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Papers by Dagmar Kutsar
Tartu Ülikool eBooks, 2002
Migration trends and reasons in Estonia in the 1990's. Mare Ainsaar Recalculating expansion facto... more Migration trends and reasons in Estonia in the 1990's. Mare Ainsaar Recalculating expansion factors of the living condition survey samples based on the data of the 2000 census. Urmas Oja, Ene-Margit Tiit
International Journal of Emotional Education, Jun 1, 2022
The present paper analyses 70 retrospective narratives from young adults about their school life.... more The present paper analyses 70 retrospective narratives from young adults about their school life. It looks for answers to the questions of what people and situations young adults recall as sources of positive or negative feelings and how they (re)construct the impacts of school experiences on their lives as young adults. The analysis found that on one hand a cohesive and safe school climate was a source of high self-esteem, well-being and a sense of belonging to the school, while on the other, peer bullying and the difficulties of teachers in coping with complex situations in the classroom were the most persistent problems in the school atmosphere that the young adults recalled as negative. However, the narrators reconstruct some negative past experiences into positives, both individually and collectively
Social sciences, Dec 16, 2022
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
European Studies on Inequalities and Social Cohesion is a peer reviewed international journal tha... more European Studies on Inequalities and Social Cohesion is a peer reviewed international journal that publishes original papers which offer analyses of new empirical material and/or theoretical insights and review articles. It is affiliated at the Institute of Sociology, University of Łódź and published by the Łódź University Press. It covers broad range of topics concerning multidimensional and interdisciplinary approach to social inequalities, processes of social exclusion and inclusion, social stratification and mobility, as well as social policy issues. The European dimension of above mentioned phenomena should be taken into account by the contributors. Comparative approaches will be treated with specific attention. Contributions to the Journal should be sent via e-mail to Assistant Editor: Wojciech Woźniak,
1. Introduction: Why this book? Dagmar Kutsar and Ilona Palne Kovacs Part One: Insights into Euro... more 1. Introduction: Why this book? Dagmar Kutsar and Ilona Palne Kovacs Part One: Insights into European science policies framework 2. International research collaboration in Europe - strategy and role of the European Science Foundation, John Marks and Balazs Kiss 3. The inclusiveness of the European Research Area in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities and the ways and means by which this could be better achieved, Dimitri Corpakis Part Two: State of the art of Social Science and international cooperation in CEE countries 4. The problematique of structures - Social Sciences and CEE in flux, Iris Virtasalo and Jouni Jarvinen 5. The involvement of Central and Eastern European data archives and data providers in forming a pan-European research infrastructure for Social Sciences, Brigitte Hausstein 6. Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe - institutional landscapes, Agnieszka Wenninger 7. Collaboration of the Social Science researchers of CEE countries in European research programmes during the period 1994-2006, Ulle Must 8. Inequalities in Eastern and Central European Research Area. Challenges of regional decentralisation, Gyula Horvath Part Three: Country case studies 9. Czech science policy in Social Sciences and Humanities: towards transformation and catching-up, Adolf Filacek 10.Paving Romania's way towards the European Research Area, Dalina Dumitrescu 11. In isolation parochial standards persist: the case of the social sciences in Bulgaria, Galin Gornev 12. An evalutation system of the Science and internation orientation of Social Scientists: the case of Slovenia, Anton Kramberger and Franc Mali 13. Conclusions: Internationalisation of CEE Social Sciences - is the catching up a myth or reality? Dagmar Kutsar and Ilona Palne Kovacs
Intergenerational relations
This paper links two research fields: elderly care in families and intergenerational solidarity. ... more This paper links two research fields: elderly care in families and intergenerational solidarity. Its aim is to apply Bengtson's general theory of intergenerational solidarity to a specific sample of families currently caring for an elderly family member. Is it possible to apply Bengton's general theory to a generation of families caring for elderly parents? We compared our findings with the results of studies in the US and the Netherlands and found simillar types of families. We also developed and tested a unidimensional scale for measuring family cohesion as a specification of Bengtson's classic model. Success in comparison offers a chance for generalization of our findings also in other countries under specific circumstances.
