Parent-Child Value Similarity: The Role of Zeitgeist

Autor/inn/en	Boehnke, Klaus; Hadjar, Andreas; Baier, Dirk
Titel	Parent-Child Value Similarity: The Role of Zeitgeist
Quelle	In: Journal of Marriage and Family, 69 (2007) 3, S.778-792 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2445
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-3737.2007.00405.x
Schlagwörter	Social Values; Social Environment; Family Relationship; Foreign Countries; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialer Wert; Soziales Umfeld; Ausland; Deutschland
Abstract	Reporting a study of German 2-child families, the article focuses on a neglected issue in value transmission studies: contemporaneous societal context. Parent-child value similarity depends not only on family characteristics but also on zeitgeist, the modal value climate of a society. To evaluate the role of zeitgeist in value transmission, differences in parent-child value similarity between families agreeing and disagreeing with the zeitgeist are studied, focusing on a core value of modern societies: hierarchic self-interest. Results show a weak general zeitgeist effect. A family's relative position vis-a-vis the societal value climate, however, is shown to strongly influence intergenerational similarity in hierarchic self-interest, families distant from the zeitgeist showing a much higher intergenerational value similarity than families close to the zeitgeist. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10