Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Zsombor Rajkai -- Introduction / Zsombor Rajkai -- A Theoretical Account of the Individual–Family–Population Nexus in Post-Socialist Transitions / Chang Kyung-Sup -- Family and Social Change in Russia / Yulia Gradskova -- Exploitation of the Intimate Sphere in Socialist and Post-Socialist Ukraine / Lyudmyla Males and Tymur Sandrovych -- Changes in the Area of Family Life in Poland / Małgorzata Sikorska -- Contemporary Family in Slovakia: Demography, Values, Gender and Policy / Peter Guráň , Jarmila Filadelfiová and Miloš Debnár -- Family Systems and Family Values in Twenty-First-Century Hungary / Csaba Dupcsik and Olga Tóth -- Romanian Families: Changes and Continuities over Recent Decades / Borbála Kovács -- The Transition of Chinese Families over the Past Thirty Years (1978–2010) / Zhou Weihong , Xue Yali and Liu Wenrong -- Changes in Socio-Demographic Characteristics of the Vietnamese Family / Nguyen Huu Minh -- Conclusion / Zsombor Rajkai -- Index / Zsombor Rajkai.

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In Family and Social Change in Socialist and Post-Socialist Societies , the authors address the social transformations of eight transitional societies in recent decades (Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, China and Vietnam). Each chapter discusses a different society and reveals their struggles in the reconstruction of the intimate and public spheres amid the post-Cold War period. Making use of a semi-structured analytical framework, the respective chapters address the ambiguous relationship between familism and individualisation seen through change and continuity in demographic behaviour, family values, family solidarity, gender relations, state policy and marketisation. The volume also outlines the possibility of a modified second demographic transition theory as a correction of Western-based interpretations of current social trends. Contributors include: Zsombor Rajkai, Yulia Gradskova, Lyudmyla Males, Tymur Sandrovych, Maƚgorzata Sikorska, Peter Guráň, Jarmila Filadelfiová, Miloš Debnár, Csaba Dupcsik, Olga Tóth, Borbála Kovács, Zhou Weihong, Liu Wenrong, Xue Yali, Nguyen Huu Minh, Chang Kyung-Sup.