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Cultural and Individual Determinants of (Changing) Family Values and Intergenerational Solidarity
No full textThe current paper focuses on cross-cultural differences and similarities as well as cultural change processes with regard to family values and intergenerational solidarity. First, I will summarize our research from the Value of Children-study regarding the cultural determinants of patterns of family values (family models) and regarding the intergenerational transmission of these patterns (Mayer, 2009; Mayer, Trommsdorff, Kagitcibasi, & Mishra, 2012). The implications of these findings for Kagitcibasi’s Theory of Family Change will be discussed (Mayer, 2013). Second, we will focus on the role of religiosity and affluence for different kinds of adolescents’ family orientations (traditional values versus personal future orientation), both at the cultural and at the individual level (Mayer et al., 2015). Third, we explore how parent-reported parenting goals and behaviors are related to adolescents’ intergenerational solidarity across 14 cultures, and how these effects differ between cultural groups according to specific cultural characteristics (Mayer, Schwarz, & Trommsdorff, 2015)
Jane Mayer, 32nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textJane Mayer joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1995. She writes about politics for the magazine, and has been covering the war on terror. Recent subjects include Alberto Mora and the Pentagon’s secret torture policy, how the United States out-sources torture, the prison at Guantánamo Bay, and the legality of C.I.A. interrogations. She has also written about George W. Bush, the bin Laden family, and Sarah Palin. Mayer was the 2008 winner of the John Chancellor Award for Journalistic Excellence. She was also a 2009 finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Mayer is the author of the best-selling 2008 book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War in Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, which was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times, The Economist Magazine, Salon, Slate and Bloomberg
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