Generations and Families: Polysemy, historical changes and mobility

A selected review of national and international literature about family and generations shows how changes in power relations among nations favor different historical emphases on hierachy, solidarity, inequality and rights. When family is referred to as a basis for national or group identities, it do...

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Published in:Sociedade e estado 2010-05, Vol.25 (2), p.251-284
Main Author: Scott, Parry
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Subjects:
Ambiguity
Antipoverty Programs
Family
Family Relations
Group Identity
Inequality
Migration
Mobility
Modernization
Planning
Rights
Stability
Urbanization
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Summary:A selected review of national and international literature about family and generations shows how changes in power relations among nations favor different historical emphases on hierachy, solidarity, inequality and rights. When family is referred to as a basis for national or group identities, it does so from the perspective of 'hierarchical inclusion' and of 'integration, patterning and incorporation'. Evolutionism, personality and culture, structural-functionalism, urbanization and modernization, emphasize hierarchies, unity and stability, restricting generations to a similar agenda. When family is referred to as a means of resistence against inequality, it does so in reference to 'modes of production, reduction of poverty and reproductive planning' and leaves more space to discuss generations as unequal an separate age groups with their own interests. This approach intensifies with the emphasis on plurality and fragmentation of families in a global world, permitting the treatment of generations as groups with equal permitindo que geracoes recebam tratamento como grupos com igual rights to diversity with their own cultures, partially dissociated from families. How migration and mobility are related to the ambiguities and polissemy of inter-generational relations and family. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0102-6992
DOI:10.1590/S0102-69922010000200006