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Tarpusavio santykių kokybė Lietuvos šeimose
Authors: Maslauskaitė Aušra 
Published: January 2019

This article is dedicated to the exploration of marital quality in the Lithuanian families and based on the analysis of the sociological survey data (N=500). Marital quality is measured with the Marital Satisfaction (EMS) scale. The article examines the effect of marital quality on the emotional cohesion, conflict level, conflict management style, role sharing in the domestic work and attitudes toward the partnership formation patterns.
Married or cohabiting women in Lithuanian society are more dissatisfied with the marital quality than men are. Gender is the strongest factor, which predicts marital quality. Testing other variables, i.e. class, age, family structure or family background proved no significant connection with the marital quality. Marital quality positively affects the emotional cohesion of partners, reduces the conflict level and leads to the symmetrical role sharing in the couple. Higher levels of satisfaction with marital life are bound with the positive attitudes toward the institutional partnership formation patterns.
Sociologijos metodas. Istorinio proceso analizė
Authors: Valantiejus Algimantas 
Published: January 2019

The aim of the article is to explore the concept of sociological method by specifying the historical aspects of classical sociological thought. Sociological method is best seen as one of the chief heirs of the Enlightenment: it can be understood first of all as the historical realisation of the Enlightenment’s conception of a measurement and verification. Nevertheless, from its inception, sociology has been a confluence of many methodological streams. The concept of method is in fact highly ambiguous.
This article offers a critical examination of the methodological modifications throughout the history of sociological thought. A central thesis of this article is that the very idea of method cannot be separated from the idea of meta-method.
Psichoneurologiniai pensionatai: socialinio darbo ar disciplinarinės visuomenės institutas?
Authors: Rimšaitė Eglė 
Published: January 2019

One of the most established forms of care for people with mental disabilities and mental illnesses in the former Soviet Union and in Central and Eastern Europe was treatment in large institutions – psycho neurological care homes. From one side, these institutions are integral part of social care systems and they pursue goals of social work: integration, inclusion, clients’ needs satisfaction. From the other side, various scientists portray institutions of this type as totalitarian institutions (Tobis, 2000) or disciplinary society institutions (Foucault, 1998),
criticize them for violation of human rights and humiliation of human dignity.
From the outlook of two confronting perspectives, the following article discusses the main mission of these institutions: promoting integration to society by supplying social services or aggravating the social exclusion by limiting residents’ rights, possibilities and privacy.
Magistrų integracija į darbo rinką: magistrantūros studijų absolventų sociologinės apklausos analizė
Authors: Beresnevičiūtė Vida , Poviliūnas Arūnas 
Published: January 2019

The article is based on the data of the representative sociological survey of the master‘s studies graduates of 2001–2005. The survey was conducted by “RAIT“ company on the order by the Public Policy and Management Institute. The analysis of the sociological survey data of master‘s studies graduates was based on the following major aspects: structural which embraced the analysis of the graduates’ position in the labour market; functional which examined the readiness of the graduates for the labour market, and evaluative which is related to the evaluation of the graduates’ professional integration.
The functional analysis of the graduates’ integration into the labour market revealed that only a part of the surveyed graduates consider their studies as facilitating in their preparation for the employment. Two-thirds agree that the master’s studies helped them prepare for their professional activity and guarantee a more successful professional career. A larger part of the graduates thinks that their wages do not comply with their acquired education.
The graduates are sure that their education and the professional competence are better valued by the society than the size of their income, material wellbeing and connections. Noting that high self-evaluation is prerogative for successful social integration, it is possible to maintain that the professional studies provided with the basis for more successful social integration.
Instituciniai domenai, įtampos laukai ir institucinės inovacijos. Sociologiniai aspektai
Authors: Rinkevičius Leonardas 
Published: January 2019

