Centre on Aging, University of Victoria, Sedgewick Bldg A123, P.O. Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 2Y2.
Can Rev Sociol. 2010 Feb;47(1):71-92. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-618x.2010.01223.x.
Drawing on accounts from 28 adult children, I explore the interpretive dynamics of filial and social responsibility for elderly people. Participants tended to characterize individualistic, voluntary motivations positively in talk about personal filial responsibility, yet when speaking about other Canadians, criticized individualistic values as promoting irresponsibility. Others were assessed negatively in contrast to an idealized past and non-Western cultures; "Canadian society" was used as a contrast against which to define self as filially responsible. In this process, participants also reproduced conceptual opposition between filial and societal responsibility; rarer was an alternative, "solidarity" paradigm utilized.
我借鉴了 28 位成年子女的描述，探讨了代际和社会责任的解释动态，以照顾老年人。参与者在谈论个人的孝道责任时，往往会积极地描述个人主义、自愿的动机，但在谈到其他加拿大人时，他们会批评个人主义价值观助长不负责任的行为。与理想化的过去和非西方文化相比，其他人则受到了负面评价；“加拿大社会”被用作与自我对比的标准，以定义自己的孝道责任。在这个过程中，参与者也复制了代际责任和社会责任之间的概念对立；相反，“团结”范式很少被使用。
