변화에 영향을 미쳤는가와 2) 이러한 불평등이 사회적 분열과 갈등으로 전환되었는가에 대한 연구임

ISBN

978-1-349-67080-2, 978-1-137-28317-7

Subject

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Sociology of Work , Medical Sociology, Demography, Aging, Sociology, general

Link

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137283177_14