What's the Matter with Civil Society? The Declining Effect of Civic Involvement on Civic Identity among Czech Adolescents

Autor/inn/en	Šerek, Jan
Titel	What's the Matter with Civil Society? The Declining Effect of Civic Involvement on Civic Identity among Czech Adolescents
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 49 (2017) 7, S.879-901 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X16637883
Schlagwörter	Citizen Participation; Self Concept; Social Change; Adolescents; Surveys; Volunteers; Prediction; Citizenship Responsibility; Economic Factors; Age Differences; Family Characteristics; Foreign Countries; Professional Identity; Secondary School Students; Student Attitudes; Prosocial Behavior; Correlation; Parenting Styles; Czech Republic + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Selbstkonzept; Sozialer Wandel; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Freiwilliger; Vorhersage; Ökonomischer Faktor; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Ausland; Sekundarschüler; Schülerverhalten; Korrelation; Tschechische Republik
Abstract	This study shows that the beneficial impact of adolescents' involvement in civil society on their civic identity cannot be taken for granted. Employing the case of the Czech Republic, it is shown that this effect has vanished since early postcommunism to the present day. Survey data from two different generations of Czech middle adolescents were analyzed: the postcommunist generation (collected in 1995; n = 1,127) and the current generation (collected in 2010; n = 976). While participants' associational involvement and volunteering predicted their stronger civic identity (i.e., psychological connection and sense of responsibility to fellow citizens) in 1995, no such effect was observed in 2010. Simultaneously, both associational involvement and volunteering were determined by the economic situation of adolescents' family in 2010, but not in 1995. The most likely reason for the vanishing impact of civic involvement is the advancing professionalization of civil society. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01