Abstract
Sociology is obviously concerned about connecting private troubles to public issues, as C. Wright Mills once said. Sociologists are also deeply interested in the relationships between people, and the intimate relationships we have with family members. This week, we have a fantastic guest, Dr. Sarah Patterson, who is helping us make sense of these connections. Sarah will be talking with us about families, family demography, and Intergenerational Solidarity Theory. What makes families work or struggle through their interactions? And do families promote positive social solidarity among all its members? Come join us for the conversation!
Sources
- You find Sarah on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/spattersearch
- And find her research at: http://thespattersearch.com
- Check out the podcast she co-hosts, New Books Network’s Sociology
- And she was on The Annex Sociology Podcast a few times, here are some of the episodes:
- On Gender, Work, and Relationships
- On the Erasure of Elizabeth Warren
- On the Value of Public Scholarship
- http://sociocast.org/podcast/valuing-public-scholarship/
- Check out our intro to Family and Marriage (SOC115) episode here:
- Some articles she mentioned and cited were:
- Silverstein and Bankson (1997) Intergenerational Solidarity and Structure of Adult-Child Parents in American Families
- Intergenerational Solidarity in Aging Families (1991)
- I-Fen Lin and Hsueh-Sheng Wu’s 2017 article on how children tend to overreport the time and money they spend on their parents, “Intergenerational Transfer and Reporting Bias: An Application of the MIMIC Model”
- Valk and Bordone’s 2018 article comparing the cohabitation of migrants vs. local people “Co-residence of adult children with their parents: differences by migration background explored and explained”
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1485207
- Racial and Ethnic Differences in Extended Family, Friendship, Fictive Kin, and Congregational Informal Support Networks (2013)
- Solidarity, Conflict, and Ambivalence: Complementary or Competing Perspectives on Intergenerational Relationships? (2004)
- Book: Measurement of Intergenerational Relations (1988)
- Also, here is a source on family solidarity after a parent has passed (a question Ellen posed mid way through the conversation) that Sarah emailed us after we finished recording, from Matthijs Kalmijn and Thomas Leopold titled, “Changing Sibling Relationships After Parents’ Death: The Role of Solidarity and Kinkeeping”
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jomf.12509