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Families in rural areas
Project
Project code: TI-LR-08-LR-2021-2419
Contract period: 01.10.2021
- 31.12.2026
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Families are subject to constant change, which is not only closely linked to processes of social change, but is also of sociopolitical relevance. In this project, the living conditions of families in rural areas are investigated. Families are increasingly diverse, whether in terms of the degree of institutionalization (e.g., marriage, registered partnership, non-marital cohabitation); living and care arrangements (e.g., two-parent families, single-parent families, "patchwork families", multi-generational households); the construction as a network of kinship and friendship relationships, or the location as a transnational or multilocal family. Demographic change raises questions about the organization of care work within and outside the family. The increasing propensity of women to work and the willingness of fathers to take on care work go hand in hand with the question of how the reconciliation of family and work can succeed. These issues are also being discussed in rural regions, especially with regard to the shaping of demographic change. In family research, however, spatial differences have so far rarely been addressed, and rural areas are hardly covered in a differentiated manner. Therefore, the living conditions of families in different rural areas are to be examined more closely in this project. Families in rural areas are an important target group when it comes to securing the long-term workforce. Families also play an important role in meeting the challenges of an aging society, which is progressing particularly rapidly in some rural areas, since the majority of care services are provided by family members. In their everyday lives, families need and use a wide range of local services of general interest (education and care facilities, medical care, recreational facilities and clubs, public transportation, etc.). Knowing more about the living conditions of families in rural areas is therefore also important with regard to the socio-political goal of creating equal living conditions.
Section overview
Subjects
- Agricultural Sociology
