Family Ideology Research Articles

“A Future for White Children”: Examining Family Ideologies of White Extremist Groups at the Intersection of Race and Gender

Many White Americans believe that racism, racial violence, and hate groups are relics of the past, and yet we have witnessed the resurgence of White extremist groups and overt racism in recent years. This resurgence requires an examination of White extremist ideologies, particularly as they center traditional family values in justifying their extremism. In this study, we utilize a content analysis of the websites of six White extremist organizations to examine ideologies surrounding the family at the intersection of race and gender. Furthermore, we question why these ideologies take shape as they do and the potential implications of espousing family values with a rise in White extremism. Our study addresses the gender gap in existing White extremist research and highlights the need for an intersectional approach in understanding how ideologies differ between a White extremist group specifically for women and those under the leadership of men.

Investigating how parental participation shapes the educational attainment of Indian children

Although greater participation from parents is preferred, it does not always translate into better outcomes. Examining the link between parental involvement in the home and academic achievement is the goal of this study. Data were collected from 337 students at Chandigarh University (CU) in India. The researcher gathered the primary dataset from two nations during the academic year. How this study develops the concept of feature aggregation significantly increased the age group of students' prediction accuracy. Compared to students from more distant or indirect profiles of family participation, students from households with aggressive parenting approaches frequently underperformed. Even after the impacts of context or background variables have been considered, parental participation patterns continue to affect learning outcomes at the level of each kid and the school. Schools should consider parental engagement when creating family knowledge and teaching programs since it is crucial for student success. At schools with more open family ideologies, there is less intra school diversity in student academic success.

The Imagination of Women’s Solidarity Against Normal Family Ideology in the Neoliberal Era: An Analysis of the Movie Good-bye Single

The Imagination of Women’s Solidarity Against Normal Family Ideology in the Neoliberal Era: An Analysis of the Movie Good-bye Single

Family Disaster: The Origins of Gender Violence Legislation in Turkey.

This article provides a case study regarding struggles over framing gender violence as a political issue. It looks at how gender violence initially entered political discourse and state legislation in Turkey. It identifies the main political actors as feminists, Islamists, and Kemalists, and examines their impacts on state policy-making processes and outcomes. It argues that, in the Turkish context, the Islamism-Kemalism divide contoured the limits and possibilities of frame institutionalization in legislation and characterized state responses to gender violence through familial ideology, which prioritized family privacy and unity over women's right to live free from violence.

광고에 나타난 기억 활용 방식과 그 의미에 관한 연구

This study deals with the ways of using memory in advertisements and its meaning through PR advertisements of Hyundai Motor Company released in China and Europe. To this end, this study dealt with the fact that advertisements in theoretical discussions make the meaning of products understood as a cultural or social dimension. In particular, it was discussed that corporate PR advertisements have a broader and covertly operated ideological meaning than general product advertisements. This study viewed corporate PR advertisements as a 'brand story text' and set narrative theory as a research methodology to see how memories are reproduced in advertisements. The research results are as follows. First of all, the Chinese advertisement 'Family Photo' contained the familial ideology that the value of happiness can be acquired through a return to the family. Here, family photography is a medium for the protagonist to remember the past, and Hyundai Motors become a means of presenting or realizing the memory. European advertisement 'Next Awaits' emphasizes the value of progress through the story of national reconstruction. To this end, it shows the achievements of Hyundai Motor as well as Hyundai Group. In particular, in advertisement, memory is used to compare the company's narrative with modern Korean history and human history. The memory summoned for this is the founder's track record and role, and advertisement refers to the corporate value of progress through this. Furthermore, advertisement emphasizes that the past remembered by advertisement can acquire universality, while maintaining that corporate value is a value that should be pursued from the standpoint of humanity and world history beyond a company or country. Ultimately, these advertisements are understood to have utilized memory as a way to newly build the myth of 'hyundai' into the myth of 'contemporary' of familialism, nationalism, and historical progress.

