The article analyzes the role of innovative mass media, in particular Internet process political socialization Russian youth, taking place context deep socioeconomic and transformations, globalization digitalization. transformational potential technologies is undeniable today. Political news aggregators, online bloggers, anonymous Telegraph channels present a broad range information opinion. Co...

Macropartisanship varies substantially from cohort to cohort. Much of this variation is attributable to partisan generational effects. Using Sears and Valentino’s (1997) theory of event-driven political socialization, I argue that partisan generational effects are caused by the national policy mood during a cohort’s impressionable adolescent years. To test this hypothesis, I first measure chang...

Using a sample of 125 lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adoptive parent couples with young children (M = 6.32 years), this study examined predictors of direct socialization (preparation for adoptism, racism, and heterosexism) and indirect socialization (modeling interactions by responding to outsiders' inquiries about their child's adoptive status, racial background, or family structure). In terms...

We study the reproduction and change of participatory political culture by examining how immigrants' engagement develops in cross-pressure between their country residence ancestral country. To explain patterns (re)socialization, we suggest a mechanism proximity-conditioned social diffusion, which stipulates that retention adoption given is function spatial temporal proximity to native bearers t...