Project Details
Projekt
Internalized Gender and Parenting Norms and their Politicization in Comparative Perspective
Subject Area
Empirical Social Research
Political Science
Political Science
Term
since 2021
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 439346934
The project analyzes norms regarding gender and parenting which relate to the share and intensity of mothers’ and fathers’ allocations of time for their children. Such norms are highly contested in present societies, both between and within social structural groups, for example among women or the highly educated. In line with the general RISS II framework, we will focus on the politicization of gender and parenting issues. Our main research questions are: • RQ1: In how far are individuals’ gender and parenting norms shaped by the social-structural and political context of their country and how do such contextual characteristics modify the association between individuals’ social-structural group memberships and their gender and parenting norms? • RQ2: Under which political and social structural conditions and for which (sub-)groups do gender and parenting norms become politicized and associated with individuals’ political attitudes and (voting) behaviors? RQ1 focuses on gender and parenting norms as dependent variables that may be shaped by societies’ social-structural reconfiguration and the degree of a countries’ politicization of gender and family issues. RQ2 analyses gender and parenting norms as independent variables that may become politicized under specific macro conditions and influence individuals’ political preferences and voting behaviors. In order to analyze our research questions, we consider national variation in gender and parenting norms as both dependent and independent variables. We combine three strategies: First, a targeted further analysis of the available RISS data infrastructure for the German case. These data allow for investigating country-of-origin differences (Turkish-origin, Dutch-origin; East Germans, West Germans). Second, a matching in-depth comparative case study for a small set of countries (Germany, Turkey, the Netherlands) using the new RISS data infrastructure to be collected during the second funding phase. Third, a comparative multi-country study, using newly available data from RISS, as well as data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) 2022 with its focus on “Family and Changing Gender Roles”.
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