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The Elderly and Intergenerational Relations Insecurity among the Contemporary Families

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Tehran Univrersity

2 university of tehran

3 PHD Studrnt

Abstract

In the past decades, Iranian society has undergone various changes that have affected the changes in family intergenerational relations. The present research aims to analyze the determining factors of family intergenerational relations among the Tehranian families and it has been conducted with qualitative, in-depth and semi-structured interviews with the elderly using a Purposeful and Theoretical sampling method and the data obtained from the interviews have been coded based on the Thematic Analysis method. The results of this study show that the challenge of independent children, children's job insecurity, children's family life instability, the change of intergenerational family relations and finally, exclusion of the elderly from the nuclear family make the elderly family relations problematic. The governance of values and market relations and domination of economic logic in everyday life has also entered family life, making the family insecure and making changes in family intergenerational relations. Such changes proceed to change the intergenerational support norms, one-way intergenerational supportiveness, the commodification of the intergenerational relations and exclusion of the elderly from the nuclear family. Such changes result from intergenerational relations insecurity in the Contemporary families which disable the families against the elderly.

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Cultural Studies & Communication
Volume 16, Issue 59
August 2020
Pages 11-44
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