AHC interview with Gerda Lederer.

Digital recordingDecember 12, 2012Gerda Lederer, née Heim was born on April 9, 1926 in Vienna. She went to high school in Vienna until the family left the city in September of 1938. Gerda, her parents and her sister moved to Paris and lived there nearly one year before they got their immigration visas for the United States. Gerda graduated from NYU and became a teacher; at the age of 61 she graduated again in psychology.Austrian Heritage Collectio

The Socialisation of Hierarchic Self-Interest?Value Socialization in the Family

The article reports research on family socialization of dominance values among adolescents. Dominance values were studied as expressed in Hierarchic Self-Interest (HSI), a value pattern that is typical for highly competitive market-oriented societies and has negative behavioural consequences. In analyzing socialization, the study concentrates on authoritarian and achievement-focused parenting, as well as structural and ideological predictors thereof. The relevance of HSI for attitudes and behaviours is studied by considering xenophobia and delinquency as its consequences. Using panel data of 443 families (mothers, fathers, and adolescent offspring) from Berlin (Germany), a structural equation model is estimated. Results show that adolescent HSI can be traced back to social-structural variables and parenting modes, but also develops through intergenerational value transmission. It has assumed negative consequences