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Structural Causes of the Decline in the Number of Marriages in the Czech Society

KATRŇÁK, Tomáš

Basic information

Original name

Structural Causes of the Decline in the Number of Marriages in the Czech Society

Authors

KATRŇÁK, Tomáš (203 Czech Republic, guarantor)

Edition

New Currents: East European Arts, Politics & Humanities, Michigan, University of Michigan, 2002

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/00216224:14230/02:00006883

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Keywords in English

marriage market; czech society; nuptuality

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 31/12/2006 23:18, prof. PhDr. Tomáš Katrňák, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Since 1989 Czech society has undergone substantial demographic changes. Marriage rate has been falling rapidly. This paper deals with the question why this has happened. Some demographers and sociologists have suggested that young people are only postponing marriage because Czech society is currently going through a transitional period. But the expected increase in the number of marriages concluded by single people has not happened - not even ten years after the Velvet revolution. This paper focuses on the changes in the mating habits of the Czech population and tries to explain the social phenomenon of the growth in the number of single people from the structural and social causes which underline this behaviour on the part of young people.

Links

LN00A023, research and development project
Name: Centrum výzkumu utváření osobnosti v etnických a sociálních kontextech
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Centre for the research of the formation of personality in ethnical and social contexts