Myth of Generational Conflict

Sara Arber is the President of The British Sociological Association, 1999-2001

• 1. Equity and solidarity across the generations Claudine Attias-Donfut and Sara Arber 2. The redistributive effects of generational transfers Claudine Attias-Donfut and Francois-Charles Wolff 3. Complementarity between private and public transfers Claudine Attias-Donfut and Francois-Charles Wolff 4. Wealth distribution between generations: A source of conflict or cohesion? Lars Gulbrandsen and Asmund Langsether 5. Families apart? Intergenerational transfers in East and West Germany Martin Kohli, Harald Kunemund, Andreas Motel and Marc Szydlik 6. Generational relations and the law Marjatta Marin 7. Discontinuous change and generational contracts Henk Becker 8. Gender, the generational contract and pension privatisation Jay Ginn and Sara Arber 9. Trail-blazers and path followers: Social reproduction and geographical mobility in youth Gill Jones 10. The transmission of life stories from ethnic minority fathers to their children: personal resource to promote social integration. Catherine Delcroix 11. Reinventing the generational contract: anticipating caregiving responsibilities of younger Germans and Turkish migrants Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer and Angela Grotheer 12. Continuity and change: The family and community life of older people in the 1990s. Miriam Bernard, Judith Phillips, Chris Phillipson and Jim Ogg