The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Con...
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The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract
Book Details
- Author
- Akiko Hashimoto
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Gerontology
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780521555203
- ISBN-10
- 0521555205
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ISBN: 0521555205
Author: Hashimoto, Akiko
Condition: New
The Gift of Generations is a comparative study of aging and the social contract in Japan and the United States. By using original, systematically comparable data collected in these countries, the book explores the different cultural definitions of vulnerability and giving, and the ways they shape and constrain the social strategies of routinizing helping arrangements. The book succeeds in interweaving the theory and practice of the social contract by developing the concept of symbolic equity.
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