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Youth in a Changing Karelia: A Comparative Study of Everyday Life, Future Orientations, and Political Culture of Youth in North-West Russia and Eastern Finland. Ed. Vesa Puuronen, Pentti Sinisalo, Irina Miljukova, and Larissa Shvets Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2000. viii, 256 pp. Appendix...
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Volume 60, Issue 4, p. 871-872
ISSN: 2325-7784
Book ReviewThe Testimony of Lives: Narrative and Memory in Post‐Soviet Latvia.By Vieda Skultans. New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xxi+217. $75.00 (cloth); $24.99 (paper)
In: The American journal of sociology, Volume 104, Issue 3, p. 931-932
ISSN: 1537-5390
Formation of Young People' s Orientation towards Work
In: Acta sociologica: journal of the Scandinavian Sociological Association, Volume 22, Issue 4, p. 345-359
ISSN: 1502-3869
This article considers the problem of the formation of young people's value orientations towards the main spheres of life activities. Every sphere of life has objectively, independently of a person's intentions, some im portance in an individual's life in any society. Work is evaluated among other spheres of activity by members of society on the ground of its objective significance in the way of life peculiar to the society concerned. To measure the orientation towards work most broadly is to investigate the evaluation of work in correlation with other spheres of life activities. This concept has been applied in this article presenting the results of an empirical research carried out among young people in the Estonian SSR. The author used data from nine empirical surveys covering more than 14 000 respondents. The analysis shows that getting familiar with work in the practical process of production is most important in moulding an orientation towards work. The factoral analysis reveals the role work plays in a broader orientation towards social activity in all the main stages of a young person's self-determination. This orientation towards social activity, however, can be regarded as a synthetic framework in which an even broader sphere of social values participates.
Migration in the former Soviet Union
In: http://mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00050245-7
Mikk Titma ; Nancy B. Tuma ; Zsfassung in dt. und engl. Sprache ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- 4 Z 68.247-1992,16/28
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˜Dieœ soziale Entwicklung der Unionsrepubliken der UdSSR
In: http://mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00052619-8
Mikk Titma ; Ju. Ginter ; Zsfassung in engl. Sprache ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- 4 Z 68.247-1987,26/27
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TSENNOSTI, VLIYAYUSHCHIE NA VYBOR PROFESSII
In: Voprosy filosofii: naučno-teoretičeskij žurnal, Volume 27, Issue 4, p. 52-61
ISSN: 0042-8744
Prediction of Success in Post-Communist Societies: Evidence from Latvia and Estonia
In: Society and economy: journal of the Corvinus University of Budapest, Volume 24, Issue 3, p. 297-331
ISSN: 1588-970X
Prediction of succes in post-communist societies: Evidence from Latvia and Estonia
In: Society and economy: journal of the Corvinus University of Budapest, Volume 24, Issue 3, p. 297-331
ISSN: 1588-9726
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Support for New Political Institutions in Estonia: The Effects of Nationality, Citizenship, and Material Well-Being
In: Problems of post-communism, Volume 45, Issue 5, p. 37-47
ISSN: 1557-783X
Support for new political institutions in Estonia: the effects of nationality, citizenship, and material well-being
In: Problems of post-communism, Volume 45, p. 37-47
ISSN: 1075-8216
Examines institutional legitimacy as linked to democratic performance and economic success.