Citation

Veugelers JWP. Int. Sociol. 2013; 28(4): 429-447.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0268580913494233

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article examines the relations between parental politics and the choice of activists entering radical movements of the communist left or neo-fascist right between the late 1960s and early 1980s in Italy. Analysis reveals a dominant pattern of parent-child continuity that reproduced the main sociopolitical cleavage but also some discontinuity (with activists from non-partisan households over-represented). Overall the findings confirm the importance of primary social networks while also suggesting claims about generational revolt in the postwar West neglect the patterned complexity of intra-family political relations; overstate the importance of discontinuity; and underestimate the resilience of established cleavages.

Language: en