This book presents various studies that go beyond the mere
opposition between macro and micro determinants of social and
family changes. The cross-cultural, transdisciplinary and
generational perspectives on selection of the partner, marriage,
cohabitation, LAT relationships, divorces, ageing and interchanges,
children, types of households, inheritance and construction of the
domestic space contribute to deepen the analysis of diversity in
families and their multiple interactions with cultural,
demographic, economic, and social processes. The authors reveal the
complex connections between the internal and external spheres of
the family, the historical moments and contexts, the
intergenerational experiences, the macro-structural processes and
the individuals' multiple possibilities of action, between the
everyday decision-making and the changes in the families'
practices. Exceptional situations, such as catastrophes or economic
crises, contribute to the diversification of the family and promote
retrocession in gender equality. Crisis and war intensify female
care and domestic work. Diversification implies that families are
not adscripted to closed systems, determined automatically within
also closed societies that portray family as a miniature reflection
of social structures. Deconstructing this myth, most of the authors
recognize family diversity and its variations in space and time.
The understanding of the economic, social, cultural and demographic
family processes and practices permits to relate population and
society. The duplication of the life expectancy and the reduction
of births by almost one half in entire populations worldwide lie
behind marriage markets, reproductive practices, generational
availability, coexistence probabilities, intergenerational exchange
and new and different familial arrangements. Increases in life
expectancy and changes in the timing and number of children lead
social actors to reconsider gender and generational roles; the
solidarity among generations has another background and acquires
different meanings; although there has been an increase in gender
equality, it has come with an increased social inequality within
the countries and among them. Demographic processes are an inherent
part of social processes, and the age structure of the populations
constitutes the human and biological basis for the analysis of
social behaviors that these populations choose to reproduce, as
well as for the understanding of the differences in the
distribution of resources into and between countries, genders,
generations and social groups.
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