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Intergenerational transmission of environmental household practices among South Korean families

Continuity and change

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ID13009553
AuthorsItay Greenspan (0000-0002-3588-8412, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author), T Katz-Gerro (0000-0002-1157-083X, University of Haifa), Femida Handy (0000-0003-3200-8042, California University of Pennsylvania), Sharon Park (Seoul National University)
Year2021
Volume11
Issue1
Pages101-125
Publication date2021-05-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFamilies Relationships and Societies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2046-7435 • E-ISSN: 2046-7443
PublisherPolicy Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/204674321x16172729233053
OpenAlexW3163944650
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited46

We seek to understand how environmentalism is experienced, discussed and transmitted by South Korean families in the context of changing economic and environmental circumstances. Qualitative interviews with three-generation Korean families are used, in a country characterised in the past fifty years by rapid economic changes alongside continuation of traditional collectivistic social structures. We emphasise the family unit as an arena for the transmission of cultural dispositions, routines, habits and practices across generations. Relying on social practice theoretical framing, our findings suggest that in a mix of continuity and change, family routines are translated into complementing centripetal and centrifugal forces to encompass four themes: transmission processes, routinising of cultural habits, top-down intergenerational transmission with shifting motivations, and top-down intergenerational transmission with declining involvement. We discuss these findings in light of the theoretical heuristic of environmental habitus

Collectivism · Cultural capital · Cultural transmission in animals · Environmentalism · Framing (construction · Geography · Habitus · Individualism · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Gender Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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Citations per year1,25
Citation span2022 - 2026 (5)
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