This article explores the structural roots of institutional fields of tensions. It singles out four societal domains – bureaucratic, economic, academic, and civic – and elaborates on different doctrines, steering mechanisms and ethos prevailing in such domains. It draws on Max Weber’s concepts of “ideal types’ of politically and economically-oriented action as a theoretical predecessor of the concept of domains and institutional tensions. It also draws on Giddens’ interpretation of social structuring processes, and develops a notion of institutional learning by proposing a concept of inter-institutional learning. The recent case of developing a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania is deployed in this article inter alia as an illustration of the tensions arising between different institutional domains, as an illustration of dominance of certain principles, steering
mechanisms and ethos pertaining to particular institutional domains, e.g. bureaucratic and economic, whereas other domains such as civic are neglected or marginalized. It is also conceived as an example illuminating the opening of possible ways in the search for institutional innovations.
Ateities kolonizavimas
Authors: Murphy John W. 
Published: January 2019

Central to this paper is the idea that the world, including the future, is in the process of being colonized. In general, what this means is that persons do not have control of their experiences. In terms supplied by Marx, they are alienated and lost in a threatening world.
To be post-colonial means that persons have gained the insight necessary to retrieve history. Rather
than enslaved by history, and thus determined a priori by social conditions, they are able to create themselves and new institutional arrangements. They are not restricted by history, and thus unable to invent the future, but can begin to rethink radically about the nature of collective identity and social integration. Only in this manner can the remnants of colonization be abandoned.
In order to counteract colonization, what is needed is more utopian thought. Contrary to what many
critics may believe, utopianism is neither irrational nor indicative of fantasy. Central to utopian thinking, instead, is a refusal to be entrapped in the traditional portrayal of social reality.
Europinio tapatumo sunkumai: diskursas, kultūra, politika ir post-nacionalizmas
Authors: Švarplys Andrius 
Published: January 2019

The paper expresses constructivist approach to the issue, asking the question: what there are essiantialdiscourses on European identity problem? The cultural, national, philosophical and political discourses shape European identity.
The analysis of each of them shows that the efforts to universalise common European culture in the cultural-political discourse result in European Union as transnational state with actually the same
features as of a national state only on the higher supra-national level. The final result is either unfavou­rable Euronationalism and Eurocentrism, or everlasting confrontation between national and euro identity. The alternative way is to cunstruct postnational identity, which means that European identity definition should contain any cultural references (because all cultural meanings still remain national). Postnational European identity receives constitutional face, because people recognize constitutional values as universal while still owning national identities.
Pilietinių veiklų rizikos ir motyvacija dalyvauti pilietinėse veiklose šiandieninėje Lietuvos visuomenėje
Authors: Žiliukaitė Rūta 
Published: January 2019

The data of longitudinal research project “Civic Empowerment Index of Lithuanian society” show that more than a half of Lithuania’s population thinks that it is likely for an individual who initiates and takes an active part in civic activity to suffer damage due to his/her civic engagement. Analysis presented in this article reveals that people, who do not participate in civic activities, and those, who take and active part in it, do not differ in regard of their attitudes towards likelihood to encounter various threads by being engaged in civic activity. Data also show that people who are more active members of civil society more often indicate that they personally experienced such damage than those, who participate in civic activities rarely. Taking into account these results, the article aims to answer two questions. First, why do people, who have an experience of suffering damages due to their civic engagement or who think that it is likely to
suffer such damages in contemporary Lithuanian society, continue to take an active part in these activities? Second, how damages, perceived by majority of the population, may restrict the involvement of people into collective action?
Subjektyvios pagyvenusių žmonių gyvenimo kokybės socialiniai ekonominiai veiksniai
Authors: Vaznonienė Gintarė 
Published: January 2019

This article is intended to review the evolution of quality of life conceptualization in academic literature as well as to analyze the results of subjective quality of life of old people in Lithuania. The scientific analysis of subjective quality of life (well-being) refers to people’s global judgments about their whole quality of life and life satisfaction also giving special attention to the reactions on different social economical factors influencing their quality of life. The subjective quality of life questionnaire was adopted according to internationally accepted subjective quality of life methodologies. The research was based on self-report questionnaires in Lithuanian old people sample (N=602). Research results reveal significant importance of social economic
factors evaluating whole quality of life and its domains of old respondents.
Visuomeninės nuostatos ir (nepastebima)rezistencija Kaune vėlyvuoju sovietmečiu
Authors: Bulota Rytis 
Published: January 2019

