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Legacy Volunteering: A Test of Two Theories of Intergenerational Transmission
Author(s) -
Mustillo Sarah,
Wilson John,
Lynch Scott M.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of marriage and family
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 159
eISSN - 1741-3737
pISSN - 0022-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2004.00036.x
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , daughter , volunteer , volunteer work , sociology , test (biology) , social psychology , psychology , demographic economics , demography , political science , economics , population , law , public relations , paleontology , agronomy , biology
Sociological theory suggests two reasons that volunteering runs in families. The first is that parents act as role models. The second is that parents who volunteer pass on the socioeconomic resources needed to do volunteer work. Panel data from two generations of women (N = 1,848) are analyzed to see how much influence family socioeconomic status and mother's volunteering have on daughter's volunteer careers. More highly educated women and women whose mothers volunteered donate more hours initially, but only family socioeconomic status increases volunteering over the life course.