Faculty Sponsor: Robert Kabacoff
Live Poster Session: https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/99037525486
Abstract: This comparison will focus on the effects that sisters may or may not have on their brothers and whether or not having sisters causes a man to be more politically conservative or liberal once they reach adulthood, with specific attention paid to full sisters. Siblings’ impacts on one another is an incredibly important determinant of how people behave as adults and the political choices they make. The familial unit, especially siblings, affect people’s socialization and thus their political views (C. Anthony Broh, 1979). It has been found that men who have sisters are often more politically conservative because sisters tend to fill “womanly” roles or chores in the household and the men in these households uphold those sorts of values in the future (Pew Research Center, 2013). Men who grow up with only sisters tend to be significantly more conservative when it comes to gender roles and identify as Republicans more often than not (Healey, 2013). However, in a study done in the British Journal of Political Science by R. Urbatsch, it was found that men whose immediate older sibling is a sister are more likely to vote for and align with woman centric issues and those whose older sibling is a man are more likely to vote with the “male preference” in mind. Clearly, the research done on sibling influence does not yield uniform results. However, the conclusion that siblings affect one another’s political socialization in a myriad of different ways is not up for debate (Eckstein, K., Šerek, J., & Noack, P., 2018).
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