The process generally referred to as ‘the transition’ implied a complex set of social changes in Central and Eastern European countries (CEE). The research question addressed is the following: do the current types of social networks differ from those in the 1980s? We try to answer it by analyzing and comparing the data on social support networks in 1987 and 2002. The data are interpreted in the context of the transition that was happening in Slovenia at the time.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29739869
The book addresses the problem of poverty and social exclusion of lderly in Slovenia. It presents theoretical approaches to social exclusion, as well as quantitative data on social exclusion of elderly in individual dimensions (health, contacts, income and material deprivation, housing). The main part of the book are the results of a qualitative survey, where coping strategies of elderly are presented. In conclusion also policy recomendations are given.
COBISS.SI-ID: 252141056
The paper focuses on the nonprofit sector in Slovenia and its role in the Slovene welfare system based on the data collected in a survey on a representative sample of nonprofit organisations in Slovenia in 1996 and 2006. The aim is to understand the position of the nonprofit sector in the Slovene welfare system through a comparative analysis of the sector characteristics with other post-socialist as well as other European countries.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29541981
The article deals with the psychological ambivalence in intergenerational relations within the context of ths care for the elderly. Based on the research the text exposes the gendered nature of caring for the elderly 'at home' and the caregiver’s ambivalent feelings. The focus is on the social and emotional complexity in intimate intergenerational caring in family life. At the end the paper focuses on the specific tasks of care giving that carers may find aversive, disgusting or frightening and which may evoke mixed emotions and ambivalent experience from the 'child carers'.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30045789
The paper discusses the ways and the extent to which home ownership in post-socialist societies represents a potential to serve as an additional source of welfare in old age. By using data from EQLS, a cross-national comparative analyisis is performed, examining selected characteristics of owner occupied housing and of households. When conmpared to West-European countires, in post-socialist countries much higher limitations were found due to a relatively high incidence of unfit housing and of economic hardships among households.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29405789