Gendered precarity in Saudi Arabia: Examining the state policies and patriarchal culture in the labor market

AbstractThis study explores the intersection of state‐driven policies, patriarchal culture, and gender precarity in the Saudi Arabian retail sector, drawing on twenty‐six in‐depth interviews with employees and other stakeholders. We offer a comprehensive understanding of the multi‐layered nature of precarity, focusing on the role of the patriarchal state and culture in perpetuating gender inequalities and shaping individuals' subjective experiences of precarity against the backdrop of structural precarity. For Saudi men, state‐driven policies exacerbate job insecurity and challenge traditional family ideology and the breadwinner model. However, Saudi women faced socio‐economic vulnerability and organisational neglect, leading to underreporting of sexual harassment and limited protests against it. This antagonistic interplay of state policies and entrenched socio‐religious norms creates both structural and subjective precarity in workplaces. Our study highlights the complexities in addressing gender disparities, emphasizing the intersectionality of gender, religiosity, and power relations. It contributes to understanding gender dynamics in Saudi Arabia by illustrating how state policies and patriarchal culture shape both structural and subjective forms of precarity and emphasizes the importance of fostering feminist consciousness amongst women as part of a broader strategy for addressing gender inequalities.

Building Pious Generations in Turkey: The Islamization of Childhood in the Children's Magazine of the Directorate of Religious Affairs

AbstractThe present study examines the recent ideological and cultural apparatuses aimed at the Islamization of children in Turkey through the example of the Children's Magazine, published periodically by the Directorate of Religious Affairs (DRA). Since 2002, under the Islamist government in Turkey, the Directorate of Religious Affairs has progressively evolved into an ideological apparatus that operates in alignment with the government's social objectives. The DRA, supported by significant state funding, has become an institution that holds discussions on matters of family, children, youth, and gender. Seeking to align the government's ideological goals with the Islamization of society, the Directorate of Religious Affairs has placed special emphasis on cultural policies, media, and publishing. The Children's Magazine is one of the monthly publications produced by the Directorate of Religious Affairs, which has evolved into a significant cultural enterprise. The magazine conveys a religious pedagogy rooted in Sunni Hanafi Islam and a nationalist‐conservative family ideology. It not only reinforces the prevailing ideology on religious matters but also promotes the political strategies of the government and the newly established official historical narrative.

Three Decades on Russia’s Path of the Second Demographic Transition: How Patterns of Fertility are Changing Under an Unstable Demographic Policy

This study aims to highlight the changes in fertility patterns of Russians which occurred after the USSR’s dissolution or disintegration, taking a long historical perspective. After that disruption, thirty cohorts were born and raised who never lived under the Soviet system. Fifteen more cohorts (those who were born between 1975 and 1990) remember that system only as a part of childhood, but their adult life started after the iron curtain had fallen and a flood of new ideas and practices spilled into all spheres of life.
 At the same time, the increased concern among the Russian elite about the declining population and low birth rates led to the adoption of a pronatalist family policy based on monetarist approaches reinforced by conservative-traditionalist ideology.
 Our main research question asks: To what extent did state social and family policies in Russia, which are based on the ideology of traditionalism and conservatism, derail or slow down the modernization of the quantitative and structural parameters of fertility patterns within the Second Demographic Transition context?
 Our analysis is based on indicators from period and cohort fertility tables, specific for age and parity. Extrapolations are used for Russia’s female cohorts born 1971-1994 to arrive at expected ultimate fertility outcomes.
 Our evidence, obtained from the comprehensive analysis of fertility tables, reveals that the transformation of the Russian fertility model continues to be in line with the Second Demographic Transition common to developed countries, and that two decades of active pronatalist policy in the context of strengthening the conservative family ideology did not stop the modernization of fertility patterns.
 * This article belongs to a special issue on “Demographic Developments in Eastern and Western Europe Before and After the Transformation of Socialist Countries”.

Family ideology: uneasy entanglements of eldercare in Germany

AbstractMaterial pressures on privatized households are commonly absorbed through a family ideology, according to which members must pool resources and care for each other, while the family relations they thereby nurture are inherently valuable and constitute their own reward. Drawing on my fieldwork on family‐based eldercare in Germany, I explore the implications of this ideology. Specifically, I argue that it mollifies family caregivers’ unease about the injustices of Germany's eldercare system. Family members are entangled in this system as employers of mostly low‐paid, migrant caregivers; as performers of unremunerated care work at high personal costs; and, if they are women, as reproducers of a gendered division of care labour they object to and resent. Because this entanglement is filtered through the lens of family ideology, the focus of family caregivers shifts away from these broader injustices and towards co‐caregiver conflicts as well as expectations from and commitments towards other family members.