This article deals with the main oppositional stances and their manifestations in Kaunas during the late Soviet period, employing the theoretical model of ‘unobtrusive practices of contention’ as formulated by H. Johnston and C. Mueller.
During the analysed period the main oppositional groups in occupied Lithuania were of a rather non-conformist nature. One of the socially recognisable and visible forms of ideological protest was
represented by ethno-cultural and Catholic movements, based on traditional values, another, by prowestern subcultures or artists’ gatherings. Even though the activities of these groups allow us to comprehend them analytically as the main hotbeds of resistance, strong negative stances towards the Soviet regime were widespread in the rest of society. Such stances didn’t acquire the form of evident, declarable or socially visible practices, yet they contributed to the success of Sąjūdis as a social movement. Social movements are largely connected with a collective identity and the securing or preservation of it. The oppositional stances discussed in the article grounded such a collective identity. Its existence provides an explanation of the rapid mobilisation of the movement – in just three weeks after its establishment in the rallies of Sąjūdis tens of thousands and very soon afterwards hundreds of thousands participated.
Lyginamoji moralinio veiksmo analizė Vytauto Kavolio ir Émile’io Durkheimo sociologijos teorijose
Authors: Varnauskaitė Laura 
Published: January 2019

The article analyses the moral action to reveal the elements of tension and interaction between the individual and the society by comparing theories of Vytautas Kavolis and of Emile Durkheim. Social action and moral action are different analytical categories. The problem arises when it is necessary to establish links between these concepts. The article is based on the position that moral action and social action has a relation as part and a whole, has a different study objects, but obeys the same study method. According to Durkheim‘ s definitions of social fact and of moral fact, social fact is a broader category that includes the moral facts. It is shown that the facts includes social phenomena feathuring the expediency of performed actions of individuals. Therefore, social action is interpreted by adapting the definition of a social fact, as appropriate, moral action is interpreted by definition of moral fact. The aim is to identify the characteristics, conditions, and factors of moral action. Theories of moral action of Durkheim and of Kavolis are analyzed. French sociologist distinguishes social power to encourage an individual to behave in one way or another. Durkheim indicates that the social power works in society as in individuals by using an association method. Kavolis emphasizes the inner imperative which is a basis for moral action, arising from the conscious individual, performed after internalisation of moral principle itself. However, the individual and society have different goals. An individual seeks to realize the freedom as creative potential. The society requires the individual to obey historically formed norms and rules of conduct. On the other hand, the individual performing a moral action is always influenced by the social environment and his actions always have social impact.
„Netradicinis“ tėvas šiuolaikinėje Lietuvoje
Authors: Radžiūnienė Lina 
Published: January 2019

