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No society can escape population ageing. This demographic phenomenon has profound social consequences on the lifestyles of individuals and societies. In the light of the accelerated ageing of the Mediterranean area, the analyses which inform this work aim to understand how the age-related policies of Nation-States are partly responsible for the behaviours of the generations. They also highlight how the lifestyle changes are the result of trends which are common to these societies. The Mediterranean area constructed here by the researchers offers an in-depth reflection on the national cases presented, in terms of their specificities or societal singularities, as well as of their dynamics of convergence.Drawing on empirical research in sociology, demography, geography and economics, exploiting the most recent data available and setting the present in historical perspective, Ageing, Lifestyles and Economic Crises studies Mediterranean societies in relation to three major challenges which they now confront. These are: population ageing and its implications in terms of intergenerational family support relationships; increasingly insecure adult professional trajectories and their consequences for the evolution of social gender roles, in an economic context commonly referred to as a 'crisis'; and lastly the role of Nation-States' public policies in the social reproduction of these gender inequalities. These three issues are the keystone to understanding the ongoing transformations in the lifestyles and life cycles of Mediterranean societies. This volume marshals a wealth of recent data that will be useful not only to many academics and scientists but also to local and national policy-makers.
Thierry Blöss is a Full Professor at Aix Marseille University and researcher at the Institute of Labour Economics and Industrial Sociology (CNRS). He is also the academic leader of the international programme ANR SODEMOMED, from which this book stems.
Table of contentsList of Tables and FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Mediterranean area: a total social contextThierry BlössPart 1: Mediterranean disparities and convergences: the demographic order in question Introduction: Population ageing: convergences and uncertainties in the MediterraneanIsabelle Blöss-Widmer, Elena Ambrosetti, Sébastien OliveauChapter 1: An overview of demographic ageing in Italy: past, present and expected evolution Giorgia Capacci and Francesca RinesiChapter 2: Demographic transitions, ageing and the ‘great recession’ in Spain Francisco Zamora López, Noelia Camara, Laura Barrios, Alain Parant, Margarita DelgadoChapter 3: From multifaceted transition to rapid ageing: Morocco at the dawn of a new eraMuriel SajouxChapter 4: Half a century of ageing in France: dynamics and specificities of the mediterranean coastlineYoann Doignon, Isabelle Blöss-Widmer, Sébastien OliveauPart II: Contours of familial solidarities and change in multigenerational societies in the MediterraneanIntroduction: 'The problem' of family solidarities in mediterranean societiesThierry Blöss and Michèle PagèsChapter 5: Public policies towards the family in Italy: an analysis of the evolution of the italian welfare state and its impact on gender and generations Elena Ambrosetti and Donatella StrangioChapter 6: Households of the elderly in Spain: between solitude and family solidarities Francisco Zamora López, Laura Barrios, Irene Lebrusan, Alain Parant, Margarita Delgado Chapter 7: Family solidarities and old age in Morocco: new realities, new challenges Muriel Sajoux and Mohammed AmarChapter 8: Family mutual support in multigenerational France. Social classes, generations and gender: memberships in questionThierry Blöss, Isabelle Blöss-Widmer, Michèle PagèsPart III: Uncertainties in gender relations in the Mediterranean: social trajectories and modes of political regulation Introduction: Age, gender and social trajectories: the uneven emancipation of women in mediterranean societiesThierry Blöss and Elena AmbrosettiChapter 9: The gender gap at home and in the labour market: the case of Italy Serena Arima, Pietro Demurtas, Alessandra De Rose, Maria Herica La Valle, Adele Menniti, Maria Rita SebastianiChapter 10: Gender inequalities, paid work and family formation in Spain Marta Domínguez Folgueras, María José González, Irene LapuertaChapter 11: Morocco between women’s emancipation and reproduction of gender inequalities Mohammed Amar and Ilham DkhissiChapter 12: Work-life balance through the lens of the dynamics of individualisation in France Valeria InsarautoIndex
