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Informal Support Networks in a Changing Society - are Family-Based Networks Being 'Crowded out'?

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Kasearu, Kairi
Kutsar, Dagmar

Abstract

"Using data from two nationally representative surveys (Estonian Living Conditions survey 1994, n=4,455; Estonian Social Survey 2004, n=8,906), we assess whether informal support networks have changed during the ten year period in Estonia. We hypothesize that during this period due to the establis... view more

"Using data from two nationally representative surveys (Estonian Living Conditions survey 1994, n=4,455; Estonian Social Survey 2004, n=8,906), we assess whether informal support networks have changed during the ten year period in Estonia. We hypothesize that during this period due to the establishment of a new welfare system and an overall increase in living standards, on one hand, and diversification of family forms and increased geographic mobility of the population on the other, family support networks have lost their functionality. Our findings show that informal support has decreased between relatives, while mutual helping activities with non-relatives – neighbours, colleagues and friends – have remained almost at the same level. We suggest that the developments in the Estonian society are ‘crowding out’ the instrumental support exchange in the kinship system and empowering social networking with nonrelatives." (author's abstract)... view less

Keywords
social network; welfare state; social capital; family structure; diversification; mobility; kinship; social relations; social support; post-communist society; transition; social change; structural change; Estonia

Classification
Macrosociology, Analysis of Whole Societies
Family Sociology, Sociology of Sexual Behavior

Document language
English

Publication Year
2010

Page/Pages
p. 56-73

Journal
Studies of Transition States and Societies, 2 (2010) 1

ISSN
1736-8758

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications


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