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WHEN SHOULD WE BECOME PARENTS? (Mikor vallaljunk gyereket?)

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Paksi V., Szalma I.
Szociologiai Szemle (Sociological Review)
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2009
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vol. 19
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issue 3
92-115
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This paper analyzes the questions related to the timing of life events - particularly certain phases of becoming adults - in the third wave of European Social Survey. It focuses on the first cohabitation and marriage as well as the timing and the ideal age of becoming parents. Nowadays, the timing of the first childbearing has shified to older ages all over Europe; therefore, the authors consider it important to examine whether the attitudes toward the ideal age of childbearing have adjusted to this trend. First of all, the authors analyze attitude type questions, they focus on when people think it is ideal, too late or too early to become a mother or a father. They examine the ideal time of childbearing not only from age aspect but also regarding when it would be ideal compared to other life events of becoming adults (cohabitation, marriage) in each of the countries. The authors also found out whether in Europe the first childbearing is actually considered part of the process of becoming adults or not. They paid special attention to the Hungarian data and examined how the educational level, the age groups, the type of residence, the religion and the gender variables influence the attitudes towards age norms of childbearing in Hungary.
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AGE IDENTITY (Vekova identita)

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Sykorova D.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2009
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vol. 41
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issue 2
149-167
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The article deals with age as a relevant component of an individual's identity. Its first part gives a brief survey of the theories and theoretical concepts of age identity that is followed by a presentation of outcomes of a qualitative study (GACR 403/06/1647) in its second part. The authoress writes about the subjectively accepted and objectively assigned age identity, personal identity in the process of ageing and the phenomenon of age denial: She shows how individuals relate their age to other components of identity, with what factors they 'condition' their own age identity, on the basis of what criteria and in what contexts they identify the others' age (and vice versa, what criteria and strategies are applied to them by the others), how they interpret age norms. The authoress also deals with the identity 'on the move', i.e. with the changes of relevance of age as a constituent of individual identity in the course of life career, the change of perspective on one's own and the others' age. In relation to this, she points out the strategies of identity maintaining, or the strategies by means of which individuals cope with ageing (the concept of themselves as younger, not-elderly, age distortion, taking over symbols of 'young' life style etc.). The authoress concludes that individuals reflect the individual differences in experiencing age, relativity of evaluation (of age, old age) in relation to both the object and the subject of evaluation and they 'rate' the individual features, abilities and skills above age itself. Nevertheless the importance of age in various contexts of individuals' lives and for their identity is undeniable.
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