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George W. Leeson, Marta Ortega Gaspar, Alejandro Klein
El presente trabajo trata de ahondar en el conocimiento de la dinámica de los abuelos en dos contextos sociales que comparten una raíz cultural (España y México). Los cambios demográficos y sociales han contribuido a un aumento del papel de los abuelos en la vida de sus nietos, pero poca atención se ha prestado hasta la fecha a esta área de investigación. Es importante subrayar la originalidad de este trabajo ya que hasta la fecha se ha prestado escasa atención a su estudio. El análisis de datos primarios desarrollado, basado en la recolección de datos a través de 170 entrevistas en profundidad, revelan la idiosincracia de características generacionales entre los abuelos estudiados aquí y sus propios abuelos, en México y en España, al mismo tiempo permite observar un cambio en los roles tradicionales de género, con ciertos matices específicos de cada país. Los resultados sugieren la presencia de distintos modelos de abuelo que parecen sugerir que el modelo del abuelo ‘patriarcal’ está obsoleto
In analysing the importance of the current roles of grandfathers in the family in Spain and Mexico, this study attempts to deepen knowledge of these roles in two different social contexts which share similar cultural roots. In respect of gender and from a cultural and generational perspective, the research aims to shed light on the figure and role of grandfathers, who have long been overshadowed by their spouses – the grandmothers. As author (2010) and Mann et al. (2013) highlight, changes at both the demographic and social level have contributed to grandfathers playing an increasingly important role in the lives of their grandchildren.It is important to underscore the originality of this research, since little attention has been paid to date to this area of research; indeed, the invisibility of the grandfather’s role almost underpins a false belief in its non-existence. It must also be stressed that this is the first comparative, transnational analysis of this type.The qualitative analysis reveals generational idiosyncratic characteristics among the grandfathers studied here and their own grandfathers, in Mexico and Spain, as well as a change in traditional gender roles, with certain country-specific nuances. In all the cases studied grandfathers interviewed express feeling a state of happiness. In addition, it can be appreciated a perception of a break with the role’s characteristic of the own grandparents.
