Value Change and Gender Roles in Central and Eastern European Countries after 1990 in the Context of Inglehart's Modernization Theory

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An intergenerational shift from more pro-family norms to individual-choice norms has been taking place since the 1980s. Modernization theory assumes that the perception of gender roles will change in the process of modernization. Conditions of economic and social security positively contributed to this shift especially in high-income countries. The contribution will focus on the modernization change on value structures in selected Central and Eastern European countries and compare them with Western European ones. First it points to whether the value shift in CEE countries is moving in the assumed direction and whether it is copying trends observed in Western European countries. After it will look at the gender roles and their developments in the light of Inglehart’s modernization theory. Data collected within the cross-sectional European Values Study (EVS) will be used.

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Beatrice-Elena Chromková Manea is postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology at Masaryk University Brno in Czech Republic and also Assistant Professor both at the Mendel University and the Ostrava University. She has studied sociology at the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, where she also received her PhD in 2011. Previously she worked for several years as senior social researcher at IMAS in Bucharest, Romania. She has much experience as a researcher in research projects funded by the European Commission, such as the research project “Population Policy Acceptance Study” financed within the Fifth Framework Program and the FEMAGE research project “Needs for female immigrants and their integration in ageing societies” promoted within the Sixth Framework Program of the European Commission. In addition, she has received numerous research grants from research foundations in Czech Republic. Her research interests are in the sociology of values, quantitative methods in social research, population studies, health and well-being, social stratification and the labour market, and the sociology of the family.