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The role of culture in theories of the intergenerational transmission of violence

ABSTRACT

The intergenerational transmission of violence has been one of the most rigorously researched hypotheses in violence research in recent decades. A number of previous studies have provided evi-dence supporting this hypothesis, and there has been a growing body of literature investigating its mechanism. However, the role of culture in the intergenerational transmission of violence has not received much research attention, and thus, it remains largely unknown. To suggest a better theoretical basis for understanding the role of culture in the transmission mechanism, the present paper examines three critical theories that address the intergenerational phenomenon: Dodge’s social information processing theory, Nis-bett’s cultural cognitive theory and Turiel’s social-cognitive domain theory. The paper provides a review of the basic assumptions and core concepts of each theory and identifies the potential contribu-tions and gaps of each theory. The three theories present different accounts of the ontogenetic origins of ideas about violence and convey different portraits of the intergenerational mechanism. However, these theories also show that they are highly likely to be related to one another and that they can help close one another’s gaps. This paper suggests that a unified framework that can merge the personal and cultural factors of causation is necessary to better capture the dynamic interplay among culture, experiences with vio-lence and the actual enactment of violent behaviours.

COMMITMENT DEVIANCE

Commitment, Deviance, and Social Control

Author(s): Jeffery T. Ulmer and Jeffrey T. Ulmer

Source: The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Summer, 2000), pp. 315-336 Published by: Wiley on behalf of the Midwest Sociological Society

Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4121380 .

Accessed: 15/10/2014 22:52

Attitudes and Family Violence

Attitudes and Family Violence: Linking Intergenerational and Cultural Theories

Fred E. Markowitz1,2

Drawing on intergenerational transmission and cultural ( attitudinal) theo­ries, this study examines the extent to which attitudes help explain (1) the relationship between experiencing violence while growing up and subsequent violence against one's children and spouse, and (2) demographic differences in violence. Structural equation modeling techniques are used to examine data from a representative sample of the general population and a sample of ex­offenders. The findings indicate that experiencing violence while growing up is related to favorable attitudes towards violence against spouses. The experi­ence of violence while growing up and attitudes are related to violence against both children and spouses. The relationship between experiencing violence while growing up and engaging in violence against spouses is mediated by at­titudes. The results also suggest that men and nonwhites are more approving of violence towards spouses. However, attitudes do not account for demographic differences in violence against children and spouses.

A Social Process Model of Adolescent Deviance

KEY WORDS: violence; attitudes; intergenerational transmission; subculture

INTRODUCTION

Family violence is unevenly distributed across social categories. Per­sons who are younger, nonwhite, and those who are lower in socioeconomic standing are more likely to use physical means of punishing their children as well as engaging in violence toward their spouses (Gelles, 1990; Gil, 1970; Hotaling and Sugarman, 1986; Straus and Gelles, 1990). Several studies have

1 Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University, Illinois.

2To whom correspondence should be addressed at Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois

A Social Process Model of Adolescent Deviance:

Combining Social Control and Differential

Association Perspectives

Kristan Glasgow Erickson,1 Robert Crosnoe,2 and

Sanford M. Dornbusch3

Received June 28, 1999; accepted April 19, 2000

This paper examines social factors associated with changes in 2 forms of ado-lescent deviance, substance use and delinquency. Using longitudinal data, the re-search evaluates a model that combines ideas from 2 sociological explanations of crime. The model specifies 2 processes by which conventional social bonds reduce adolescent deviance over time: Strong social bonds indirectly reduce deviance by decreasing associations with deviant peers and by decreasing susceptibility to the negative influences of peers. The results of path analyses, using measures of peer deviance that are based on actual responses from the adolescents’ close friends, support the conceptual model. Deviant friendships and susceptibility linked social bonds to both forms of problem behavior. Bonds were more consistently related to friends’ substance use than to friends’ delinquency. Supplementary analyses within gender subgroups indicate that the deviance of males was more strongly affected by the actions of friends than was deviance of females.

A Longitudinal Examination of an Integrated

A social process model of deviant behavior incorporating constructs derived from both social bonding and differential association theories is used to explain adoles­cent cigarette smoking. The model hypothesizes that the bonding constructs ex­plain the variance in associating with adolescents who smoke and/or have favor­able attitudes toward smoking. Both the bonding and differential association constructs are expected to have direct effects on adolescent cigarette smoking. Us­ing a structural equation approach to analyze three years of panel data on 1,065 seventh-twelfth graders, support is found for the predicted interrelationships of the bonding and differential association constructs and the effects of those con­structs on adolescent smoking in the third year of the study.

A Further Look at the Intergenerational Transmission of Violence

A Further Look at the Intergenerational Transmission of Violence: Witnessing Interparental Violence in Emerging Adulthood

David S. Black, Steve Sussman and Jennifer B. Unger

J Interpers Violence 2010 25: 1022 originally published online 2 October 2009 DOI: 10.1177/0886260509340539

The online version of this article can be found at:

http://jiv.sagepub.com/content/25/6/1022

A Comparison of Social Development Processes Leading to Violent

A Comparison of Social Development Processes Leading to Violent Behavior in Late Adolescence for Childhood Initiators and Adolescent Initiators of Violence

TODD I. HERRENKOHL, BU HUANG, RICK KOSTERMAN, J. DAVID HAWKINS, RICHARD F. CATALANO and BRIAN H. SMITH

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 2001 38: 45

DOI: 10.1177/0022427801038001003

The online version of this article can be found at:

http://jrc.sagepub.com/content/38/1/45

Sex And Sensibility by 

Andrew Cohen

Sex and Sensibility is an depth article that analyzes a societal norm where women feel the need to be "women before professional athletes. 

Combating the overuse epidemic

BY GREG BACH AND ADAM SHILLING

As elite competition increases in youth sports, so does injuries. 

bringing it all back home

by Kelli Anderson

The article looks at the Xavier University women's basketball team, focusing on the efforts of players Ta'Shia Phillips and Amber Harris to win the national championship. Comments from coach Kevin McGuff on the relationship of Phillips and Harris are presented. The author mentions that Harris was eligible to enter the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) draft, but declined.