Patterns of Family Life Courses in Europe – between Standardisation and Diversity. A Cross-national Comparison of Family Trajectories and Life Course Norms in European Countries

0439439 - SOÚ 2015 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Hofäcker, D. - Chaloupková, Jana
Patterns of Family Life Courses in Europe – between Standardisation and Diversity. A Cross-national Comparison of Family Trajectories and Life Course Norms in European Countries.
Comparative Population Studies. Roč. 39, č. 3 (2014), s. 559-586. ISSN 1869-8980
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GAP404/11/0145; GA AV ČR(CZ) KJB700280802
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : cross-national comparison * European social survey * family trajectories
Subject RIV: AO - Sociology, Demography
http://www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS/article/view/163/187

Using data from ESS 2006 the paper investigates to what extent the family trajectories have changed across generations and how these developments correspond to changes in socially established norms about family transitions. Our results show that corroborate the assumption of an increasing restandardisation of family lives. Even though family trajectories have become more turbulent, new stages such as unmarried cohabitation are turning into majority behaviour. The liberalisation in norms appears to precede changes in actual demographic behaviour, even though European countries differ in the degree and pace of these changes. degree and pace to which such normative and behavioural changes have yet taken place.
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