Vilniaus universitetasSocialinio darbo katedraUniversiteto g. 9/1, LT-01513 VilniusTel. +370 652 489 50El. paštas: lina.radziuniene@gmail.com
Tiriant tėvystę Lietuvoje retai gretinamos skirtingo socialinio statuso tėvų patirtys ir vertinama jų padėtis visuomenėje. Straipsnyje tėvystė aptariama naujai: pasitelkiant „kito“ supratimo teorines prieigas ir kokybinį tyrimą.Šio straipsnio tikslas – panagrinėti skirtingo socialinio statuso vyrų tėvystės patirtis pasitelkiant „kito“ supratimo teorinę perspektyvą. Tam atliktas kokybinis tyrimas – vienuolika pusiau struktūruotų interviu su 27–44 m. tėvais, turinčiais mažamečių vaikų (ikimokyklinio ar pradinio mokyklinio mažiaus). Kitoniškumui analizuoti atrinkti „kiti“ pagal šeimos statusą tėvai: išsiskyrę, kartu gyvenantys nesusituokę tėvai, „kiti“ pagal tėvo biologinį statusą: patėviai, įtėviai ir heteronormos požiūriu „kiti“ – netradicinės seksualinės orientacijos, biseksualūs tėvai. Tyrimo rezultatams aptarti naudojama P. L. Bergerio ir T. Luckmanno socialinio konstruktyvizmo prieiga.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: tėvystė, šeimos statusas, „kito“ supratimas, kokybinis tyrimas.Understanding of non-traditional fatherhood in contememporary Lithuania: analysis of qualitative interviewewsLina Radžiūnienė
SummaryWhile examining the fatherhood in Lithuania experience of different parental statuses or their position in society are rarely confronted. In the article fatherhood is discussed in the new perspective: using theories of understanding the other and qualitative research.This article aims to reveal the issues of father’s social status from the perspective of understanding the other. The analysis is based on 11 semi-structured qualitative interviews with fathers’ aged 27–44 and having children of preschool or primary school age. In order to analyse otherness, „other“ fathers are selected by family status: divorced, unmarried, but living together fathers, „other“ by biological status: stepfathers, adoptive fathers; and „other“ in terms of heteronormativity – non-traditional sexual orientation, bisexual fathers. In the presentation of findings T. Luckmann and P.L. Berger social construction approach is used.Key words: fatherhood, family status, understanding the other, qualitative research.
Migrantai kaip „gerai informuoti piliečiai“: gimtosios šalies visuomenėje vykstančių socialinių reiškinių vertinimas
Authors: Tonkūnaitė-Thiemann Agnė 
Published: January 2019

Vilniaus universiteto Sociologijos katedros doktorantėUniversiteto g. 9/1, LT-01513 VilniusEl. paštas: atonkunaite@yahoo.com
Šiame straipsnyje pateikiamos pirmosios kokybinio iš Lietuvos, Lenkijos ir Vengrijos kilusių ir šiuo metu Vokietijoje gyvenančių migrantų požiūrių tyrimo įžvalgos. Straipsnio tikslas – atskleisti migrantų iš Rytų ir Vidurio Europos (Lietuvos, Lenkijos ir Vengrijos) požiūrį į savo gimtųjų šalių visuomenėse vykstančius socialinius reiškinius – bendrą politinę situaciją, valstybės ir piliečio santykį, socialinę apsaugą ir požiūrį į socialines problemas.Emigracijos tema ypač aktuali Rytų ir Vidurio Europos šalims dėl patiriamo didelio darbingo amžiaus gyventojų mažėjimo ir dėl to lėtėjančių ekonominio augimo ir socialinės gerovės. Nors šių dienų emigracijos priežastys dažniausiai yra ekonominės, migraciją lemia ir kiti veiksniai. Valstybės požiūris (bendrąja prasme) į savo pilietį tampa vis aktualesnė diskusijų ir socialinių tyrimų tema. Straipsnyje pristatomo kokybinio tyrimo (pusiau struktūruoto interviu) informantai laikytini „gerai informuotais piliečiais“, remiantis A. Schutzo išskirtais žinojimo tipais, gebantys iš migracinės perspektyvos vertinti gimtųjų šalių visuomenes.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: migracija, „gerai informuotas pilietis“, Rytų ir Vidurio Europa.Migrants as „wewell informemed citizens“: the evaluation of native society and social processes there.First results of qualitative interviewewsAgnė Tonkūnaitė-Thiemann
SummaryThis article presents the first findings of the qualitative research – semi-structured interviews, conducted with migrants living in Germany and coming from East and Central European countries such as Lithuania, Poland and Hungary. The aim of this article is to reveal the attitudes toward the native societies and social processes there. The topic of emigration is extremely important and sensitive for the East and Central European countries as it reduces the number of the labour force and in its influence slows down the economical and social progress in the analyzed countries. Despite the main reason of emigration supposed to be economical, but migration is also influenced by other factors. The state attitudes towards its Citizen (inhabitant) start to come to the centre of discussion both in the public discourse and empirical social research. According to A.Schutz defined types of knowledge, the informants of this qualitative research are understood as „well informed citizens“, who are able to compare both German and their native societies and there ongoing social processes.
Key words: migration, „well informed Citizen“, East and Central Europe.
Perskirstymas gerovės valstybės kilmės teorijose
Authors: Ivaškaitė-Tamošiūnė Viginta 
Published: January 2019

