<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This study investigates the consequences of intergenerational social mobility for the transmission of political ideology from parents to adult children, taking the parental ideology explicitly into account. Analyses using German and Swiss household data show that especially the vertically upwardly mobile are less influenced by the parental ideology. However, longitudinal analyses do not indicate causal effects, but a self-selection mechanism into social mobility. These findings have consequences for the perception of social mobility effects.</p></abstract>

This study investigates the consequences of intergenerational social mobility for the transmission of political ideology from parents to adult children, taking the parental ideology explicitly into account. Analyses using German and Swiss household data show that especially the vertically upwardly mobile are less influenced by the parental ideology. However, longitudinal analyses do not indicate causal effects, but a self-selection mechanism into social mobility. These findings have consequences for the perception of social mobility effects.

Opposing Forces? Intergenerational Social Mobility and the Transmission of Political Ideology

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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This study investigates the consequences of intergenerational social mobility for the transmission of political ideology from parents to adult children, taking...

Opposing Forces? Intergenerational Social Mobility and the Transmission of Political Ideology

Published Online: Nov 26, 2020

Page range: 369 - 395

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2020-0019

Keywords
political socialization, social mobility, intergenerational transmission

© 2020 Mathilde M. van Ditmars, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Opposing Forces? Intergenerational Social Mobility and the Transmission of Political Ideology

Published Online: Nov 26, 2020

Page range: 369 - 395

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2020-0019

Keywordspolitical socialization, social mobility, intergenerational transmission

© 2020 Mathilde M. van Ditmars, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
political socialization, social mobility, intergenerational transmission