Heteronormativity

Unity has been touted as the cornerstone of Indonesian nationalism since its declaration in 1945. With the national motto Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, Indonesian unity holds a sacred and absolute status. However, in reality, unity sometimes becomes a national problem. This article revisits Indonesian unity by shedding light on its darker aspects, namely heteronormativity, and introduces how Indonesian unity can be supported by a new ontological alternative: pluriverse. The study provides a brief historical overview of the New Order era and the family ideology that shaped an adherence to heteronormative norms, and followed by exploration of the pluriverse as an ethical ontological foundation that can deepen the struggle for unity.

Assessing The Issues of Honour and Violence Against Women: A Human Rights Discourse Framework for The Detection of Violence Against Women

The term 'Honour Killing' is conventionally used to denote a specific category of extralegal killings where the act of murder is seen to have been motivated by pre-modern affiliations/sentiments of some sort. Acts of violence committed against people for marrying outside of caste/religion/ethnicity or other similar infringements where they are seen by their actions to have besmirched the honour of the family and the larger community come under the broad rubric of honour crime. Implicit in using the term are assumptions that mark it as different from other crimes. Honour is defined in terms of women assigned sexual and familial roles as dictated by traditional family ideology. Thus, adultery, premarital relationships (which may or may not include sexual relations), rape, and falling in love with an "inappropriate" person may constitute violations of family honour. 'Crimes of honour' as a form of violence against women does not imply that men also are not subjected to such crimes. In cases of forced marriage or interference with the right of choice and whom to marry, pressure from older family members over younger members will apply to men as well as to women. However, women remain the victims and survivors of 'crimes of honour' and have fewer available remedies.

Do Turkish Political Parties Pledge In Line With Their Party Family Ideologies? A Quantitative Analysis of Turkish Political Parties’ Manifesto Documents

In the Western political science literature, modern political parties are grouped into party families, i.e., social democrat, socialist, communist, Christian democrat, liberal, radical, conservative, farmer-peasant, right-wing extremist, regional-ethnic parties and environmental movements. Categorizing a large number of political parties into a small number of party families is important not only for scientific reasons but also for practical ones. A correct categorization would help voters to better evaluate political parties and make more conscious voting decisions. Nevertheless, despite its central importance, the party family is one of the least empirically researched topics in the political science literature. More specifically, the literature on party family particularly lacks sufficient empirical investigations into the link between parties’ issue positions and their family locations. Moreover, to my knowledge, no previous study has investigated to what extent the Western party family phenomenon able to group political parties in a non-Western country. In order to fill this gap, this study aims to answer the following research question: Do Turkish political parties’ issue positions, as revealed in their manifesto documents, align with their expected party family locations? Answering this research question I hypothesize that Turkish political parties’ issue positions do not correspond to their expected party family locations. Results of the empirical analysis of the Manifesto Project data largely supported this hypothesis and one can now safely argue that Turkish political parties do not pledge in line with values suggested by the Western party family categorization.

ART OF TEKE AND WOMAN IDEOLOGY IN THE NGADA HERITAGE, EAST NUSA TENGGARA

The art of teke, which is a part of the Ngadha people's traditional cultural practices, is the material object of this investigation. The formal object concerns the axiology of women's ideology and its existence. What feminist philosophy is expressed in the teke cultural heritage is the central question of this cultural study. This study explores cultural codes based on traditional Ngada hermeneutics in order to analyze the data through qualitative research methods. The research findings offer a fresh perspective on the distinctiveness of the ine weta ideology, which is a set of beliefs about women specific to the matriarchal Ngadha cultural tradition. More than that, ine weta's ideology actually celebrates gender equality through the joy of dance, poetry, and song. This ideology in the art of teke hermeneutics is a variant of the familial ideology, which must be built and purified through teachings, actions, and celebrations in the light of mesu mora (‘charity love’) harmoniously, closely, roundly, and beautifully in the world of life. The conclusion of this writing is that the authors undertake a cultural study in order to contribute to the discussion of women’s equality by proposing one category of woman ideology found in the matriarchal culture of Ngada, namely, the ideology of ine weta (‘mother-sister’) as a variant of familial ideology uncovered in the art of teke.

