Intergenerational relations: a South African research agenda
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https://doi.org/10.21504/sajg.v3i2.41Abstract
Intergenerational relations is not a new focus area of study in Southern Africa. Trends in changing relationships between age cohorts have been traced in family, migration and urbanization studies. This special issue of the Southern African Journal of Gerontology presents a case for studying intergenerational relations from a gerontological perspective. The issue includes work from leading international gerontologists and experts in the field of intergenerational relations writing on the United States. Two further contributions come from other parts of Africa - Ghana and Kenya. The articles on intergenerational relations in South Africa, tellingly, come from outside the field of gerontology, a point to be picked up below.References
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Roberts. R.E.L.. Richards, L.N. & Bengtson, Y.L. 1991. Intergenerational solidarity in families: untangling the ties that bind. Marriage and Family Review, 16(1/2): 11-46.
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Taylor. R.J, Chatters, L.M. & Jackson, J.S. 1993. A profile of familial relations among three-generation black families. Family Relations. 42: 332-41.
Tout, K. 1994. Grandparents as parents in developing countries. Ageing International, (March): 19-23.
Walls, C.T. & Zarit, S.H. 1991. Informal support from black churches and the well-being of elderly blacks. The Gerontologist, 31 (4): 490-95.
Angelis, J. 1992. The genesis of an intergenerational program. Educational Gerontology. 18(4): 317-27.
Ardington, E. & Lund, F. 1994. Pensions and development: the social security system as a complementary track to programmes of reconstruction and development. Durban: University of Natal, Centre for Social and Development Studies.
Bengtson, Y.L., Burton, L. & Mangen, D.J. 1985. Generations, cohorts and relations between age groups. In: Binstock, R.H. & Shanas, E. (Eds) Handbook of aging and the social sciences. Second edition. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, pp. 304-38.
Bester, C.W. 1994. The consequences of urbanization and westernization on black family life in South Africa. Social Work, 30(2): 101-106.
Budlender, D. 1994. Youth employment schemes: reviewing international experience. In: Everatt. D. (Ed.) Creating a future: youth policy for South Africa. Randburg: Ravan Press, pp. 97-132.
Burman. S. 1994. The consequences for the elderly of their provision of childcare. Unpublished. Cape Town: HSRC/UCT Centre for Gerontology, Co-operative Research Programme on Ageing.
Caldwell, J.C. 1982. Theory of fertility decline. London: Academic Press.
Cattell, M.G. I992. Praise the Lord and say no to men: older women empowering themselves in Samia, Kenya. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 7(4): 307-30.
Ferreira, M., Møller, Y., Prinsloo, F.R. & Gillis, L.S. 1992. Multidimensional survey of elderly South Africans, 1990-91: key findings. Cape Town: HSRC/UCT Centre for Gerontology.
Gallin, R.S. 1986. Mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law: intergenerational relations with in the Chinese family in Taiwan. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. 1 (1): 31-49.
HSRC (Human Sciences Research Council). 1994. Contributing to the RDP. Pretoria.
Kane-Berman, J. 1993. Political violence in South Africa. Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations.
Lawton, M.P. 1992. Generational interdependence: living arrangements and housing programmes. Southern African Journal of Gerontology, 1 (1): 1-4.
Le Roux, P. 1994. Personal communication. Durban, 12 October.
Mangen, D.J., Bengtson, Y.L. & Landry Jr., P.H. (Eds) 1988. Measurement of intergenerational relations. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Mantzaris. E. 1994. lntergenerational relations in the Durban Indian community: an empirical study. Unpublished. Cape Town: HSRC/UCT Centre for Gerontology, Co-operative Research Programme on Ageing.
Møller, Y. 1993. Living with adult children: a benefit assessment of co-resident living arrangements among black and white older South Africans. Southern African Journal of Gerontology, 2( 1): I 0-16.
Møller, Y. 1994a. lntergenerational relations in a society in transition: a South African case study. Ageing and Society, 14: 155-89.
Møller, Y. 1994b. Township youth and their homework. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council Publisher. (In press)
Ramphele, M. 1992. Social disintegration in the black community: implications for transformation. ln: Everatt, D. & Sisulu, E. (Eds) Black youth in crisis: facing the future. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. pp. 10-29.
Roberts. R.E.L.. Richards, L.N. & Bengtson, Y.L. 1991. Intergenerational solidarity in families: untangling the ties that bind. Marriage and Family Review, 16(1/2): 11-46.
Rossi, A.S. & Rossi, P.H. 1990. Of human bonding: parent-child relations across the life course. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
Taylor. R.J, Chatters, L.M. & Jackson, J.S. 1993. A profile of familial relations among three-generation black families. Family Relations. 42: 332-41.
Tout, K. 1994. Grandparents as parents in developing countries. Ageing International, (March): 19-23.
Walls, C.T. & Zarit, S.H. 1991. Informal support from black churches and the well-being of elderly blacks. The Gerontologist, 31 (4): 490-95.
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