sandwich generation

(noun)

The generation of persons who are the children of baby boomers, whose lifestyle is governed by the fact that they must simultaneously care for the needs of their children and their own elderly parents.

Related Terms

Examples of sandwich generation in the following topics:

  • The "Sandwich Generation" and Elder Care

    • For example, many countries in Asia use government-established elderly care quite infrequently, preferring the traditional methods of being cared for by younger generations of family members.
    • The Sandwich generation is a generation of people who care for their aging parents while supporting their own children.

  • Intergenerational Conflict

    • Intergenerational conflict refers to the conflict between older and younger generations as they compete for jobs and resources.
    • The conflict perspective of aging thus emphasizes competition between generations.
    • According to the conflict perspective of aging, generations are competing over jobs.
    • As jobs became increasingly scarce, younger and older generations both felt pressure to compete over available resources, enabling competition between the generational divide.
    • Members of the powerful generation act as gatekeepers and orchestrate the distribution of resources and powers to be in line with their own interests, often at the exclusion of the needs of other individuals and generations.

  • Emerging Values

    • Often, such value change can be observed in generational differences.
    • They are sometimes referred to as Generation Y or Milliennials.
    • Milliennials tend to have different values than the previous generation.
    • The values we see emerging today may depend on material conditions nearly a generation ago.
    • This generation was born in the 1980s and 1990s, a time of major technological advancement.

  • School

    • Education is the process by which society transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, customs and values from one generation to another.
    • Education is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people is transmitted from one generation to the next.
    • Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts.
    • In its narrow, technical sense, education is the formal process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, customs and values from one generation to another.
    • Socialization is the process by which the new generation learns the knowledge, attitudes and values that they will need as productive citizens.

  • Primary and Secondary Groups

    • Rather than having as the goal the maintenance and development of the relationships themselves, these groups generally come together to accomplish a specific purpose.
    • Secondary groups generally develop later in life and are much less likely to be influential on one's identity.

  • Dividing the lifespan

    • These divisions are somewhat arbitrary, but generally capture periods of life that reflect a certain degree of similarity.

  • What is Politics?

    • The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions.

  • Groups

    • Perceiving society as a composite of groups allows for one to generalize about a particular person.
    • In this way, groups operate as a cognitive heuristic, meaning that people use groups as a shortcut to use generalized information to learn about a particular person.
    • Thus, you use group identity to generalize and make assumptions about a specific individual.
    • Legitimate heuristics tend to just be those that import positive generalizations to a particular person.
    • Stereotyping is when one makes generalizations about a particular person in a negative way based on their perceived group identity.

  • Citizenship Rights

    • A person is generally presumed to be a citizen of a nation if one or both of their parents are also a citizen of said nation; this is often called jus sanguinis (Latin legal term), meaning "right of blood. " A jus sanguinis policy means grants citizenship based on ancestry or ethnicity, and is related to the concept of a nation state common in Europe.
    • In general, basic requirements for nationalization are that the applicant hold a legal status as a full-time resident for a minimum period of time, and that the applicant promises to obey and uphold that country's laws, to which an oath or pledge of allegiance is sometimes added.
    • It generally describes a person with legal rights within a given political order.
    • More generally, citizenship is seen as the relation between an individual and a particular nation.
    • Certain entities, however, cross national boundaries, such as trade organizations, non-governmental organizations, and multi-national corporations, and sometimes the term "citizen of the world" has been applied in to people who have fewer ties to a particular nation and more of a sense of belonging to the world in general.

  • Assimilation

    • The three-generation model of language assimilation states that the first generation makes some progress in language assimilation but retains primary fluency in their native tongue, while the second generation is bilingual and the third generation speaks only English.
    • Intermarriage refers to marriage across racial, ethnic, or, occasionally, generational lines.
    • The theory of segmented assimilation for second generation immigrants is highly researched in the sociological arena.
    • This theory states that there are three main different paths of assimilation for second generation immigrants.
    • A second generation immigrant can also make use of established networks in the coethnic community.