Ramos, Anne Carolina: My grandparents and I : intergenerational relations between grandparents and grandchildren from the point of view of the children. 2011
Inhalt
- Acknowledgements
- List of Symbols
- Abstract
- Zusammenfassung
- Resumo
- Résumé
- Index
- Introduction
- 1 Listening to Children as an Investigative Principle
- 1.1 Pre-sociological Views of Childhood
- 1.2 From pre-sociological to sociological childhood
- 1.3 Towards a Sociology of Childhood
- 1.4 Research with Children: building a methodology appropriate to the objectof study
- 2 The birth of a grandchild, the birth of a grandparent
- 2.1 The Announcement
- 2.2 A “good age” to be a grandparent?
- 2.3 Ages and Styles
- 2.4 Gender and Style
- 2.5 Names and Styles
- 3 Families, Children and Grandparents
- 3.1 Living with mummy and daddy: nuclear families and grandparents
- 3.2 Grandparents and Divorce
- 3.3 When grandparents divorce
- 3.4 Indirect grandparents, borrowed grandparents, and grandparents of theheart: the grandparents by marriage
- 3.5 Sharing the same house: living with grandparents
- 3.6 Between caring and raising: the importance of grandparents’ support
- 4 The Grandparents’ House
- 4.1 On the route: from the grandchildren’s house to the grandparent’s house
- 4.2 The arrival: the experience of the house
- 5 Relationships. Learning, Sharing, Teaching
- 5.1 Learning and Teaching
- 5.2 Grandparents and Grandchildren Going Out Together, companions onjourneys short or long
- 5.3 Different Generations Helping and Caring for Each Other
- 5.4 On Finitude
- Final Considerations
- References
- Appendices