The intergenerational reproduction of self-direction at work: Revisiting Class and Conformity.
In his path-breaking monograph, Class and Conformity , Melvin Kohn reasoned that parents prepare their children for the same conditions of work that they themselves experience. Kohn and his colleagues' research focused on the influence of parental self-direction at work on parental child-rearing val...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 104; no. 1; pp. 320 - 341 |
|---|---|
| Autores principales: | , , , , |
| Formato: | Artículo |
| Publicado: |
Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2025
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=186811207&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 186811207 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00377732 SFR jtl: Social Forces issn: 00377732 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2025 vid: 104 iid: 1 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 186811207 10.1093/sf/soaf016 ppf: 320 ppct: 21 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 982KB tig: atl: The intergenerational reproduction of self-direction at work: Revisiting Class and Conformity. aug: au: Burger, Kaspar Mele, Francesca Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick Mortimer, Jeylan Han, Xiaowen affil: Department of Education, University of Potsdam, Campus Golm, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany Department of Social Sciences, University of Luxembourg, 2, place de l'Université, 4365 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development, University of Zurich, Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland Social Research Institute, Institute of Education, University College London, 55-59 Gordon Square, WC1H 0AL London, United Kingdom Department of Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-4020, United States of America Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 267 19th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States of America su: Social status Parental influences Social psychology Mental orientation Structural equation modeling Youth development sug: subj: Social status Parental influences Social psychology Mental orientation Structural equation modeling Youth development keyword: inequality/social stratification life course social psychology work/labor process inequality/social stratification life course social psychology work/labor process ab: In his path-breaking monograph, Class and Conformity , Melvin Kohn reasoned that parents prepare their children for the same conditions of work that they themselves experience. Kohn and his colleagues' research focused on the influence of parental self-direction at work on parental child-rearing values and practices, as well as the self-directed values of children. The intergenerational transmission of occupational self-direction from parents to the succeeding generation of adult children, strongly implied by Kohn's analysis, has not been empirically tested. Using two-generation longitudinal data from the Youth Development Study (N = 1139), we estimate a structural equation model to assess the intergenerational continuity of occupational self-direction. We find evidence supporting a key inference of Kohn's analysis: that self-direction at work, a primary feature of jobs of higher social class standing, is transmitted across generations via self-directed psychological orientations, operationalized here as intrinsic work values. Intrinsic values also significantly predicted second-generation educational attainment, contributing further to the reproduction of socioeconomic inequality. The findings enhance understanding of the intergenerational transmission of advantage. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|