Women (Re)Negotiating Care across Family Generations

Politics across Generations: Family Transmission Reexamined

We use longitudinal data incorporating three generations of Americans to reevaluate the character and consequences of political socialization within the family. Findings about parental influence based on youth coming of age in the 1990s strongly parallel those based on youth socialized in the 1960s. As expected on the basis of social learning theory, children are more likely to adopt their pare...

Capturing family recipes for digital sharing across the generations

Family recipes are both functional and nostalgic. They evoke important shared memories and transmit time-tested traditional methods of cooking and eating. However, we can lose the essence of Aunt Dottie and the smell of her apron, if we try to fit her favourite recipe into the kind of formal recipe structure used in cookbooks and computerbased recipe software. This paper describes a research pr...

Justice across the Generations

Occupational Choice Across Generations

There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general socio-economic standing. This paper looks at the patterns of employment in Germany, analyzes how individua...

Quantum Entanglement Across Generations

The human body is a constant flux of thousands of chemical/biological interactions and processes connecting molecules, cells, organs, and fluids, throughout the brain, body, and nervous system. Up until recently it was thought that all these interactions operated in a linear sequence, passing on information much like a runner passing the baton to the next runner. However, the latest findings in...