The present research demonstrates intergenerational influences on collective action participation, whereby parents’ past and current participation in collective action (descriptive family norms) shape their children’s participation in conventional and radical collective action via injunctive family norms (perception that parents value such participation). Two unique data sets were used: dyads of activist parents and their adult children (Study 1, N = 100 dyads) and student activists who participated in a yearlong, three-wave longitudinal study (Study 2, Ns wave 1 = 1,221, Wave 2 = 960, and Wave 3 = 917). Parents’ past and current participation directly and indirectly predicted children’s protest participation in Study 1, while Study 2 showed a similar pattern longitudinally: Perceptions of parents’ participation (descriptive family norm) and approval (injunctive family norm) predicted change in collective action participation over time. Together, results highlight family environment as a critical setting for the intergenerational transmission of protest.

A 40 años del golpe militar en Chile y a más de 20 años de post-dictadura, una preocupación de los ámbitos académico y político son las formas en que este pasado reciente es recordado por distintas generaciones. Qué y cómo se recuerda este pasado son interrogantes planteadas por el estudio. Con una muestra intencionada que relevó la posición generacional de 25 participantes, se realizó un estudio cualitativo con relatos de vida. Los participantes de distintas regiones del país se diferenciaron además según género, posición ideológica, experiencia de represión política y nivel socioeconómico. Por medio de la articulación de 2 lógicas analíticas (singular y transversal), los resultados permiten trazar ciertas particularidades generacionales respecto de los contenidos de sus historias, especialmente en cuanto tramas características e intrigas articuladoras. Se conformarían generaciones discursivas marcadas por devenires socio-políticos en los que se han desenvuelto biográficamente y donde el hecho de haber vivido directamente los eventos no representa el único referente para desplegar una historia. La posición ideológica y la cercanía con la represión política son también referentes que determinan particularidades en los contenidos generacionales.Palabras clave: memoria, dictadura, Chile, generaciones, relatos de vida Forty years after the military coup and after over 20 years of post-dictatorship in Chile, the ways in which this recent past is remembered by different generations are a point of concern in the academic and political fields. What is remembered and how are questions raised by the study. With a purposive sample that highlighted the generational position of 25 participants, a qualitative study was conducted using life stories. The participants, from different regions of Chile, also differed in terms of gender, ideological position, political repression experience, and socioeconomic status. Through the articulation of 2 analytical logics (singular and cross-sectional), the results reveal certain generational particularities in the contents of their stories, especially with regard to their characteristic plots and articulating storylines. Based on these findings, different discursive generations can be identified, which are marked by the socio-political contexts which they have experienced biographically, and for which having experienced the events directly is not the only reference point to construct a story. Ideological position and proximity to political repression experience are also salient elements that determine certain generational contents.Keywords: memory, dictatorship, Chile, generations, life stories Copyright 2013 by Psykhe ISSN 0717-0297 www.psykhe.cl PSYKHE 2013 Marcela Cornejo, Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; María José Reyes, Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile; María Angélica Cruz, Instituto de Sociología, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile; Nicolás Villarroel, Anastassia Vivanco, Enzo Cáceres y Carolina R...

In this study, we examined the intergenerational transmission of collective action from parents to children. Using a mixed‐method approach combining quantitative and qualitative analysis, we analysed data from 100 dyads of activist parents in Chile (involved in the mobilizations against the dictatorship during the 1980s) and their adult children (N = 200). The quantitative analysis addressed the role of conversations about politics in the family. The results provided evidence of a direct association between those conversations and the frequency of participation in conventional and radical actions by the children, and an indirect association via children’s knowledge about parental involvement in past social movements. The qualitative phase, which used interviews and thematic analysis on a subsample of 24 dyads (N = 48), confirmed the role of political conversations, but also revealed the influence of other factors such as cultural consumption and joint political participation. This phase allowed the identification of factors that facilitate or hinder family transmission. Overall, the study highlights the relevance of family as a critical site of socialization that enables the intergenerational transmission of protest.

The current memory struggles about the Chilean dictatorship makes it increasingly relevant to hear a diverse range of voices on the subject. One way of addressing this is to study autobiographical narratives, in which people construct a character to present themselves as the protagonists of a story by taking multiple positions regarding what is remembered. This article presents a study that analyzed the life stories of Chilean people (diverse in their generations, cities, experiences of political repression, political orientations and socio-economic levels) and that distinguished between the positions that they take when presenting themselves as the protagonists of an autobiographical story about the Chilean dictatorship. The results point to salient and recurrent positions that allow people to earn the right to be considered part of the social history of the dictatorship, that involve different definitions regarding those responsible and the victims of what happened, and that unveil a strong family and filial logic of remembering.

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