Social Dynamics
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Parent-adolescent Communication, : Parents’ Monitoring and Witnessing Parent Drinking Influence on Adolescent Alcohol Use View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Ieva Saukuma
Despite the legal ban, alcohol consumption is widespread among Latvian adolescents and starts at very early age. In social sciences this phenomenon is analysed as a complex assessment of peer, educational services, parents, and environmental impact. The current study evaluates the impact of witnessing parent drinking, parent-adolescent communication, and parents monitoring on the start of adolescent alcohol use. By assessing these aspects of family socialization on adolescents alcohol use, we make a contribution to the conduct and family socialization studies in sociology, which serves as a contribution to the area of parent-adolescent communication. For the research, we used data obtained from quantitative three-year period longitudinal surveys, among 7th to 9th grade students from 50 schools in Latvia. Data from self-completed adolescent surveys were processed with regression analysis method to examine the relationship between witnessing parent drinking, parent-adolescent communication, and parents monitoring, and the odds of beginning of adolescent alcohol use. From these aspects of adolescent socialization in family, the most significant influence on the initiation of alcohol use among adolescents is for witnessing parent drinking. The discrepancy between the information provided by parent-adolescent communication, parents monitoring, and witnessing parent drinking does not prevent adolescents from alcohol use. Witnessing parent drinking is an aspect, the impact of which parents are unaware, but it should be highlighted to build more efficient adolescent-parent communication on the consequences of alcohol use.
The Dynamics of Family Organizations: Case-based Evidence from an Emerging Market View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Selin Gulden, Ozlem Er
The research interest on the dynamics of family firms (FFs) on innovation and performance has grown in the last decade. There are strong theoretical reasons stating that FFs are paradoxically more or less successful to handle the innovation in comparison with non-FFs. Even though FFs are seen as traditional organizations constrained with generational transition, emotional ties, and non-financial goals, they are amongst the most innovative firms in the world and have long-term orientation as their biggest stimulus to innovation. Family involvement in organization directly affects the development of resources unique to FF that leads to innovation and competitive advantage, but heterogeneity of FFs ability to achieve innovation is still poorly understood. This exploratory study focuses on the dynamics of family involvement in the organization with a qualitative approach of single case study as a part of an ongoing PhD. This case study, held with a representative strong innovator FF from an emerging context, reveals the heterogeneity of family involvement with positive factors such as dynamic decision-making process, gradual involvement of generations, and trust in professionals; also negative factors such as family being in constant leadership position, and aim for total ownership. In particular, conservatism, risk-aversion, and propensity for parsimony are no longer valid for FFs. Family’s high level of know-how through experience, holistic knowledge and distributed ability, long-term commitment to operating structures and stakeholders, entrepreneurial spirit, and design awareness are the essence of success for an innovative FF, in other words heterodoxies.
Featured From Agrapha to Aliartos - Maintaining Identity to a Completely New Place and Time
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Nikoletta Chondou
People come and go from different places to new ones in their own time. Despite all the difficulties that the emigrant population meets up with, memories of some “good old times” are always by the emigrants to support them in a unique way (mostly by warming their souls and hearts). People from Agrapha, a complex of several mostly isolated villages in the mainland of Greece (Evritania and Karditsa), during 1960, 1970 and even 1980 emigrated to other major cities such as Athens, Agrinio or Karditsa. Nevertheless, an amount of people during their migration to Athens settled down to Aliartos, as land was given to anyone who wanted to start a new life in the area at the time. Right after they settled to their new homes, they started to remember their everyday life back to Agrapha and tried to maintain it in their new home. As part of that population in this paper I seek matters of memory and identity in a new place, with the most valuable help from villagers, neighbors, and contributors of my settlement of Evritanes in Mazi one of the many villages surrounding Aliartos.
