The Intergenerational Contract in the Changing Asian Family
The Intergenerational Contract in the Changing Asian Family
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DOI：
10.1080/13600810601045833
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发表时间：
2006-01-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Croll, Elisabeth
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作者：
Croll, Elisabeth
当代亚洲普遍担忧的是，现代化或城市化、移民、人口结构转变、对新生活方式的追求以及西方价值观的传播，都强调了个人而非集体的家庭利益，从而削弱了孝道义务。本文以东亚、东南亚和南亚的人种学研究为基础，表明代际契约非但没有受到侵蚀，反而采取了新的步骤来投资代际契约，两代人都对代际契约进行了重新谈判和重新解释，以支持一个强有力的、互惠的关爱循环。本文的结论是，这是对亚洲国家支持的发展战略和社会政策的务实、必要和有远见的回应。可以说，在亚洲社会中，与个人福祉更相关的是家庭契约和家庭排斥，而不是社会契约和社会排斥，代际资源流动极大地补贴了当代亚洲的发展战略。
A contemporary Asia-wide concern is the common fear that modernization or urbanization, migration, the demographic transition, new lifestyle aspirations and the spread of Western values have emphasized individual rather than collective familial interests and thus eroded filial obligations. This paper, based on ethnographic studies across East, South-East and South Asia, suggests that far from being eroded, the generations have taken new steps to invest in the intergenerational contract, which has been renegotiated and reinterpreted by both generations in support of a robust and reciprocated cycle of care. The paper concludes that this is a pragmatic, necessary and farsighted response to the development strategies and social policies supported by Asian states. It can be argued that, in Asian societies, it is the familial contract and familial exclusion rather than a social contract and social exclusion that are more pertinent to individual well-being, and that intergenerational resource flows significantly subsidize contemporary Asian development strategies.