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Nurturing Citizens: Secure Attachment and Democratic Citizenship
Author(s) -
MacKenzie Murdoch C.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.2002.tb00478.x
Subject(s) - citizenship , attachment theory , democracy , politics , sociology , style (visual arts) , political science , law and economics , social psychology , psychology , law , archaeology , history
Attachment research has been concerned with social policy issues as well as with individual pathology and dysfunction. This paper applies attachment theory to the large populations addressed by sociology and political science. It argues that modern citizenship requires qualities similar to those found in securely attached adults. It proposes an approach that links the development of adult citizenship behaviours with infant attachment style and the child's induction into the family's construction of reality. Discussion of the implications of this approach and proposals for future research complete the paper.