Paradox of opportunity: Education, work, and age integration in the United States and Germany

Gerontologist

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 282-286

  Dannefer, Dale ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; GERMANY; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; LIFE EVENT; REVIEW; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOCIALIZATION; SOCIETY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034121193     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/40.3.282     Document Type: Review

References (40)

1. Antikainen, A., Houtsonen, J., Kauppila, J., & Huotelin, H. (1996). Living in a learning society. Washington, DC: Palmer Press.
2. Antonucci, T. C. (1985). Personal characteristics, social support and social behavior. In R. H. Binstock and E. Shanas (Eds.), Handbook of aging and the social sciences (pp. 94-128). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
3. Beck, U. (1992). The risk society: Towards a new modernity. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
4. Beck, U., Giddens, A., Lash, S. (.1995). Reflexive modernization: Politics, tradition and aesthetics in the modern social order. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford.
5. Bengtson, V. L. (1993). Is the contract across generations changing? Effects of population aging on obligations and expectations across age groups. In V. L. Bengtson & W. A. Achenbaum (Eds.), The changing contract across generations (pp. 3-23). New York: Aldine DeGruyter.
6. Bengtson, V. E., Mangen, D. J., & Landry, P. H. Jr. (1984). The multigeneration family: Concepts and findings. In V. Garms-Homolova., E. M. Hoerning, & C. Shaeffer (Eds.), Intergenerational relationships (pp. 63-79). New York: C. J. Hogrefe.
7. Bernstein, B. (1996). Pedagogy, symbolic control and identity: Theory, research, critique. London: Taylor & Francis.
8. Busskamp, W., & Pankoke, E. (1990). Industrielkultur und Innovationsklima Kulturelle Altlasten und Entwicklungspotentiale im Ruhrgebeit [Inclustrial culture and innovational climate in the conurbation perspectives of developing the Ruhr district]. Sociologia Internationalis, 28, 133-146.
9. Dannefer, D. (1991). The race is to the swift. In C. M. Kenyon, J. E. Birren, & J. J. F. Schroots (Eds.), Metaphors of aging in science and the humanities (pp. 155-172). New York: Springer.
10. Diewald, M. (n.d.). Verwandschaftsbezieghunger vor und nachder Wende in Ostdeutchland [Interactions with relatives before and after the change in East Germany]. Berlin: Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education.
11. Featherston, M. (1991). Consumer culture and postmodernism. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
12. Furlong, A., & Cartmel, F. (1997). Young people and social change. Individualization and risk in late modernity. Philadelphia: Open University Press.
13. Gitter, R. J., & Scheuer, M. (1997). U.S. and German youths: Unemployment and the transition from school to work. Monthly Labor Review, 120(3), 16-27.
14. Gittleman, M., & Joyce, M. (1995). Earnings mobility in the United States, 1967-91. Monthly Labor Review, 118(9), 3-13.
15. Glatzer, W. (1992). Orientations toward the future. In (Eds.), Recent social trends in West Germany, 1960-1990. Montreal, Québec, Canada: McGill-Queens University Press.
16. Greenwald, J. (1993). Bellboys with B.A.s. Time, 142, 36-37.
17. Hamilton, S. F. (1990). Work and maturity: Occupational socialization of non-college youth in the United States and West Germany. Research in the Sociology of Education and Socialization, 7, 283-312.
18. Hastings, E. H., and P. K. Hastings. (1993-94; 1994-95). Index to International Public Opinion. Westport, CT: Greendwood Press.
19. Heclo, H. (1988). Generational politics. In J. C. Palmer, T. Smeecling, and B. B. Torrey (Eds.), The vulnerable (pp. 381-442). Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.
20. Hodson, R., Welsh, S., Rieble, S., Jamison, C. S., & Creighton, S. (1993). Is worker solidarity undermined by autonomy and participation? Patterns from the chronographic literature. American Sociological Review, 58, 398-416.
21. Jerrome, D. (1996). Ties that bind. In A. Walker (Ed.), The new generational contract (pp. 81-99). London: University College of London Press.
22. Kahn, R. (1979). Aging and social support. In M. W. Riley (Ed.), Aging from birth to death. AAAS selected symposium (pp. 77-91). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
23. Lothar, P. (1993). Jeder irgenwis fur sich allein? Probleme und Chancen sozialer Interaktion am Arbeitspatz [Everyone somehow on their own? Problems and opportunities for social interaction in the workplace]. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 22, 416-432.
24. Markovits, A. S., & Silvia, S. J. (1992). Federal Republic of Germany. In J. Campbell (Ed.), European labor unions (pp. 167-183). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
25. Newman, K. S. (1993). Declining fortunes. The withering of the American dream. New York: Basic Books.
26. Niemi, R. G., Mueller, J., & Smith, T. W. (1989). Trends in public opinion: A compendium of survey data. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
27. Oakes, J. (1985). Keeping track: How schools structure inequality. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
28. Reich, R. B. (1991). The work of nations. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
29. Riley, M. VV., Kahn, R. L., & Foner, A. (1994). Age and structural lag: Society's failure to provide meaningful opportunities in work, family, and leisure. New York: Wiley-lnterscience.
30. Riley, M. W., & Riley, J. W. (1994). Age integration and the lives of older people. The Gerontologist, 34, 110-115.
31. Rones, P. L., Ilg, R. E., & Gardner, J. (1997). Trends in hours of work since the mid-1970s. Monthly Labor Review, 120(4), 3-14.
32. Rosenbaum, J. F. (1978). The structure of inequality in school. Social Forces, 57, 236-256.
33. Schor, J. B. (1991). The overworked American: The unexpected decline of leisure. New York: Basic Books.
34. Sleemi, F. (1995). Collective bargaining outlook for 1995. Monthly Labor Review, 118(1), 3-22.
35. Stinson, J. F., Jr. (1990). Multiple jobholding up sharply in the 1980s. Monthly Labor Review, 11(7), 3-10.
36. Stinson, J. F., Jr. (1997). New data on multiple jobholding available from the CPS. Monthly Labor Review, 120(3), 3-8.
37. Swensen, P. (1989). Fair shares: Unions, pay and politics in Sweden and West Germany. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
38. Taylor, P., & Walker, A. (1996). Intergenerational relations in the labor market: The attitudes of employees and older workers. In A. Walker (Ed.), The New Generational Contract (pp. 159-186). London: University College of London Press.
39. Turner, R. (1960). Modes of social ascent through education: Sponsored and contest mobility. American Sociological Review, 25, 855-867.
40. Worndl, B. (1992). Mobilizing institutions: Labor unions. In W. Glatzer, K. O. Hondrich, H. H. Noll, K. Stiehr, & B. Worndl (Eds.), Recent social trends in West Germany 1960-1990 (pp. 282-286). Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.