Therefore, the ways in which the rise of transnational intimacies among highly mobile middle-class professionals might be entwined with transformations of intergenerational relationships in Chinese families have remained largely unexplored.
Scholars of Chinese studies began to pay attention to the influence caused by this social transformation on intergenerational family relationships.
The impact of social transformation on family intergenerational relations does not directly change the expectations of the two generations on solidarity, but the complexity of the external environment of the family exacerbates the dilemma of balancing the needs of the two generations.
By providing after-school homework help, basic music lessons, and college prep for teen staff, the hope is that a leadership development program will, in Rubingh's words, accomplish "big, whole-life transformation for at-risk kids," interrupting the intergenerational cycle of poverty.
But over the following decades–and despite all the War on Poverty foolishness that turned so many of its supposed beneficiaries into an intergenerational underclass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, along with a transformation of white attitudes about race, really accomplished the civil rights revolution that the country desired, fully opening American opportunity to African-Americans.
Third, social transformation strengthens the emotional structure of parent-child unity, making intergenerational reciprocity present strong cultural resistance.
This paper demonstrates that the emotions and responsibility based on blood relationships in intergenerational relations are still the basis of family identity in China's current social transformation.
Her M.Phil thesis focused on the intergenerational consequences of aging and late life illness, while her BA thesis focused on the experiences of migration, religious transformation, and identity change among Chinese migrants to the Gulf.
As Ken Dychtwald, founder and CEO of Age-Wave said just yesterday in the context of America's presidential campaign, "This demographic transformation will create new social contribution and marketplace opportunities, as well as potentially devastating medical, fiscal, and intergenerational crises.
