8:40-9:10    Registration

9:10-9:30    Opening  

          Dr. Yuan-tseh Lee李遠哲 (President, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

          Dr. Ying-hwa Chang章英華 (Director, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

9:30-10:30   Keynote Speech: 

Glen Elder  (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

Generations and the Life Course: Their Interdependence.

10:30-10:50  Tea Break

10:50-12:30  Session 1 / Room A

                                The Intergenerational Relations in Cross-Cultural Comparison

                                Chair: 楊國樞

1 Bernhard Nauck and Jana Sucknow (University of Chemnitz, Germany)

Extramarital social networks and intergenerational relationships in cross-cultural comparison.

2 Ruth Katz and Ariela Lowenstein (University of Haifa, Israel)

Intergenerational relations and quality of life: a comparative analysis.

3.Loren Tepperman (University of Toronto, Canada)

The intergenerational transmission of family gambling cultures.

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:50

Session 2 / Room A--Intergenerational Relations: Adult and Their Parents

Chair: Rudolf Richter

Session 3 / Room B--The Intergenerational Relations in Family Conflict

Chair: 楊文山

1 Gisela Trommsdorff and Beate Schwarz

(Univ. of Konstanz, Germany)

Adult daughters` relationship with their mothers in cross-cultural comparison.

1Barbara H. Settles; Xue-wen Sheng 盛學文

(Univ. of Delaware, U.S.A.)

Families& intergenerational relationships: conflicts Between values & practices in a global society.

2 Hsiang-ming Kung孔祥明

(Shih Hsin Univ., Taiwan)

Like mother like daughter? how mothers’ attitudes affect daughters’ interaction with their mothers-in-law.

2 Shlomo A. Sharlin (Haifa Univ., Israel)

Can conflicts be resolved? The phenomena of scapegoating serving as a mechanism of conflict resolution in intergenerational transition in family and social relations.

3 Ria Smit (South Africa)

Changing intergenerational relations in South Africa: The case of the father-child relationship.

3 Kuang-hui Yeh葉光輝

(Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Parenting style, filial piety, and parent-child conflict.

14:50-15:10 Teak Break

15:10-16:30

Session 4 / Room A--Intergenerational Relations: Young Adult and Parents

Chair: 謝雨生

Session 5 / Room B--Family Structure and its Effect on Family Relations

Chair: Vern Bengtson

1 Rudolf Richter (University of Vienna, Austria)

Intergenerational relations: the ambivalence in the relations between young adults and their parents.

1Wolfgang Lauterbach (Univ. Munster, Germany)

Changes in the intergenerational structure and relations in families across the life course: The case of Germany.

2 Joanne Roberts (Hill Community College, USA) and Rudy Ray Seward(Univ. of North Texas, USA)

The impact of childhood family rituals

upon the behavior of young adults.

2. Ying-hwa Chang, Chin-chun Yi 章英華, 伊慶春 (Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Family property inheritance and allocation: gender and generational comparisons.

3 Chyi-in Wu吳齊殷 (Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Reciprocity in child-parent relations over the adolescence life course.

3. James Chreng-tay Hsueh 薛承泰(Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)

The alternatives of stem family and their economic situations in Taiwan.

9:30-

10:50

Session 6 / Room A--

Family Support in Chinese Societies 1,

Chair: Merril Silverstein

Session 7 / Room B--Conceptual Issues

Chair: Ruth Katz

1 Pau-ching Lu呂寶靜(Natl. ChengChi Univ. Taiwan）

A comparison of sibling helping behavior in old age and adulthood--A case study of Taiwan.

1 Jan Trost  (Uppsala Univ., Sweden)

Similarities and differences between family life cycle and family life course.

2 Hong-kin Kwok and Wing-tak Choy (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)

The caregiving role of the male sandwich generation towards their elderly parents in Hong Kong: intergenerational relations in families and their policy.

2 Ly-yun Chang 張苙雲(institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

What does the family mean to individual’s mental health? An examination of intergenerational difference.

3. Ming-chang Tsai蔡明璋(Natl Taipei Univ. Taiwan)

Kins, friends, and social closeness in Taiwan.

