The intergenerational transmission of participation in collective action: The role of conversation and political practices in the family

AbstractTwo studies examined the nature and processes underlying the joint role of interparental aggression and maternal antisocial personality as predictors of children's disruptive behavior problems. Participants for both studies included a high-risk sample of 201 mothers and their 2-year-old children in a longitudinal, multimethod design. Addressing the form of the interplay between interparental aggression and maternal antisocial personality as risk factors for concurrent and prospective levels of child disruptive problems, the Study 1 findings indicated that maternal antisocial personality was a predictor of the initial levels of preschooler's disruptive problems independent of the effects of interparental violence, comorbid forms of maternal psychopathology, and socioeconomic factors. In attesting to the salience of interparental aggression in the lives of young children, latent difference score analyses further revealed that interparental aggression mediated the link between maternal antisocial personality and subsequent changes in child disruptive problems over a 1-year period. To identify the family mechanisms that account for the two forms of intergenerational transmission of disruptive problems identified in Study 1, Study 2 explored the role of children's difficult temperament, emotional reactivity to interparental conflict, adrenocortical reactivity in a challenging parent–child task, and experiences with maternal parenting as mediating processes. Analyses identified child emotional reactivity to conflict and maternal unresponsiveness as mediators in pathways between interparental aggression and preschooler's disruptive problems. The findings further supported the role of blunted adrenocortical reactivity as an allostatic mediator of the associations between parental unresponsiveness and child disruptive problems.

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The Role of Family in the Intergenerational Transmission of Collective Action

Social Psychological and Personality Science ◽

10.1177/1948550620949378 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 194855062094937 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Roberto González ◽

Belén Alvarez ◽

Jorge Manzi ◽

Micaela Varela ◽

Cristián Frigolett ◽

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Keyword(s):

Longitudinal Study ◽

Collective Action ◽

Intergenerational Transmission ◽

Family Environment ◽

Data Sets ◽

Student Activists ◽

Unique Data ◽

Over Time ◽

Family Norms

The present research demonstrates intergenerational influences on collective action participation, whereby parents’ past and current participation in collective action (descriptive family norms) shape their children’s participation in conventional and radical collective action via injunctive family norms (perception that parents value such participation). Two unique data sets were used: dyads of activist parents and their adult children (Study 1, N = 100 dyads) and student activists who participated in a yearlong, three-wave longitudinal study (Study 2, Ns wave 1 = 1,221, Wave 2 = 960, and Wave 3 = 917). Parents’ past and current participation directly and indirectly predicted children’s protest participation in Study 1, while Study 2 showed a similar pattern longitudinally: Perceptions of parents’ participation (descriptive family norm) and approval (injunctive family norm) predicted change in collective action participation over time. Together, results highlight family environment as a critical setting for the intergenerational transmission of protest.

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Civil Society and the Family

10.1332/policypress/9781447355526.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Esther Muddiman ◽

Sally Power ◽

Chris Taylor

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Young People ◽

Survey Data ◽

Intergenerational Transmission ◽

Extended Family ◽

Dinner Table ◽

The Family ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

The relationship between the family and civil society has always been complex, with the family often regarded as separate from, or even oppositional to, civil society. Taking a fresh empirical approach, this book reveals how such separation underestimates the important role the family plays in civil society. Considering the impact of family events, dinner table debates, intergenerational transmission of virtues and the role of the mother, this enlightening book draws on survey data from 1000 young people, a sample of their parents and grandparents, and extended family interviews, to uncover how civil engagement, activism and political participation are inherited and fostered within the home.

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Guerra Civil y la transmisión intergeneracional de la identidad política a través de la familia / The Spanish Civil War and the Intergenerational Transmission of Political Identity through the Family

Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas ◽

10.5477/cis/reis.176.21 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

David Castilla-Estévez

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

Intergenerational Transmission ◽

Representative Sample ◽

Spanish Civil War ◽

Political Socialization ◽

Political Identity ◽

The Political ◽

The Family ◽

The Individual

This article studies the transmission of political identity in the family from the Spanish Civil War until today. Concretely, it attempts to identify the most important factors in the political socialization of the individual, the factors that specifically play an important role in the formation of extremist political identities and the importance the Spanish Civil War has had in these processes. To do this, we have analysed data from a survey based on a representative sample of the Spanish population. The results show that the role of the mother is key in the formation of individual political identity, and that there has been an increase in the number of agents playing a role in political socialization with the passage of generations, although the mother and religion continue to be the most important factors.

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The Curious Circumstances of Flora Tristan’s Death

In the Footsteps of Flora Tristan ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781789622454.003.0005 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 117-154

Author(s):

Máire Fedelma Cross

Keyword(s):

Intergenerational Transmission ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Transmission Of Knowledge ◽

Journal Editors ◽

Flora Tristan ◽

The Family ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Family Home ◽

Busy Schedule

How Jules Puech obtained the papers of Flora Tristan that were on her person when she died in November 1844 in Bordeaux is vital to show the intergenerational transmission of knowledge of ideas and papers among activists that has shaped the construction of this double biography. Until the 1980s, Puech’s papers were kept by his descendants in the family home in Borieblanque, unlike those of Flora Tristan which were removed immediately after her death to Lyon and beyond. Borieblanque held vital clues about the custodial role of Eleonore Blanc, the spiritual daughter who inherited Flora Tristan’s papers. Puech’s account to his family of where Flora Tristan fitted into his busy schedule is invaluable as we read of his response to the opening opportunities from journal editors asking for further publications on Flora Tristan and of the complex network of his acquaintances in activist and university circles that led him to find the Blanc family and their activist connections in the republican and socialist circles of the late nineteenth century.

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