Family and social change in socialist and post-socialist societies : change and continuity in Eastern Europe and East Asia

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 Guran, Jarmila Filadelfiova, Milos Debnar, Csaba Dupcsik, Olga Toth, Borbala Kovacs, Zhou Weihong, Liu Wenrong, Xue Yali, Nguyen Huu Minh, Chang Kyung-Sup.

Preface ... vii Acknowledgements ... x List of Figures ... xi List of Tables ... xiv List of Contributors ... xviii Introduction ... 1 Zsombor Rajkai 1 A Theoretical Account of the Individual-Family-Population Nexus in Post-Socialist Transitions ... 19 Chang Kyung-Sup 2 Family and Social Change in Russia ... 36 Yulia Gradskova 3 Exploitation of the Intimate Sphere in Socialist and Post-Socialist Ukraine ... 83 Lyudmyla Males and Tymur Sandrovych 4 Changes in the Area of Family Life in Poland ... 122 Malgorzata Sikorska 5 Contemporary Family in Slovakia Demography, Values, Gender and Policy ... 164 Peter Guran, Jarmila Filadelfiova and Milos Debnar 6 Family Systems and Family Values in Twenty-First-Century Hungary ... 210 Csaba Dupcsik and Olga Toth 7 Romanian Families Changes and Continuities over Recent Decades ... 250 Borbala Kovacs 8 The Transition of Chinese Families over the Past Thirty Years (1978-2010) ... 300 Zhou Weihong, Xue Yali and Liu Wenrong 9 Changes in Socio-Demographic Characteristics of the Vietnamese Family ... 359 Nguyen Huu Minh Conclusion ... 413 Zsombor Rajkai Index ... 419