The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging
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The Gift of Generations is a comparative study of aging and the social contract in Japan and the United States. By using original, systematically comparable data collected in these countries, the book explores the different cultural definitions of vulnerability and giving, and the ways they shape and constrain the social strategies of routinizing helping arrangements. The book succeeds in interweaving the theory and practice of the social contract by developing the concept of symbolic equity.
Author: Akiko Hashimoto (University of Pittsburgh)
Format: Paperback, 248 pages, 152mm x 229mm, 520 g
Published: 1996, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom
Genre: Sociology & Anthropology: Professional
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The Gift of Generations is a comparative study of aging and the social contract in Japan and the United States. By using original, systematically comparable data collected in these countries, the book explores the different cultural definitions of vulnerability and giving, and the ways they shape and constrain the social strategies of routinizing helping arrangements. The book succeeds in interweaving the theory and practice of the social contract by developing the concept of symbolic equity.
The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging