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

@article{28880,
   author = {Šerek, Jan},
   article_number = {7},
   keywords = {adolescents; civic identity; civic involvement; civil associations; postcommunism; professionalization; volunteering},
   language = {eng},
   issn = {0044-118X},
   journal = {Society},
   title = {What’s the matter with civil society? The declining effect of civic involvement on civic identity among Czech adolescents},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118X16637883},
   volume = {49},
   year = {2017}
}

TY  - JOUR
ID  - 28880
AU  - Šerek, Jan
PY  - 2017
TI  - What’s the matter with civil society? The declining effect of civic involvement on civic identity among Czech adolescents
JF  - Society
VL  - 49
IS  - 7
SP  - 879-901
EP  - 879-901
PB  - SAGE Publications
SN  - 0044-118X
KW  - adolescents
KW  - civic identity
KW  - civic involvement
KW  - civil associations
KW  - postcommunism
KW  - professionalization
KW  - volunteering
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118X16637883
N2  - 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.
ER  - 

ŠEREK, Jan. What’s the matter with civil society? The declining effect of civic involvement on civic identity among Czech adolescents. \textit{Society}. SAGE Publications, 2017, roč.~49, č.~7, s.~879-901. ISSN~0044-118X.