Umíráme. Avšak dříve, než vymřeme, vykopeme si hrob

• Authors: Luboš Smrčka

Title variants

EN

Dying out while digging our own grave

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The fact that recent demographic data have been pointing to gradual but consistent dying out of Europe has become the key point of strong philosophical, political and other clashes in the last years. Most discussions focus especially on the issues related to the causes of this situation, thus rather omitting the real consequences on everyday lives of Europeans in the upcoming decades. Namely the economic and sociological impacts. The structure of population change in terms of nationality is the second important process in today’s Europe: The majority population comprising original nationalities on whose basis the state composition of Europe had been formed is gradually losing its dominance. Conversely, immigrants (particularly Muslims) and their children are gaining more and more influence on the structure of society. Various kinds of economic pressure are related to these processes, which in the future will inevitably grow into the shape of events completely changing the society and its economic system. I assume that in order to maintain its economic power, traditional European population will go through a process, during which some usual democratic principles and traditions will be put aside, for example the attitude towards the right to vote will change. That is because despite many complications, traditional European society will behave quite economically by keeping its political power as a guarantee of its economic power, and particularly as a guarantee that the standards of living and thus the possibility of satisfying one’s needs – manifesting itself through life style, among other things – will be preserved.

Keywords

EN

demography; democracy; European society; Islam; Christian tradition; birth rate; total fertility rate

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY
• OTHER_SOCIAL_SCIENCES: OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše společnost (Our Society)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 31-39

Contributors

author

Luboš Smrčka

• CVVM, SOÚ AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic