Social stratification and the transmission of values in the family: A cross-national assessment

Kohn, Melvin L.; Slomczynski, Kazimierz M.; Schoenbach, Carrie

doi:10.1007/bf01115074

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“…We can conclude that there is a close relationship and mutual interaction between Vietnamese husband and wife in the family, which not only creates a common value orientation of each couple, but also has a certain influence on their children's general value orientation. The value transmission from parents to children is a concept that has been proved in many studies 288 health psychology report before, and traditionally is considered as a unidirectional influence process (Kuczynski & Hildebrandt, 1997), where the parental influence has been proved to be much clearer and stronger than the children's influence (Kohn, Slomczynski, & Schoenbach, 1986;Vollebergh, Iedema, & Raaijmakers, 2001). Though children may influence their parents as well (Ambert, 1992), there is no evidence of such a process in this study.…”

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confidence: 43%

Similarities and differences in values between Vietnamese parents and adolescents

Luot²,

Różycka-Tran³

2015

Health Psychology Report

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health psychology report · volume 3(4), 5 original article background The purpose of this study was to analyse similarities and differences in the motivational value system of Vietnamese parents and adolescents, in the context of Schwartz's value theory. Also, the transmission of values between two generations was studied.participants and procedure The results show that both parents and their adolescent children highly respect universalism, conformity, and benevolence in contrast to power and stimulation, which is still typical for a collectivistic culture. The differences arise in higher-order values: while parents value conservatism (security, conformity and tradition), their children prefer more openness to change (self-direction and hedonism) values, which is typical for a more individualistic culture. The results also reveal that parents in Vietnam expect and transfer to children some attitudes and features such as studiousness, filial piety and diligence, but not riskiness, desire or humour. Although adolescents are aware of their parents' expectations, they do not fully accept them. conclusionsThe results provide hints for parents to plan their strategy on appropriate education of their children, in the current context of global integration and cultural changes. key wordsSchwartz's basic values; parents and adolescents; Vietnam

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Similarities and differences in values between Vietnamese parents and adolescents

Luot²,

Różycka-Tran³

2015

Health Psychology Report

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“…This is understandable since religious disagreements within pious families are often costly (Boyatzis, Dollahite, & Marks, 2006); a fact which helps to explain why they are relatively rare (Kelley & Graaf, 1997). Because partisan conflict within families is also costly and rare, parallel considerations apply to political identities (Crawford & Pilanski, 2014;Jennings, Stoker, & Bowers, 2009;Kohn, Slomczynski, & Schoenbach, 1986). For example, we learn much more about a Liberal agent's values if we learn she was raised by Conservatives rather than by fellow Liberals.…”

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When do circumstances excuse? Moral prejudices and beliefs about the true self drive preferences for agency-minimizing explanations

Cullen

2018

Cognition

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A B S T R A C TWhen explaining human actions, people usually focus on a small subset of potential causes. What leads us to prefer certain explanations for valenced actions over others? The present studies indicate that our moral attitudes often predict our explanatory preferences far better than our beliefs about how causally sensitive actions are to features of the actor's environment. Study 1 found that high-prejudice participants were much more likely to endorse nonagential explanations of an erotic same-sex encounter, such as that one of the men endured a stressful event earlier that day. Study 2 manipulated participants' beliefs about how the agent's behavior depended on features of his environment, finding that such beliefs played no clear role in modeling participants' explanatory preferences. This result emerged both with low-and high-prejudice, US and Indian participants, suggesting that these findings probably reflect a species-typical feature of human psychology. Study 3 found that moral attitudes also predicted explanations for a woman's decision to abort her pregnancy (3a) and a person's decision to convert to Islam (3b). Study 4 found that luck in an action's etiology tends to undermine perceptions of blame more readily than perceptions of praise. Finally, Study 5 found that when explaining support for a rival ideology, both Liberals and Conservatives downplay agential causes while emphasizing environmental ones. Taken together, these studies indicate that our explanatory preferences often reflect a powerful tendency to represent agents as possessing virtuous true selves. Consequently, situation-focused explanations often appear salient because people resist attributing negatively valenced actions to the true self. There is a person/situation distinction, but it is normative.

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“…On a general level, having successful entrepreneurial parents may facilitate the development of an individual's entrepreneurial mindset through characteristic adaptations due to the interaction with his/her context, such as with entrepreneurial parents (Obschonka and Silbereisen 2012). On a more specific level, the social psychology literature suggests that parents' social position exposes children to experiences and normative expectations that have a lasting impact on children's subsequent career choices (Kohn et al 1986). More explicitly, entrepreneurship researchers claim that Bexposure to and familiarity with self-employment in the family of origin may raise […] the perceived viability of self-employment as a career option^ (Sørensen 2007, p. 85).…”

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Parents’ performance in entrepreneurship as a “double-edged sword” for the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship

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We investigate how perceived parents' performance in entrepreneurship (PPE) affects the entrepreneurial career intentions of offspring. We argue that while perceived PPE enhances offspring's perceived entrepreneurial desirability and feasibility because of exposure mechanisms, it inhibits the translation of both desirability and feasibility perceptions into entrepreneurial career intentions due to upward social comparison mechanisms. Thus, perceived PPE acts as a double-edged sword for the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. Our predictions are tested and confirmed on a sample of 21,895 individuals from 33 countries. This study advances the literature on intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship by providing a foundation for understanding the social psychological conditions necessary for such transmission to occur.

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Social stratification and the transmission of values in the family: A cross-national assessment

Cited by 161 publications

References 27 publications

Similarities and differences in values between Vietnamese parents and adolescents

Similarities and differences in values between Vietnamese parents and adolescents

When do circumstances excuse? Moral prejudices and beliefs about the true self drive preferences for agency-minimizing explanations

Parents’ performance in entrepreneurship as a “double-edged sword” for the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship

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