scholarly journals INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF VALUES

Author(s):  
Karina Ostapenko

The need in mature, scientifically ground state migration policy is extremely high, and it is becoming more and more pressing with each subsequent year. There is an increasing demand for crosscultural comparisons, as far as yet more ethnic groups are becoming involved into migration processes. The research applied the conceptual approach, covering representatives of three generations of one and the same family. The research has demonstrated that four types of acculturation statements correspond to certain types of behavior in the process of acculturation, types of ethnic and civic identity formation. It has also revealed essential correlations of ethnic identity with acculturation strategies in three generations.

Author(s):  
Perry N. Halkitis

The life experiences and sexual identity development of three generations of gay men, the Stonewall, AIDS, and Queer generations, are explored. While there are generational differences in the lived experiences of young gay men shaped by the sociopolitical contexts of the historical epoch in which they emerged into adulthood, and a crisis that has come to define each generation, there also are consistencies across generations and across time in the psychological process of coming out that defines identity formation of gay men, as these individuals transition from a period of sexual identity awareness to sexual identity integration. The life experiences are also shaped by conceptions of hypermasculinity, racism and discrimination, substance use, and adventurous sexuality. Despite the many challenges that have defined the lives of gay men across time and that are informed by the homophobia of American society, the vast majority of the population also has demonstrated resilience and fortitude in achieving both pride and dignity. These ideas are explored through the life narratives of fifteen diverse gay men, across the three generations.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lina Hedman ◽  
Maarten Van Ham

The literature on intergenerational contextual mobility has shown that neighbourhood status is partly ‘inherited’ from parents by children. Children who spend their childhood in deprived neighbourhoods are more likely to live in such neighbourhoods as adults. It has been suggested that such transmission of neighbourhood status is also relevant from a multiple generation perspective. To our knowledge, however, this has only been confirmed by simulations and not by empirical research. This study uses actual empirical data covering the entire Swedish population over a 25-year period, to investigate intergenerational similarities in neighbourhood status for three generations of Swedish women. The findings suggest that the neighbourhood environments of Swedish women are correlated with the neighbourhood statuses of their mothers and, to some extent, grandmothers. These results are robust over two different analytical strategies—comparing the neighbourhood status of the three generations at roughly similar ages and at the same point in time—and two different spatial scales. We argue that the finding of such effects in (relatively egalitarian) Sweden implies that similar, and possibly stronger, patterns are likely to exist in other countries as well.


Author(s):  
Nele Provoost

This article explores the complex relation between civic identity, individual identificationand citizenship. An in-depth analysis of the life and integration process of three newcomersto the small Brabant town of Lier makes clear how formal statutes and categoriessuch as citizenship might influence the structural integration, but could at the same timebe only loosely connected to informal identifications. Although citizenship was neitherthe proof of nor the condition for an alliance with the town, it nevertheless had a meaning.Establishing temporary trust, it furthered social interaction, which was the breedingground of identity formation. This identity formation was above all a dynamic and neverendingprocess in which time played a crucial but equivocal role.


1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith S. Brook ◽  
Martin Whiteman ◽  
David W. Brook

The present study examined the association between the parent-grandmother relationship, the parenting of toddlers, and toddlers' anger. Parent-grandmother relations were assessed when the parents were adolescents. Parent-toddler relations were examined when the toddlers were two years of age The sample consists of 185 2-yr.-old toddlers, one of the parents of each toddler, and the corresponding grandmother of each toddler. The findings support our hypothesis that there would be an indirect effect of the grandmothers' personalities and child-rearing practices on their grandchildren through the influence of the grandmothers on the parents. The influence of both the grandmothers' and the parents' smoking behaviors on the toddlers' anger was mediated by their child-rearing practices. The significance of the findings from a multigenerational study are discussed with reference to incorporating them into prevention programs. The findings are consistent with the notion of the intergenerational transmission of risk factors—from grandparents to parents to toddlers.


Author(s):  
Brian J. Willoughby ◽  
Spencer L. James

This chapter begins to explore how parents and families influence emerging adults’ beliefs about marriage. Parents are the primary focus. Two key roles parents play in their children’s lives in terms of future behavior and current orientations are socialization and the intergenerational transmission of values. For emerging adults with happily married parents, many of the marital paradoxes appeared to vanish. The authors discuss how having never-married or divorced parents affects marital beliefs. Observing conflict generally appears to diminish many emerging adults’ view of marriage regardless of the current marital status of their parents. The influence of siblings is also explored. Parents and other family influences appear to be one of the key foundations on which emerging adults have built their internal conceptualization of modern marriage.


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