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Life course as an identity component of the last Soviet generation in Lithuania
Type of publication
Kitos knygos dalis / Part of other book (Y7)
Type of document
type::text::book::book part
Title
Life course as an identity component of the last Soviet generation in Lithuania
Publisher
London : Routledge, 2022.
Date Issued
Date Issued | Start Page | End Page |
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2022 | 64 | 85 |
Is part of
Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania – generational experiences
Series/Report no.
Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
Description
Chapter 5
Field of Science
Abstract
This chapter addresses the ways in which certain social and demographic processes describe the last Lithuanian Soviet generation (born in the late 1960s and 1970s). The primary focus is directed to the analysis of the demographic changes that took place in the life course of this generation during the period of transition to adulthood. It is essential to identify how this period of life was structured after the collapse of the Soviet system and under changing social, economic and ideological conditions, as well as with the development of a new political, social and economic order in the 1990s. The following events of the transitional phase are analysed here: leaving the parental home; completing education, starting work for the first time; first partnerships; and giving birth to the first child. The aim is to reveal the ways in which these specifically changing experiences during the transition to adulthood reflect distinctive formation features of the last Soviet generation and how these experiences delimit this generation from both previous and subsequent generations. The chapter also surveys the ways these experiences reflect transformational processes of the life course in terms of standardisation/de-standardisation and institutionalisation/de-institutionalisation, which took place in the 1990s. The chapter draws on the secondary analysis of demographic data. This chapter draws on the demographic data from the Generations and Gender Survey (Kart ir lyči tyrimas) conducted in 2006–2009 in Lithuania, the data on the period between 1990 and 2011 gained from the Department of Statistics of Lithuania (Statistics Lithuania) and the materials of the survey conducted under the project The Last Soviet Generation in the Changing Contexts of Modernity (Paskutinioji sovietmečio karta kintančios modernybės kontekstuose).
ISBN (of the container)
9780367902025
9781003023050
WOS
000892048200005
eLABa
116548162
Coverage Spatial
Jungtinė Karalystė / United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GB)
Language
Anglų / English (en)
Bibliographic Details
40
Project(s)
The Last Soviet Generation in the Changing Contexts of Modernity