How Does Religion Influence Parental Support of Young Adult Children?

Religion is an important cultural institution that shapes family ideologies and behaviors. Although previous research has documented religious differences in parenting behaviors and parent–child relationships in adolescence, how religion influences parental support of young adult children is not clear. Using data from the Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID, 2005–2017; N = 9,754 person-years), we employed mixed-effect logistic and linear regression models to examine the impacts of young adults’ religious affiliation, religious salience, and parent–child religious concordance on parental coresidence and financial support. The results show that mainline Protestant and Catholic young adults are more likely than nonreligious youth to live with their parents. Catholic and Jewish young adults receive more financial support from their parents than nonreligious youth did when they are religiously concordant with their mother. The associations between religious affiliation and parental support are strengthened by young adults’ religious salience and religious concordance with their mother.

보조생식술 접근에의 사회적 제한은 비윤리적인가?

Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) publisched opinions on ‘Access to fertility treatment by gays, lesbians, and unmarried persons’ four times between 2006 and 2021. This paper aims to review these opinions critically. ASRM finally views the restriction of access to assisted reproductive technology not only for unmarried women, which is a major subject of discussion in Korean society, but also for unmarried men, gays and lesbians, as ‘unethical’. After summarizing the Ethics Committee’s opinions (Chapter II), the validity of the ASRM’s opinions was examined, focusing on Committee’s three main arguments. First of all, ASRM argues that reproductive interests should be protected as a human right called ‘reproductive rights’ regardless of marital status or sexual orientation. This paper examined the theoretical and legal limitations of the concept of ‘reproductive rights’ (Chapter III). Second, ASRM argues that parents' marital status or sexual orientation has no negative effect on children. This paper pointed out the problem of ASRM's approach to frame this issue as a confrontation between ‘normal family ideology’ and ‘science’, and then, the scientific problems, that is, the limitation of data and the problem of hasty generalization(Chapter IV). Third, ASRM argues that the ‘conscientious objection’ of doctors for reason of marital status or sexual orientation is an act that promotes discrimination and oppression, and is a right that violates the current law (Anti-Discrimination Act) and medical ethics, so the enforcement of that right should be limited. This article pointed out the legal and logical limitations of these arguments(Chapter V). Through such a critical review, this paper came to the conclusion that it is difficult to apply ASRM's opinions on the issue to Korean society due to their logical, scientific, and legal limitations. Ultimately, this paper was intended to contribute to publicize that ASRM opinions have a fundamental limitation, that is, the limitation as a ‘utilitarian approach to ethical problems’, in addition to its logical problems.

‘It happens in the best families’: gender and family ideologies in Jordanian family-related proverbs

ABSTRACT This study discusses gender and family-related proverbs in Jordanian Arabic (JA). It employs Hofstede’s dimensions of culture, especially the following: power distance, masculinity-femininity, and individualism-collectivism. These concepts help interpret culturally specific meanings in these short sayings. The data contain 100 JA proverbs. They are analysed in light of Hofstede’s model to identify the values inherent in ideas of family, power distribution between family members and gender practices. With reference to literature, the analysis reveals similarities with other cultures in some socio-cultural norms. The study suggests that patriarchal values and norms are widespread across cultures and that proverbs reveal this ideology.

