文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Changing intergenerational contracts: gender, cohorts and elder care in central rural China, 2005-2013

作者：Huang, Yuqin[1]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Sociol, Meilong Rd 130, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China

年份：2018

卷号：14

期号：1

起止页码：5

外文期刊名：ASIAN POPULATION STUDIES

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000428019000002)】；

基金：The writing up of this article was sponsored by East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) Social Science Foster Fund (Grant Number: 222201422024).

语种：英文

外文关键词：Intergenerational contract; ageing; elder care; gender; cohort; rural China

摘要：In the absence of stable pension systems, elder care arrangements in rural China depend on intergenerational contracts. The existing scholarship on elder care in rural China tends to treat the elderly as a homogeneous group and depict them mainly as care recipients'. Based on a diachronic qualitative study in central rural China between 2005 and 2013, this research examines the changing intergenerational contracts between two cohorts of rural elderly and their adult children. These cohorts hold different positions in terms of family structure, number and sex composition of adult children, living arrangement, physical situation, economic standing and appreciation of intergenerational exchange. These differences further produce different social exchange patterns and disparate elder care modalities between genders and cohorts. Drawing upon insights from gender theory on social gerontology, this research identifies the agency' of older rural women and explores ageing issues among older rural men. This study also presents policy implications by identifying the most disadvantaged group in terms of elder care support.