TRANSFORMATION OF MICRO-AND MACRO-WORLDS AT THE TIME OF POSTSOCIALISM
TRANSFORMATION OF MICRO-AND MACRO-WORLDS AT THE TIME OF POSTSOCIALISM

Author(s): Soňa Lutherová G.
Subject(s): Social history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Rural and urban sociology, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Sociology of Politics, Globalization
Published by: Ústav etnológie a sociálnej antropológie Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: Postsocialism; social change; Postsocialist transformation; Urban and rural environments;
Summary/Abstract: The recent period of over twenty years since the Velvet Revolution has seen, in the Central-European and specifically in the Slovak context, a rapid change of living conditions - socio-cultural, economic and material ones. This transformation had its specific forms not only when comparing the different postsocialist countries, but also across regions and social segments (Podoba 2007: 6). Social changes have occurred from the micro-level up to the macro-level. People in the role of actors and bearers of transformations, or vice versa, of their passive observers “driven” by external circumstances were more or less able to adapt themselves and their acts and strategies to the new living conditions. This contribution deals with the fundamental features of the social change defined by the period of postsocialism in the context of changes in the urban environment in Slovakia. The key issue of this chapter is the question in what way was the transformation of society reflected in the everyday lives of individuals.

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