Detailed Information on Publication Record
2001
Value Change and Demographic Behaviour in the Czech Republic
RABUŠIC, LadislavBasic information
Original name
Value Change and Demographic Behaviour in the Czech Republic
Authors
Edition
Czech Sociological Review, Prague, Institute of Sociology, 2001, 1210-3861
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
50000 5. Social Sciences
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14230/01:00004319
Organization unit
Faculty of Social Studies
Keywords in English
second demographic transition; value change; social change; cohorts;
Změněno: 18/7/2001 16:58, prof. PhDr. Ladislav Rabušic, CSc.
Abstract
V originále
Deep structural changes witnessed in the Czech republic in the past decade, that is establishment of a democratic political regime and market economy, and transformation of the social security system, could not have steered clear of everyday life and behavioural patterns of Czech population. One of the areas that have been profoundly affected is demographic behaviour. Marriage and fertility rates in particular have decreased to an unprecedented level. The main thesis of this paper is that the demographic changes in the Czech republic result from a condensed progress of the second demographic transition which was triggered off by a value change in young age cohorts born in the 1970s and early 1980s. New value orientations of these cohorts, which were latently present already before the political change, manifested themselves fully in the free environment of the new democratic society. The paper will present evidence of the value changes by utilising data from a comparative sociological research titled The European Values Study which was carried out in Europe in 1990/91 and in 1999. It is argued that the coincidence of value and demographic changes can hardly be regarded as accidental.
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