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Author
Artsiomenka Alena (Belarusian State University)
Title
The Transformation of Family Values in Belarus: Social and Demographic Factors
Source
Eastern Review, 2019, vol. 8, s. 87-99, tab., bibliogr. 10 poz.
Keyword
Wartość społeczna, Rodzina, Małżeństwo, Dzieci, Płeć
Social value, Family, Marriage, Children, Gender
Note
summ.
Country
Białoruś
Belarus
Abstract
The article is devoted to the social and demographic factors of family values transformation in Belarus. It aims to find out to what extent age, educational level, and place of residence influence the dynamics of changing family values. Based on the data of the European Value Survey in Belarus in 2000, 2008 and 2017, the tendencies of the transformation of attitudes towards family, marriage, children, and women combining family and profession roles, are analysed. It is concluded that changes in family values in the Eastern European region and Belarus are multidirectional. On the one hand, the significance of the family and marriage is growing. On the other - the necessity to combine the professional and family roles of women is getting more common. The paper evaluates how these general trends are manifested in different social groups; broken down by age, education level and place of inhabitance. The analysis allows one to conclude that there are universal trends like the importance of family as it is. However, some trends like pronatalist attitudes have specificity for different groups. The reasons for family values transformation include the position on the labour market, the perspective of professional self-realisation, and income growth. A lack of such a perspective among women with secondary education causes them to be more focused on family and children. Both urbanisation and the growth of a young generation with a high educational level can contribute to the decrease of pronatalist attitudes and an increase in the idea of women combining family and professional roles in the future. (original abstract)
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ISSN
1427-9657
Language
eng
URI / DOI
https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9657.08.02
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