Political Socialisation: Out of Purgatory?

This paper aims to put contemporary political socialisation research in perspective. It offers a rapid overview of the crisis of the subfield after the 1970s and then shifts attention to post-crisis studies. Beginning with child political socialisation, it raises four issues: the use of theoretical frameworks derived from child psychology; the need to reconnect political socialisation to the sociology of family; the benefits of renewing methods for understanding the world of child politics; and a new account of social inequality in the process of political socialisation. It then explores lifelong political socialisation and how it has developed around four research dynamics: the study of civic and political socialisation of school-age adolescents and young adults; the generational renewal; the socialising effects of political mobilisation; and the processes and agents of the secondary political socialisation of adults. The final section raises the major question of what is political in political socialisation.

In the structure of scientific school of familysm (about the contribution of the Department of Sociology of Family and Demography to the achievements of the Sociological Faculty of Moscow State University)

The article describes the main stages of the Russian school of familyism birth, lists the key achievements of the pro-natalist paradigm representatives and highlights their contribution to the development of research practice in the field of a comprehensive family-child life study.

PERUBAHAN PERANAN WANITA SUNDA: STUDI KASUS DI KOTA BANDUNG

This writing explores the sociology of family, especially related to the roles of women in Sundanese societal family, by taking the case of the City of Bandung. By qualitative and survey approaches, the writer apprehends the matters by tracking to women’s job; the age of marriage and the right to choose the spouse; the view of women towards the roles of wife, husband, mother; and their views on jobs and domestic issues. The writer finds out that Sundanese women have got a new condition, like those of breadwinning roles, etc.

Sociology of Family and Childhood in the Work of James Bossard

This article is a review of the academic works of American sociologist James Bossard. During his life he wrote a vast number of articles and books on family, marriage, childhood and parenting, using a variety of methods for collecting and analyzing information. Despite his active academic and social life, James Bossard is very little known in the Russian-speaking environment. James Bossard creates his own set of approaches towards studying family, which should cover all significant aspects of the latter. Said set is based on approaches that can be divided into three main categories, which will be discussed in the review: family rituals, family heterogeneity and family as a field for change. Meanwhile he also described other issues: happiness and unhappiness in the family, the differences between large and small families, the role of children in the family, rites of passage, the impact of war on families. James Bossard is also worthy of interest as a productive researcher with unconventional approaches to working with material, as well as a peculiar sign of the time. The main goal of the author of this review is to draw attention to this sociologist’s legacy, since many of his works are also relevant in modern Russia.

The German Family Panel (pairfam). Research Potential and First Results of a Multi-Disciplinary Longitudinal Study on Partnership and Family Dynamics in Germany

The German Family Panel pairfam is a multidisciplinary, multi-actor, longitudinal study of partnership and family dynamics in Germany. The present paper illustrates the wide analytical potential inherent, in the annually growing pairfam dataset by summarizing published analyses of pairfam data on the topics of partnership, parenthood, and intergenerational relationships. Since the panel is uniquely rich due to its longitudinal and multi-actor design, this selection of publications also provides a concise review of current developments in the sociology of family and partnership.