The Two Faces of Familism: A Cross-Cultural Research in India and Italy

Mucchi‐Faina, Angelica; Pacilli, Maria Giuseppina; Verma, Jyoti

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“…Goldberg and Smith (2009) examined perceived parental skills of U.S. lesbian, gay, and heterosexual couples who were adopting their first child and found that heterosexual and lesbian women initially perceived themselves as more skilled than men. In traditional Italian society, women (mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and daughters) cared for children without any significant support from their husbands or other men in the family (Mucchi-Faina et al 2010). Thus, two women who choose to raise a child together pose a less strange social situation in comparison with two men who raise children by themselves.…”

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System Justification, Right-Wing Conservatism, and Internalized Homophobia: Gay and Lesbian Attitudes toward Same-Sex Parenting in Italy

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Adopting a system justification perspective (Jost and Banaji 1994), we investigated the manner and extent to which gay men and lesbians might internalize a sense of inferiority when it comes to parenthood. In an Italian sample of gay and lesbian individuals, we found that gay men who scored high (versus low) on system justification and right-wing conservatism regarded same sex parents as less competent; these effects were mediated by internalized homophobia. Lesbian women, however, perceived lesbian parents as more competent than opposite sex parents, regardless of ideological orientations. For gay men the internalization of societal discrimination harms perceptions of parental competence, whereas for lesbians gender stereotypes about parenting trump the negative effects of bias related to sexual orientation. These findings suggest that men's and women's perceptions of their own bodies and capacities are strongly affected by sociocultural processes, including ideological processes.

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System Justification, Right-Wing Conservatism, and Internalized Homophobia: Gay and Lesbian Attitudes toward Same-Sex Parenting in Italy

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“…Familism describes a strong individual identification with family (Sabogal, Marín, Otero-Sabogal, VanOss Marín, & Perez-Stable, 1987), an emphasis on ideal family relationships as close, and the prioritization of family over all (e.g., Abdou et al, 2010;Campos et al, 2008;Lugo Steidel & Contreras, 2003). Familism is a highly complex construct that has been defined and interpreted in many different ways, but generally reflects attention to the interests of the family and expectations of family cohesion, respect, and obligations; thus, family goals are more important than those of its individual members (Mucchi-Faina, Pacilli & Verma, 2010;Stein et al, 2014). Donati (1985) distinguished between the traditional familistic culture typical of southern Italy (also, see Banfield, 1967) and more contemporary thoughts about family that characterize areas in the north.…”

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The Good Parent: Southern Italian Mothers’ Conceptualization of Good Parenting and Parent–Child Relationships

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Journal of Family Issues

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Thirty mothers, ranging in age between 30 and 46 years, participated in seven focus groups aimed at analyzing perceptions and ideas of the characteristics of a good parent and parent–child relationship in southern Italy (Sicily). The discussions were transcribed and analyzed using the constant comparative analysis approach. Two major themes, discipline and affection, emerged from the discussions about the idea of a good parent, with seven further subthemes. In defining good parenting beliefs and practices, Sicilian mothers mostly believed that control, discipline, and demandingness were imperative and prioritized over warmth and responsiveness. Despite the importance given to demandingness, a good parent–child relationship was predominantly described as the result of a balance between love and control, mainly based on communication, confidence, and respect. Our findings were interpreted and discussed with consideration to the collectivistic and familistic nature of Sicilian society.

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“…At the same time, there are substantial cultural differences in the degree of (un)conditionality and reciprocity of the loyalty that is expected within certain key groups such as the family (e.g., [ 25 – 27 ]). In some cultures, groups such as the family provide limited care, love and support (for example because care is institutionalized, because love is provided in friendship networks or because support is provided by the welfare state).…”

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Community Collectivism: A social dynamic approach to conceptualizing culture

2017

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Culture shapes individuals, but the measurement of cultural differences has proven a challenge. Traditional measures of cultural values focus on individual perceptions. We suggest that values are established and maintained within social communities of proximate others, such as the family and its social environment. Within such communities, values serve to maintain collective harmony whilst preserving individual agency. From a social-dynamic analysis of communities, we infer that community values of loyalty regulate individual commitment, values of honor regulate norm compliance, and values of group hierarchy maintain a division of labor. In addition, communities may regulate the ways in which individuals have independent agency. A new scale to measure these values was validated in four studies (N = 398, 112, 465 and 111) among Dutch (religious and non-religious), Turkish-Dutch, Surinamese and Turkish groups. Values and practices were measured at the level of the individual (‘What do you value?’) and at the level of the perceived community (‘What does your community value?’). Results show that, unlike individual-level measures of individualism/collectivism, this scale has excellent reliability, differentiates between cultural groups, and has predictive validity for future (voting) behavior. This approach provides a new way of conceptualizing culture, a new measure of collectivism and new insights into the role of proximate others in shaping culture.

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The Two Faces of Familism: A Cross-Cultural Research in India and Italy

Cited by 29 publications

References 35 publications

System Justification, Right-Wing Conservatism, and Internalized Homophobia: Gay and Lesbian Attitudes toward Same-Sex Parenting in Italy

System Justification, Right-Wing Conservatism, and Internalized Homophobia: Gay and Lesbian Attitudes toward Same-Sex Parenting in Italy

The Good Parent: Southern Italian Mothers’ Conceptualization of Good Parenting and Parent–Child Relationships

Community Collectivism: A social dynamic approach to conceptualizing culture

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