Publication details
Mezigenerační solidarita ve stárnoucí společnosti
| Title in English | Intergenerational solidarity in ageing society |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociální studia |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | ageing; active ageing; Czech Republic; family values; felt obligation; intergenerational solidarity; parent child relations |
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| Description | This paper focuses on the issue of intergenerational solidarity in the contemporary Czech society from the perspective of values and norms. It concentrates on normative solidarity in the parent adult child relationship, i.e. on mutual expectations of responsibility and on the norms determining the importance of family values. Due to population ageing the important question whether there is agreement among generations on the degree and existence of intergenerational obligations turns up, mainly whether seniors expectations are not considerably different from the conception of the youngest generation. The factors affecting the degree of intergenerational solidarity are being searched for. The search is based on a data analysis from European Value Study (EVS) which surveyed values in 1991, 1999 and 2008. Due to the longitudinal nature of the data not only attitudes of seniors and the youngest generations are compared but also their change in the course of time. Lastly the position of the Czech Republic among other European countries is looked into. |
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