Open AccessTransition to Adulthood: Leaving the Parental Home in the Last Soviet and the First Post-Soviet Generation
Author(s) -
Laura Daukšaitė
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
sociologija. mintis ir veiksmas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2335-8890
pISSN - 1392-3358
DOI - 10.15388/socmintvei.2019.1.11
Subject(s) - ideology , transition (genetics) , first generation , soviet union , globalization , life course approach , political science , power (physics) , state (computer science) , sociology , psychology , developmental psychology , demography , politics , law , population , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science , gene
The article presents a research on trajectories of leaving the parental home in the last Soviet and the first post-Soviet generations. It focuses on social transformation of the state during the transition from the Soviet to the post-Soviet and its impact on the life-course of these generations. In our study, we applied a dyadic approach and conducted semi-structured interviews with women of the last Soviet generation (born in 1962–1972) and their children (born in 1992–2002), who represent the first post-Soviet generation. Early changes in and the differentiation of the timetable of transition to adulthood of the last Soviet generation indicated a declining effect of ideologically supported social structures on the life-course of young adults and the growing power of individual decision to leave the parental home or stay within. The rapidly increasing globalization and a transformed economy shaped a new structural environment for the coming of age for the first post-Soviet generation; therefore, we can interpret the further pluralization, de-standardization, and differentiation of the timetable of the transition to adulthood of this generation as a reaction of young people to the emerging risks and insecurities.