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This article discusses the influence of culture on human emotions and behavior and its significance in understanding the nuances of distress in intergenerational conflicts among Chinese immigrant parents and their children. In examining the differences in values and norms between the two generations, and the inherent conflicts associated with acculturation in immigrant families, this article focuses on the culturally specific experience and expression of emotions underlying these issues. Case vignettes illustrate how cultural meanings often accentuate the interpretation of antagonistic and rejecting behavior as well as how they camouflage the need for validation between parents and children. Intervention approaches that aim to resolve the emotional impasse within the families are illustrated and discussed.

The birth of a social policy. pensions in France (1900-1914)
The construction of a national pensions policy in France was the outcome of a long historical process in which the law of 5 April 1910 represented a decisive step. Among several highly antagonistic conceptions of society, a relative consensus finally emerged on the necessary intervention of the state in the social field. The fundamental role played by the social reformers and an " interventionist international ", as well as the French political-administrative apparatus, both the cornerstone and the Achilles' heel of the System, must be emphasized. As of the Belle Epoque, and beyond the many difficulties of implementation, the law, whose failure can be explained, marked the victory of a specific model of old-age management and seemed to lend credence to the thesis of the French people's deep social acculturation to the modern notion of pensions.

"Uncommon Dominion tells the story of Venetian Crete, the home of two recognizably distinct ethnic communities, the Latins and the Greeks. The Greeks were subordinate to the Latins economically, politically, and juridically, yet within a century of Venetian colonization, the ethnic differences between Latin and Greek creations in daily material life were significantly blurred." "Members of the groups intermarried, many of them learned each other's language, and some even chose to worship by the rites of the other's church. Holding up ample evidence of acculturation and miscegenation by the colony's inhabitants, McKee uncovers the colonial forces that promoted the persistence of ethnic labeling despite the lack of any clear demarcation between the two predominant communities. As McKee argues, the concept of ethnic identity was largely determined by gender, religion, and social status, especially by the Latin and Greek elite in their complex and frequently antagonistic social relationships." "Drawing expertly from notarial and court records, as well as legislative and literary sources, Uncommon Dominion offers a unique study of ethnicity in the medieval and early modern periods. Students and scholars in medieval, colonial, and postcolonial studies will find much of use in studying this remarkable colonial experiment."--BOOK JACKET