Family and Social Change in Socialist and Post-Socialist Societies

Change and Continuity in Eastern Europe and East Asia
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-25221-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 793 g

Reihe: The Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspectives

In Family and Social Change in Socialist and Post-Socialist Societies, the authors address the social transformations of eight transitional societies in recent decades (Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, China and Vietnam). Each chapter discusses a different society and reveals their struggles in the reconstruction of the intimate and public spheres amid the post-Cold War period.

Making use of a semi-structured analytical framework, the respective chapters address the ambiguous relationship between familism and individualisation seen through change and continuity in demographic behaviour, family values, family solidarity, gender relations, state policy and marketisation. The volume also outlines the possibility of a modified second demographic transition theory as a correction of Western-based interpretations of current social trends.

Contributors include: Zsombor Rajkai, Yulia Gradskova, Lyudmyla Males, Tymur Sandrovych, Malgorzata Sikorska, Peter Gurán, Jarmila Filadelfiová, Miloš Debnár, Csaba Dupcsik, Olga Tóth, Borbála Kovács, Zhou Weihong, Liu Wenrong, Xue Yali, Nguyen Huu Minh, Chang Kyung-Sup.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rajkai, Zsombor

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction

1.A Theoretical Account of the Individual–Family–Population Nexus in Post-Socialist Transitions
CHANG Kyung-Sup

2. Family and Social Change in Russia
Yulia GRADSKOVA

3. Exploitation of the Intimate Sphere in Socialist and Post-Socialist Ukraine
Lyudmyla MALES and Tymur SANDROVYCH

4. Changes in the Area of Family Life in Poland
Malgorzata SIKORSKA

5. Contemporary Family in Slovakia: Demography, Values, Gender and Policy
Peter GURÁN, Jarmila FILADELFIOVÁ and Miloš DEBNÁR

6. Family Systems and Family Values in Twenty-First-Century Hungary
Csaba DUPCSIK and Olga TÓTH

7. Romanian Families: Changes and Continuities over Recent Decades
Borbála KOVÁCS

8. The Transition of Chinese Families over the Past Thirty Years (1978–2010)
ZHOU Weihong, XUE Yali and LIU Wenrong

9. Changes in Socio-Demographic Characteristics of the Vietnamese Family
NGUYEN Huu Minh

Conclusion

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zsombor Rajkai, Ph.D. (2008, 2010), is an Associate Professor in the College of International Relations at Ritsumeikan University (Japan). He specialises in two fields: Sino-Central-Asian historical relations, and the modernisation of non-Western societies.