scholarly journals Regional characteristics of transition to adulthood in Europe from socio-demographic perspective

2010 ◽  
pp. 369-375
Author(s):  
Suzana Ignjatovic
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Status Change ◽  
Family Transition ◽  
Final Segment ◽  
Domains Of Life ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
The Eu

The paper provides a comparative overview of models of transition to adulthood in European countries. Transition to adulthood is defined as a process of multifold status change in key domains of life. Indicators of transition include education, professional, family and residential markers. Individual transition to adulthood is influenced by external determinants such as welfare system, family relations, housing conditions, and value orientations (notably in family transition). Current research in this field provides evidence for provisionary mapping of transitional paths. A very common classification differentiates between Nordic, West European and South European types of transition to adulthood. There is also an alternative categorization, based on geographic, social and political dimensions. The model comprises member states of the EU, ex-communist countries, and Balkan countries. In the final segment of the paper, transition to adulthood in Serbia is discussed in more detail. We compare indicators of transition to adulthood, and focus on both diverging and converging trends in transition to adulthood in Serbia and the EU. .

The UK as victim and hero in the Sun’s coverage of the Brexit ‘humiliation’

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 645-662
Author(s):  
Franco Zappettini
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Tabloid Journalism ◽  
Tabloid Press ◽  
The Eu

This paper discusses how emotions were mobilised by the British tabloid press as discursive strategies of persuasion during the public debate on the implementation of Brexit. Using the case study of the Suns coverage of the alleged UKs humiliation at the Salzburg meeting (2018) during the Brexit negotiations, the analysis addresses the questions of how and through which linguistic means actors and events were framed discursively in such an article. The findings suggest that The Sun elicited emotions of fear, frustration, pride, and freedom to frame Brexit along a long-established narrative of domination and national heroism. The discourse was also sustained by a discursive prosody in keeping with a satirical genre and a populist register that have often characterised the British tabloid press. In particular the linguistic analysis has shown how antagonistic representations of the UK and the EU were driven by an allegory of incompetent gangsterism and morally justified resistance. Emotionalisation in the article was thus aimed both at ridiculing the EU and at representing it as a criminal organisation. Such framing was instrumental in pushing the newspaper agenda as much as in legitimising and institutionalising harder forms of Brexit with the tabloids readership. Approaching journalist discourse at the intersection of affective, stylistic, and political dimensions of communication, this paper extends the body of literature on the instrumental use of emotive arguments and populist narratives and on the wider historical role of tabloid journalism in representing political relations. between the UK and the EU.

scholarly journals Different families, same love: Challenges of the 2008

Temida ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-68
Author(s):  
Zorica Mrsevic
Keyword(s):  
Family Relations ◽  
Sex Partners ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Balkan Region ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Eu

The year 2008 by all means will be remembered by several events, which contributed to significant progress in the domain of legal recognition of various aspects of same sex communities. There were also several initiatives contributing to making the political will necessary for legal changes. The most visible one probably was the May recognition of same sex marriage by the Supreme Court of California, which was valid only 5 months before it was cancelled by the referendum held in November 2008. Since this American state has 38 million inhabitants, more than the whole Balkan region, the event was visible by the whole world. The paper provides further analysis of mostly European events, e.g. decisions of European courts in Strasbourg and Luxembourg, political interventions by the EU Parliament Intercrop, releases of the ILGA-Europe, gay pride marches, other public activities, e.g. exhibition in the EU Parliament regarding the International Day of Human Rights, adoption of various documents relevant for the EU member states and permanent changes in internal legal provisions of the member states. The UN Declaration against discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation and gender identity concluded the year. The paper also comprises analysis of a few typical cases of implementation of family relations among same sex partners.

scholarly journals Recent problems in research on transition to adulthood: Country focus Serbia

Stanovnistvo ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzana Ignjatovic
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Family Transition ◽  
Financial Status ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Status Transition ◽  
Prolonged Adolescence ◽  
Social Turmoil ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Type Of Transition

The paper explores theoretical and methodological aspects of transition to adulthood. The concept is discussed within the framework of life course paradigm. The concept of transition to adulthood is operationalized as four dimensions: family transition, professional (career) transition, financial status transition and housing transition. We discuss in detail the process of becoming an adult in Serbian society. The thesis of specific type of transition to adulthood, named prolonged adolescence, has been fully examined. The analysis is based on data collected in a survey (2003) of young people aged 17-35. In the paper we focus on the sub sample of respondents aged 34-35 being a post-transitional cohort. The 34-35 cohort trajectory to adulthood is explored as an indicator of general trend in transition to adulthood in a period of radical social turmoil. .

scholarly journals RUSSIAN FEDERALISM AND TATARSTAN’S ETHNIC PEACE

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Barker
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
Religious Aspects ◽  
Crises Management

This article focuses on cooperation between Muslims and Christians inTatarstan and illustrates how federal arrangements operate to diffuse ethnopolitical crises. Management of ethnic and national conflicts has importance within Russia and its immediate neighbourhood as well as globally. Using news reports, secondary sources, and interviews from fieldwork in Russia, the article identifies ways in which the two communities are working together to ensure stability and peace in the region. It examines the religious aspects of cooperation, as well as economic and political dimensions of cooperation. The article identifies lessons for the rest of Russia, particularly Chechnya as well as the central Asian states formerly part of the Soviet Union. Even though federalism has got negative publicity in former communist countries, particularly following the collapse of communism, the case of Tatarstan suggests ways through which federal institutions enable cooperation between Russians and Tatars. In addition, the article considers recent pitfalls the two sides have had to overcome and broader implications for federalism and reconciliation studies in general.

