What’s the matter with civil society? The declining effect of
civic involvement on civic identity among Czech adolescents

J 2017

What’s the matter with civil society? The declining effect of civic involvement on civic identity among Czech adolescents

ŠEREK, Jan

Basic information

Original name

What’s the matter with civil society? The declining effect of civic involvement on civic identity among Czech adolescents

Authors

ŠEREK, Jan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Youth & Society, SAGE Publications, 2017, 0044-118X

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.130

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/17:00095832

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118X16637883

UT WoS

000408883400002

Keywords in English

adolescents; civic identity; civic involvement; civil associations; postcommunism; professionalization; volunteering

Abstract

V originále

This study shows that the beneficial impact of adolescents’ involvement in civil society on their civic identity cannot be taken for granted. Employing the case of the Czech Republic, it is shown that this effect has vanished since early postcommunism to the present day. Survey data from two different generations of Czech middle adolescents were analyzed: the postcommunist generation (collected in 1995; n = 1,127) and the current generation (collected in 2010; n = 976). While participants’ associational involvement and volunteering predicted their stronger civic identity (i.e., psychological connection and sense of responsibility to fellow citizens) in 1995, no such effect was observed in 2010. Simultaneously, both associational involvement and volunteering were determined by the economic situation of adolescents’ family in 2010, but not in 1995. The most likely reason for the vanishing impact of civic involvement is the advancing professionalization of civil society.

Links

EE2.3.30.0009, research and development project

Name: Zaměstnáním čerstvých absolventů doktorského studia k vědecké excelenci

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ŠEREK, Jan. What’s the matter with civil society? The declining effect of civic involvement on civic identity among Czech adolescents. Youth & Society. SAGE Publications, 2017, vol. 49, No 7, p. 879-901. ISSN 0044-118X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118X16637883.

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ŠEREK, Jan. What’s the matter with civil society? The declining effect of civic involvement on civic identity among Czech adolescents. \textit{Youth \&{} Society}. SAGE Publications, 2017, vol.~49, No~7, p.~879-901. ISSN~0044-118X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118X16637883.

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