Ideology, Institutional Identification, and Campus Activism

Kornberg, Alan; Brehm, Mary L.

doi:10.1093/sf/49.3.445

Social Forces

1971

DOI: 10.1093/sf/49.3.445

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Ideology, Institutional Identification, and Campus Activism

Alan Kornberg

Mary L. Brehm

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“…This approach enabled him to challenge the accepted belief that an upper-middle-class origin is a prerequisite for the type of family structure which produces protest-prone youth. Kornberg and Brehm's (1971) article examined measures of early socialization and current political and institutional identifications of student activists. Although prior socialization was associated with protest behavior, the significance of early socialization diminished substantially when considered in conjunction with presently held ideological and institutional commitments.…”

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Socialization, Alienation, and Student Activism

Geschwender

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George³

1974

Youth & Society

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Studies of student activists, especially those of Flacks (1967) and Keniston (1968), have demonstrated the importance of familial socialization experiences in the biographies of these young persons. Parents of protesters are typically uppermiddle-class professionals of liberal political persuasions, decision-making in the family is democratic, and children are encouraged to develop a sense of responsibility to others as well as a capacity to be self-reliant. Growing up in this milieu is viewed as a natural prelude to campus activism. The idealistic, left-liberal political orientations and nonauthoritarian personality traits of individuals reared in such families clash head on with inaccessible bureaucratic elites as well as with the realities of a society that has failed to realize its democratic and egalitarian ideals. Given the characteristics of activists and the structural properties of societal institutions, protest behavior is understandable, if not inevitable.AUTHORS' NOTE: This paper has been greatly improved as a result o careful readings and incisive comments provided

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Student and non-student protest in Japan and the USSR: Some uniformities

Kowalewski

1982

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Student and non-student protest in both the Soviet Union and Japan is compared through analysis of protest demonstrations. Correlates between student dissent and a number of protest demonstration variables in the two samples are presented. Comparisons between student and non-student dissidence along several contextual, behavioral, and outcome characteristics are found similar in both countries. The uniformity in comparative structure is hypothesized to derive from similar characteristics in the two post-industrial countries. Conclusions for subsequent research and policy implications for the future stability of advanced developed societies are drawn.

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College and noncollege youth politics in 1972: An application of Mannheim's generation unit model

Braungart

1976

J Youth Adolescence

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This article examines youth politics employing Mannheim's theory of generation units. Specifically, a multivariate model was constructed to test and compare sets of social location and consciousness factors explaining political behavior among two random samples of college and noncollege youth. Just prior to the 1972 presidential election, 373 Syracuse University students and 134 local Syracuse residents between the ages of 18 and 25 were surveyed to determine their presidential candidate support and urge to participate in a demonstration. Path analysis was used to examine the direct, indirect, and total effects of the variables in the model. Results indicated that (1) the relationships predicting youth politics differed within and between the two youth groups; (2) 55% of the variance in presidential candidate support and 33% of the variance in urge to demonstrate were explained by the variables in the college student model, and the comparable figures for the noncollege group were 39% and 38%, respectively; (3) family status and personal political attitudes differentiated candidate support and urge to demonstrate among college students, while demographic characteristics, family status, and institutional confidence explained considerable variance in politics among the noncollege youth. The form of Mannheim's generation unit model provided a useful tool for comparing youth groups within the same generation; the contents await replication and verification.

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Ideology, Institutional Identification, and Campus Activism

Cited by 15 publications

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Socialization, Alienation, and Student Activism

Socialization, Alienation, and Student Activism

Student and non-student protest in Japan and the USSR: Some uniformities

College and noncollege youth politics in 1972: An application of Mannheim's generation unit model

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