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The purchase of intimacy : Chinese urban one-child families in housing consumptionZhong, Xiaohui, 钟晓慧 January 2014 (has links)
This study examines the changes of family life and relationships in urban China with reference to the filial piety and intimacy theories as well as the individualization thesis. It takes housing consumption as an entry point and focuses on the intergenerational relations in one-child families.
It adopts qualitative research methods to explore consumption practices and the meanings attached to these actions and events for these families. I conducted in-depth interviews with 22 families (middle-aged parents and/or adult children) and ethnographic observation in Guangzhou during the period of 2010 and 2011.
This study examines the meanings attached to housing consumption from the perspective of these urban families. It shows how parents use money to express their love/care and to define their children’s filial obligations. It also demonstrates how parents use their grey money to secure a better future for both generations. It also illustrates the process of consumption to show differentiated family strategies for achieving collective well-being. It also presents their power dynamics and varied ways that parents and children negotiate and handle conflicts for individual goals. It examines the specific socioeconomic context regarding numerous risks and abundant opportunities that are faced by these families. This study thereby enables us to see more clearly the interactions between the state, the market and family dynamics in modern China.
It is argued that urban Chinese parents who play an active and leading role in housing consumption use their money to purchase intimacy with only children. Their desires are socially constructed by their life experiences since the Mao era and by their children’s struggles in a marketized economy. Thus this study challenges the victimized image of Chinese parents and refines the over-simplified exchange logic of parental investment in the market economy. Their desires and agency as middle-aged people with only children in a rapid socioeconomic transformation have to be addressed.
It notes the rise of new filial individuals among only children in the individualization of Chinese society. They are not the uncivil individuals as portrayed by scholars and the media, but rather the dutiful ones who have a heightened filial sense and also engage in new filial practices. Their ideas of filial piety are less about life-debt (due to parents’ giving them life and raising them up), obedience (to parents) and moral obligations. It is more about money-debt (due to parental investment in housing and other financing projects), exchange of material assistance and emotional bonds. This study thus helps develop a new way of understanding filial piety among young Chinese and reconsider the impacts of individualization on family relations and on the younger generation.
The study shows a visible trend of refamiliation with cooperation, conflicts and negotiations involved. By stressing the necessity of collective decision-making between this two-generation collective in housing consumption, these parents and children are building up a negotiable intimacy that reconfirms the vital importance of family intimacy over conjugal intimacy. It thus develops a new model of exploring housing consumption in urban China and helps redefine the Western concept of intimacy. / published_or_final_version / Social Work and Social Administration / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy
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Increasing appreciation for multigenerational communion in a suburban congregation /Davis, Gregory L., January 2006 (has links)
Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2006. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 238-245).
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Young adults' relationships with grandparents parents' intergenerational ties and grandchildren's adult roles /Monserud, Maria Aleksandrovna . January 2008 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, May 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.
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Intergenerational tension in the workplace : a multi-disciplinary and factor analytic approach to the development of an instrument to measure generational differences in organisations /Teh, Eng Choo Elaine. January 2002 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Murdoch University, 2002. / Thesis submitted to the Division of Business, Information Technology and Law. Bibliography: leaves 305-320.
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Aging in Japan importance of social integration /Tanaka, Kimiko. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Sociology, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Mar. 27, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p.166-173). Also issued in print.
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Kinship Status and Life Course Transitions as Determinants of Financial Assistance to Adult ChildrenRemle, R. Corey January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Duke University, 2008.
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Grand/young friends mentoring within covenant at First Presbyterian Church, Newport, Oregon /Roller, Patricia Kay. January 1996 (has links)
Thesis (D. Min.)--Erskine Theological Seminary, 1996. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 182-187).
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Attitudes about intergenerational family obligations related to providing inheritance /Weymuth, Annelle Zerbe, January 1997 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.
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A strategy for preaching to a multi-generational congregation an empirical study /Cadwell, Terry W. January 2000 (has links)
Thesis (D. Min.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2000. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 235-236).
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Effects of intergenerational training on student and parent attitudes toward using the InternetCaskey, Micki M. January 1997 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of South Florida, 1997. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.
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