The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521555203)

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.

Author: Akiko Hashimoto
ISBN-10: 0521555205
ISBN-13: 9780521555203
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/13/1996
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.37h x 5.47w x 0.67d