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Parental values in the UK

Baker, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4050-4735 and Barg, Katherin 2019. Parental values in the UK. British Journal of Sociology 70 (5) , pp. 2092-2115. 10.1111/1468-4446.12658

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Abstract

This article investigates the extent to which parental values differ between social groups in the UK at the start of the twenty‐first century. The study of parental values is an important area of sociological enquiry that can inform scholarship from across the social sciences concerned with educational inequality and cultural variability in family life. We draw on data from the Millennium Cohort Study to show how parent’s social class, religion, religiosity, race and ethnicity, and education are related to the qualities they would like their children to have. Our rank‐ordered regression models show that parents in service class occupations place significantly more importance on ‘thinking for self’ than ‘obey parents’ compared to those in routine manual occupations. We also show that although class matters, the relationship between education and parental values is particularly strong. Parenting values also differ by parental racial and ethnic background and by levels of religiosity.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher: Wiley
ISSN: 0007-1315
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 21 February 2019
Date of Acceptance: 18 February 2019
Last Modified: 06 Nov 2023 20:08
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/119773

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