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The Condition Of Contemporary Family Caught Up In The Context Of Society Of Risk
The Condition Of Contemporary Family Caught Up In The Context Of Society Of Risk

Author(s): Maja Piotrowska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Substance abuse and addiction, Family and social welfare
Published by: Społeczna Akademia Nauk
Keywords: family risk; hazard risk generating family

Summary/Abstract: Many scientists are consistent as to the fact that Polish society early twenty-first century is a society of risk in almost all areas of life. The risk areas relate primarily to personal safety and the public, falling levels of growth, stratification in different spheres of life. This risk is compounded differently understood and subject to different terms related to the implementation of freedom and liberalism, tolerance and pluralism, resourcefulness and market economy. In such a society, developing a family becomes a family risk. As a direct threat generating family risk could include: poverty, homelessness, unemployment, separation as a result of emigration, the liberalization of views in the field of moral - ethical manifested in the increase in the number of divorces and single-parent families and the ruthless market economy.

  • Issue Year: 3/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 33-43
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English
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