Hoskins, Bryony;
Janmaat, Jan Germen;
(2024)
Intergenerational transmission and the reinforcement of the political engagement gap: Identifying how university-educated parents enable their children to become more politically interested during early adolescence.
British Educational Research Journal
10.1002/berj.4002.
(In press).
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Abstract
Research consistently shows that parents' educational attainment is associated with their children's level of political interest. The life stage when this relationship is established and grows has been identified to be between the ages of 10 and 16. This paper identifies the social class-based practices that drive the influence of parental education on the development of political interest among early adolescents and explains why the social gap grows at this point. The paper draws on two panel surveys, the Citizenship Education Longitudinal Study and the Understanding Society Youth Survey, and applies latent growth curve modelling and path analysis. The findings show that university-educated parents influence the change in political interest of their children in early adolescence by raising their educational aspirations, enabling their access to political activities in school, choosing the school for their children, taking their children to museums and art galleries and influencing their children's friendship groups.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Intergenerational transmission and the reinforcement of the political engagement gap: Identifying how university-educated parents enable their children to become more politically interested during early adolescence |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/berj.4002 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/berj.4002 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Authors. British Educational Research Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Educational Research Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Education & Educational Research, cultural capital, higher education, political interest, social inequality, SCHOOL SUCCESS, YOUNG, PARTICIPATION, SOCIALIZATION, CLASSROOM, CHOICE, ATTAINMENT, MOTHERS, STUDENT, FAMILY |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10191667 |
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