СОЦИАЛНО-ИКОНОМИЧЕСКИТЕ ПРОЦЕСИ В БЪЛГАРСКОТО СЕЛО ПРЕЗ ПОСЛЕДНИТЕ ЧЕТИРИ ДЕСЕТИЛЕТИЯ И ТЯХНОТО ОТРАЖЕНИЕ ВЪРХУ ЖИВОТА НА СЕЛСКОТО СЕМЕЙСТВО
SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROCESSES IN THE BULGARIAN VILLAGE IN THE LAST FOUR DECADES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE LIFE OF THE RURAL FAMILY

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses some negative aspects of the family life of the modern rural population, formed as a result of the economic and socio-demographic processes that took place in the village after the collectivization of the land. These processes have led to the destruction of the old production function of the rural family and to the alienation of its members from the land and from farming labour; to violation of the family demographic and generation structure, thus deeply affecting the reproductive activities of the Bulgarian rural family. An analysis is also given of the processes of transformation and modification in the structure of the rural family, which are connected with a change in the status and in the roles of its members. Although the changes in this sphere can be generally assessed as positive, nevertheless it is here that some of the most negative phenomena in family life, resulting mainly from actively reproduced norms of authoritarianism in the family. The paper also outlines some of the most typical changes in the sphere of the family material and cultural life in the villages, which also betray a number of contradictions. In terms of its material and cultural life, the rural family lags behind more and more from the urban population with serious social differentiation within the rural society itself and inhomogeneity in satisfying the cultural and everyday needs of the different social and class strata, resulting primarily from the incorrect state economic and social policy with respect to the village.

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