Vilniaus universitetas, Universiteto g. 9/1, LT-01513 VilniusTel. (+370) 5 266 76 10El. paštas: viginta@ktl.mii.lt
Šiuo straipsniu siekiama atskleisti, kaip traktuojamas perskirstymas skirtingose gerovės valstybės kilmės teorijose, kokia jo svarba jose, ar galima numatyti perskirstymo dydį, kryptį, kokias rizikas siekiama kompensuoti perskirstant. Pirmoje straipsnio dalyje pristatoma perskirstymo samprata. Kitose dalyse perskirstymas nagrinėjamas pasitelkiant kelias gerovės valstybės kilmę aiškinančias teorijas: funkcionalizmą („industrializacijos logikos“ tezę), galios išteklių teoriją, valstybės centristinę prieigą ir institucionalizmo teoriją. Pagrindinė išvada teigia, kad „industrializacijos logikos“ tezė labiau pagrindžia poreikio perskirstyti atsiradimą, o valstybės centristinė ir institucionalizmo teorijos geriau paaiškina skirtumus tarp atskirose valstybėse vykdomo perskirstymo. Išsamiausiai perskirstymas gali būti analizuojamas naudojant galios išteklių teoriją.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: perskirstymas, gerovės valstybė, industrializacijos logika, galios išteklių teorija, institucionalizmas.Redistribution in Theories of Welfare State Developmement Viginta Ivaškaitė-Tamošiūnė
SummaryThis article analyses the conception of redistribution in different theories of welfare state development. What is the role and importance of redistribution in those theories? Could the size and direction of redistribution be identified and what social risks are compensated by redistribution? First part introduces the conception of redistribution. This is followed by other parts where redistribution is analysed through the lens of several theories of welfare state development, namely functionalism (“logic of industrialism”), power-resources theory, state-centered approach and institutionalism. Main findings denote to “logic of industrialism” thesis as the one which is capable to explain arisen need for redistribution, while state-centered approach and institutionalism are more appropriate for explaining the disparities in redistribution in different countries. Most fruitful analysis may be performed when power resources theory is employed.Key words: redistribution, welfare state, logic of industrialism, power-resources theory, institutionalism.
Asmeninių socialinių paslaugų deinstitucionalizacija pokomunistinėje Lietuvoje
Authors: Dunajevas Eugenijus 
Published: January 2019

Vilniaus universitetas, Universiteto g. 9/1, LT-01513 VilniusTel. (+370 5) 266 76 10El. paštas: eugenijus.dunajevas@gmail.com
Vakarų visuomenėse septintajame dešimtmetyje buvo plačiai kalbama apie deinstitucionalizacijos judėjimą. Tas judėjimas sukėlė socialinių ir sveikatos priežiūros paslaugų organizavimo pokyčių. O pokomunistinėse šalyse deinstitucionalizacija buvo susidomėta devintajame praėjusio amžiaus dešimtmetyje. Šiame straipsnyje siekiama įvertinti deinstitucionalizacijos procesą ir jo rezultatus pokomunistinėje Lietuvoje konkrečiai asmeninių socialinių paslaugų srityje.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: deinstitucionalizacija, asmeninės socialinės paslaugos, pokomunistinė Lietuva.The deinstitutionalization of personal social services in post commmmunist LithuaniaEugenijus Dunajevas
SummaryThere was the movement of deinstitutionalization in Western societies in the 7th decade of XX century. The process of deinstitutionalization caused the changes in the organization of social and healthcare services. The process of deinstitutionalization started in post-communists countries in the 9th decade of previous century. The aim of the article is to analyse and evaluate the results of deinstitutionalization in the field of personal social services in post-communist Lithuania.Key words: deinstitutionalization, personal social services, post-communist Lithuania.