scholarly journals Backwardness of Central and Eastern Europe as a Heritage of the Soviet Period

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (338) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Sandris Ancans
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
European Region ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Planned Economy ◽  
Command Economy ◽  
Centrally Planned Economy ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThe economy of Latvia lags behind economically developed nations approximately fourfold in terms of labour productivity in the tradable sector, which is the key constituent of a modern economy, thereby affecting future sustainable development in the entire country, including the rural areas. The economic backwardness is characteristic of the entire Central and Eastern Europe. This is the heritage of a communist regime that lasted for about half a century and the economic system termed a (centrally) planned economy or a command economy. However, such a term for the communist-period economy is not correct, as it does not represent the purpose it was created for. Accordingly, the paper aims to assess the effect of the communism period on the economic backwardness of the Central and Eastern European region of the EU. A planned economy that existed in all communist countries, with the exception of Yugoslavia, was not introduced to contribute to prosperity. It was intended for confrontation or even warfare by the communist countries under the guidance of the USSR against other countries where no communism regime existed, mostly Western world nations with their market economies. For this reason, it is not correct to term it a (centrally) planned economy or a command economy; the right term is a mobilised (war) economy. An extrapolation of a geometric progression for GDP revealed that during the half a century, Latvia as part of the USSR was forced to spend on confrontation with the West not less than EUR 17 bln. (2011 prices) or approximately one gross domestic product of 2011. The research aim of the paper is to assess the effect of the communism period on the economic backwardness of the Central and Eastern European region of the EU.

Exploring European Social Policy. By Robert R. Geyer. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2000. 272p. $50.00 cloth, $14.99 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 256-257
Author(s):  
William Walters
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Short History ◽  
European Social Policy ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Social Europe

Social scientific interest in "social Europe" pales in compar- ison with the attention that has been directed toward the economic and political dimensions of the European Union (EU). This is perhaps hardly surprising; for much of its relatively short history, the system that is today the EU has been almost exclusively economic in its focus. Only since the 1980s has the project of European integration acquired a significant social dimension. Given this imbalance, Robert Geyer provides a welcome and timely addition to the litera- ture.

scholarly journals How opportunity costs change the view on the viability of farms? Empirical evidence from the EU

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (No. 2) ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Jindřich Špička ◽  
Petr Dereník
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
High Variability ◽  
Economic Viability ◽  
Opportunity Costs ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Heat Map ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
The Eu

The post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy targets at supporting small and medium-sized farms. Capping and redistribution of direct payments would have a direct impact on the economic viability of farms. Calculation of economic income is a reasonable way how to calculate the economic viability of firms. However, accounting profit has been preferred for its estimation so far. The article aims to compare the income from accounting and economic point of view and reveal how much the results differ across the EU. The literature review, an empirical analysis based on Farm Accountancy Data Network (2016–2018), and a clustered heat map were applied. The results provide clear evidence of high variability of opportunity costs when calculating the economic viability in the EU, especially between countries with small intensive farms and some post-communist countries where larger farms dominate.

scholarly journals Job Characteristics and Life Satisfaction in the EU: a Domains-of-Life Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 1069-1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Viñas-Bardolet ◽  
Monica Guillen-Royo ◽  
Joan Torrent-Sellens
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Domains Of Life ◽  
A Domains ◽  
The Eu

Romania's Foreign Trade and of Other Former Communist Countries in 2003-2012

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
Marian Zaharia ◽  
Aniela Balacescu ◽  
Radu Serban Zaharia
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Significant Decline ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Comparative Statistical Analysis ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

During 2003-2012, economies of most EU countries, have gone through periods of growth and decline, the most significant decline being recorded in 2009, due to strong economic crisis which has affect the EU and not only. The main purpose of this article is to assess the impact that the economic crisis has had on each of the five former communist countries analyzed, namely Romania, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria. This study is a comparative statistical analysis of evolutions of the volumes of exports and imports both within EU and outside. It also, are analyzed their trade balances evolutions, and were identified, for three of them, among which Romania, valid models of evolution for the period under review.

Relationship between the motivational and demand sphere of students during the quarantine period and the field of perception of the concepts “Coronavirus”, “Quarantine” and “Self-Isolation” (based on research materials of PNRPU masters)

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
M.K. Duvanskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Relations ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Value Assessment ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
Spiritual Satisfaction ◽  
Life Education ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The article explores the peculiarities of the relationship of motivational and demand sphere with the field of perception of the concept of “coronavirus”, “quarantine”, “self-isolation” in modern society. Their interrelations influence both the formation of a holistic personality and the formation of public opinion. The study is based on the notion that life values are a set of different inherently social attitudes, which under the influence of external social forms of interaction and intrapersonal characteristics are subject to constant modification, which is reflected in the system of perception, as the world as a whole, and in particular at the conceptual, sense-making level. Thus, studying the peculiarities of the relationship of personal value orientations with the field of perception of a particular concept, we can build a dynamic scheme of mutually influential vectors of values, orientations, life priorities, taking into account the specific conceptual perception of the concept under study. The study revealed that the respondents are more characterized by the prevalence of focus on the material situation, spiritual satisfaction, as well as achievement and self-development. These values are manifested in the spheres of professional life, education and family relations. In the field of perception of the highlighted concepts there is a number of significant differences, so the concept of “coronavirus” has a negative value assessment while high subjective importance in the individual personal plan for the person. The concepts of “self-isolation” and “quarantine” are perceived positively in terms of value, while in the subjective, personal plan they carry a negative dynamic for the individual. Thus, the study confirmed that depending on the structure of basic needs, value priorities, which the person holds, we can assume what attitude he will have to the studied concepts, what meaning he will fill them.

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