Competing Family Pathways for Immigrants and Their Descendants in Germany

Immigrants bring contemporary demographic changes to the destination country through their contributions to diversity, and future population. In this study, we examine the partnership and fertility trajectories for individuals with Turkish, Russian, Kazak, Polish, and Southern European backgrounds born between 1970 and 1999. We adopt a life course perspective using event history techniques on retrospective partnership and birth histories of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) Survey. By treating first entrance into cohabitation, marriage, and parenthood as competing events, we illuminate not only the differences in family ideologies between natives and immigrants but also highlight the heterogeneity among immigrant origin groups and generations in family formation pathways. Convergence with natives occurs at different paces for immigrant groups. Controlling cohort effects and socioeconomic conditions, individuals with Turkish background stand out with an earlier and higher level of entrance into marriage and parenthood, with only modest changes across birth cohorts and migrant generations. The risk of nonmarital or pre-marital childbearing is lower for non-European immigrants than for German natives. Marriage remains an important institution to individuals of some immigrant backgrounds, despite global trends in the rise of cohabitation and nonmarital childbearing in recent years. This work serves to highlight the diversification of family types in a leading migration country.

Structuring Gender: A Study of Unidentified Self of Jack in The Confessions of the Fox by Rosenberg

The present study is an endeavor to explore the forcefully imposed binary opposition of this world, and the division of human beings on the basis of their sex. This study aims to offer a comprehensive description of gender as a construction of society based on sex as portrayed in Confessions of the Fox. Gender construction starts with birth, sex of a baby becomes its sex category and is supposed to have a constructed gender status through dressing naming and other gender markers. Organizations and institutions reinforced gender expectations from individual’s gender, an institution. It establishes norms for daily expectations incorporated into major social institutions like family ideology and politics. Gender is defined completely constructed by society while sex is a characteristic biologically defined. The author explicates in a well-defined way about the gender as a social construction through Jack, the protagonist of the novel and his difficulties in the whole life because he was not having a constructed gender based on sex. Judith Lorber’s theoretical lens observe this phenomenon of gender; only constructed by the society and one is supposed to meet up all the required fields of settled patterns of society on the basis of gender. The novel addresses the major issue of human beings created by the society. The story of the selected novel shows that how much difficult it is to live in a society where a person is not having a defined and clear role and gender. The present study centers on the role and difficulties of a person who is not defined socially on the base of his sex and gender.

Changing the Image of Woman and the Family Model: Rethinking the Traditional Way of Life in the Current Realities of Japanese Society

The paper focuses on the study of the image of Japanese mothers in modern Japanese society in the context of rethinking the traditional way of life. In the course of the research, there was made an attempt to establish what underlies the value model of modern Japanese women and to analyze the degree of influence of habitual traditional gender stereotypes. The author considers the phases of the formation of the family institution in Japan and states that the principles of Confucian ethics, manifested in the presence of moral norms of behavior, attitudes and prescriptions, can be traced in the minds of modern Japanese. However, in the conditions of accelerated socialization of women and the ongoing process of atomization of families, the burden of responsibility from traditional expectations put on a woman increases, leading to adverse consequences in the form of “neuroses in the background of raising children”. The article discusses the changes in the structure of female employment over the past decades, in order to identify problems associated with the distribution of gender roles and the changing position of Japanese women in society. As a result of the study, it was suggested that despite the tendency in Japan to shift the value model towards individualism, the features of traditional family ideology are preserved, as evidenced by the presence of numerous proverbs and idioms of the Japanese language dedicated to family relationships and based on Confucian ethics. In such a society, social roles and labor functions are still divided and consolidated, the observance of the hierarchy is maintained, despite the disintegration of traditional ties, social division, separation from the clan and large family groups.

Unwanted Consequences: The Trade-Off between Gender Equality and Precarity in Saudi Arabian Context

This paper looks at the Saudi state policies impact on reducing labour market inequalities and increasing female labour force participation against the socio-institutional backdrop of enduring patriarchy and gender segregation. Analysis of twenty-six in-depth interviews with employees (men and women) and other stakeholders in the retail sector offered contributions to extant precarity research by unpacking both socio-institutional and organisational mechanisms that contribute to/exacerbate structural precarity. Specifically, we highlight psychological precarity as experienced by both genders. For men, this is heightened in job insecurity and weakening of the family ideology and the breadwinner model, while for women it is portrayed in the internalisation of sexual harassment given their socio-economic vulnerability and lack of organisational protection(s). We highlight how structural changes via state-driven policies may clash with the slower to change societal structures and socio-religious norms; resulting in the experience of both structural and psychological precarity in workplaces.