Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2007, 8 (2): 1-6

Our Close Relationships and Democratization Changes: Towards a New Understanding of Sources of Integration and Reproduction of Society after 1989

Marcel Tomášek

Political forces dominating the mainstream of the Czech political scene accuse independently living individuals of selfish privatization and extrapolated consumerism. However, the shared household model of living (not in a couple or within own family) extensively spreads among independently living individuals alongside this 'privatization'. The milieu of this specific households, which represent so called 'chosen families' consisting of flat mates and friends in the flat or house rented in group, is along with single occupied households the source of what is described as 'urban tribes'. Precisely these independently living individuals and their specific structures in contrary prevent and confront the societal erosion and disintegration. Their life-styles and everyday practices extensively lead to activities contributing to community revival at the local level as well as to maintaining of an open character of the society more generally.

Keywords: Urban tribes, Singles, Post-socialism

Published: June 1, 2007  Show citation

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