ABSTRACT
This chapter explores what relationships there might be between negotiation strategies in the family on the one hand–a microprocess, and the notion of global citizenship on the other–a macroprocess. It presents the areas of relationships between the genders and generations, which have changed familial life substantially in all Central and Western European countries–and also outside these regions. The great social changes have altered European families very profoundly, both structurally and emotionally. This process is often referred to as modernization. In social sciences, including women's studies, there is an agreement that the balance of power between men and women and between parents and children in their mutual roles is much more equal than some generations ago. The results could be positioned on a trajectory ofmodernity whose one end represents traditional authority, and whose opposite end represents partnership negotiation.