3 Venera Zakirova (Moscow Humanitarian Institute , Russia)

Resolving the social conflict of the system “the family-the state” in Russian society.

10:50-11:10  Tea Break

11:10-12:30

Session 8 / Room A --Family Support in Chinese Societies 2

Chair: Jan Trost

Session 9 / Room B—Demographic Approach to Family Relations

Chair: 陳寬政

1Chao-nan Chen陳肇男 (Institute of Economics,Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Family and her associated support network

1 Fumie Kumagai, (Kyorin Univ. Tokyo, Japan)

Suggestions for intergenerational families for fertility decline and population aging Japanese society: possibilities for applying the COTF System for community transformation.

2. Merril Silverstein (Univ. of Southern California., USA) Shuzhuo Li and Wenjuan Zhang (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ., China)

Consequences of social and family change for the psychological well-being of older parents and grandparents in rural China.

2 Jeroen Smits & Eelke de Jong (Univ. of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

Parent’s investment in children’s education in 12 developing countries: family-level and country-level effects.

12:30-13:30 Lunch

14:00-17:00- Visit to the National Palace Museum

9.30-10.30    Room A    Vern L. Bengtsen  (University of Southern California, USA)                  

                                         Youth in Two Generations: A Life Course Perspective on Age and Aging

10:30-10:50   Tea Break

10:50-12:10

Session 10 / Room A

Intergenerational Relations: Children and Parents

Chair: Bernhard Nauck

Session 11 / Room B

Marriage and Marital Interaction

Chair: Wolfgang Lauterbach

1 En-Ling Pan; Michael P. Farrell, (SUNY, U.S.A.)

Ethnic differences in effects of parent-child relationships and family structure on adolescent distress: comparison of white, black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans.

1 Ruey-ming Tsay蔡瑞明(TungHai Univ., Taiwan)

An analysis of boundary-crossing marriages in Taiwan.

2 Nei-Yuh Huang黃迺毓; Shain-may Tang; Li-tuan Zhou (Natl. Normal Taiwan Univ.)

The attitude of parent-child relations of married couple—a family development perspective.

2 Ray-may Hsung, (Tuon-Hai Univ. Taiwan)Chin-chun Yi, Yang-chih Fu熊瑞梅,伊慶春,傅仰止(Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

The overlap of couples’ social networks: gender role and family finance management.

3 Irene Levin (Oslo Univ., Norway)

Relations between children and non-custodial Parents.

3. Mohammad Taghi Sheykhi (Al-Zahra Univ., Iran)

Late marriage as a source of intergenerational contradiction in Iran -- a sociological appraisal.

12:10-13:30    Lunch

13:30-14:50

Session 12 / Room A--Family Care

Chair: Barbara H. Settles

Session 13 / Room B--Women in the Family

Chair: 譚康榮

1 Esin Kuntay (Mimar Sinan Univ., Turkey)

Elderly in residential care in Istanbul: transition from family support to state support.

1 Chin-fen Chang張晉芬

(Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

The employment instability of married women: motherhood, market power, and patriarchy.

2 John Eriksen (NOVA, Norway)

Intergenerational relations in families with extraordinary care obligations.

2 Ayse Gündüz-Hoşgör & J. Smits (Middle East Technical Univ. Turkey)

Family influence v. s. autonomy of women in Turkey.

3 Reiko YAMATO (Kansai University, Japan)

Changing meanings of “dependence” in old age in postwar Japan: An gendered and culturally comparative perspective.

3 Yu-hsia Lu呂玉瑕 (Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Attitudes toward gender role: changes in Taiwan, 1991-2001.

14:50-15:10    Teak Break

15:10-16:30

Session 14 / Room A --The Intergenerational Relations among Migrating Families Chair: 曾嬿芬

1 Min Zhou周敏(UCLA，U.S.A.)

Negotiating culture and ethnicity:

Intergenerational relations in Chinese immigrant families in the United States.

2 Barbara E. James (Univ. of NC at Chapel Hill, USA)

Doulas--surrogate grandmothers for immigrant Hispanic families in North Carolina.