Przegląd Socjologiczny, 2007
Frontiers in Sociology
As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, social-distancing measures have been implemented worldwid... more As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, social-distancing measures have been implemented worldwide, including school closures. Previous studies indicated that children's relational social cohesion with family (RSC-Fa) and friends (RSC-Fr) may have decreased during the pandemic, but some children described that positive experiences were gained from the confinement measures of social distancing. Mostly, these studies are qualitative or capture a single country and have an exploratory character. Using data collected in 2021 of more than 20,000 children primarily aged 9–13 years as part of the International Children's Worlds COVID-19 Supplement Survey from 18 countries (Germany, Turkey, Bangladesh, Italy, Albania, Romania, Chile, Wales, Taiwan, Belgium, Algeria, Israel, Russia, South Korea, Indonesia, Estonia, Finland, and Spain), this study aimed to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected children's RSC-Fa and RSC-Fr and explore the role of relational factors. RSC-Fa...
Child Indicators Research
This paper presents a cross-national comparison of the influence of parental migration on childre... more This paper presents a cross-national comparison of the influence of parental migration on children’s subjective well-being (SWB). While studies often focus on the economic implications of adult migration, research on its effects on children’s well-being is scarce, particularly in Europe. Data from surveys of over 13,500 school children in six European countries with a communist legacy were analysed. These were collected as part of Children’s Worlds - The International Study of Children’s Well-being (ISCWeB). The findings reveal that left-behind children generally have lower levels of SWB than non-left-behind children, with girls being more affected, and the gap in well-being increases with age. Left-behind status was also associated with lower family and school satisfaction. A hierarchical logistic regression model was used to explore the role of parental migration and family and school life satisfaction in predicting high SWB of children. While including family and school life sati...
Social Development and Societies in Transition, 2019
Child Indicators Research
Childhood
The present study is part of a larger research that analyses children’s autonomy in healthcare se... more The present study is part of a larger research that analyses children’s autonomy in healthcare settings from the perspective of doctors, children and their parents. Based on responses of 52 medical doctors in Estonia, this paper explores doctor’s perspectives on how children’s autonomy is exercised in a child-parent-doctor triangle and how patient’s duality affects this process. The article combines relational theories of agency from childhood studies with the concept of children’s autonomy applied in children’s rights studies.
Social Sciences
Family complexity is increasing in Europe, experienced by a significant proportion of children. M... more Family complexity is increasing in Europe, experienced by a significant proportion of children. More evidence is needed in Europe how children’s family type influences their well-being, especially their family-related subjective well-being, and to what extent parenting practices are playing a role in these relationships. The aim of the paper is to study perceptions of children who live with two biological parents, with a biological and a stepparent, or with a single parent about the parenting practices of their (step)parents and their satisfaction with the people they live with. The analysis is based on the third wave of the “Children’s Worlds” harmonized dataset of 12-year-old children in Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Norway, Poland, and Romania. The findings reveal a ‘cascade of children’s appraisals’ by the family types—overall, living with two biological parents is the least and in a stepparent family the most complex family environment for children, reflected in their highest and ...
Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis, 2016
Local governments are important childcare service producers. This chapter delineates their corres... more Local governments are important childcare service producers. This chapter delineates their corresponding features across Europe, explores adjustments in childcare governance and discusses its consequences. The EU has, to a certain extent, harmonized child daycare by setting common goals. However, the recent changes in this policy area, arising from the economic crisis, policy-specific motivations, and more generic reforms concerning municipal tasks and obligations, have led to different service reorganization and provision strategies in terms of scaling and re-scaling. The public debt crisis in 2010 has impacted child daycare too, and recent local government reforms have had an impact on the autonomy of municipalities in this sector. With the retrenchment of local government, public coverage of childcare is threatened, while tendencies of up- and trans-scaling are enhanced.
Contemporary Social Science, 2015
ABSTRACT
Tartu Ülikool eBooks, 2002
Migration trends and reasons in Estonia in the 1990's. Mare Ainsaar Recalculating expansion facto... more Migration trends and reasons in Estonia in the 1990's. Mare Ainsaar Recalculating expansion factors of the living condition survey samples based on the data of the 2000 census. Urmas Oja, Ene-Margit Tiit
International Journal of Emotional Education, Jun 1, 2022
The present paper analyses 70 retrospective narratives from young adults about their school life.... more The present paper analyses 70 retrospective narratives from young adults about their school life. It looks for answers to the questions of what people and situations young adults recall as sources of positive or negative feelings and how they (re)construct the impacts of school experiences on their lives as young adults. The analysis found that on one hand a cohesive and safe school climate was a source of high self-esteem, well-being and a sense of belonging to the school, while on the other, peer bullying and the difficulties of teachers in coping with complex situations in the classroom were the most persistent problems in the school atmosphere that the young adults recalled as negative. However, the narrators reconstruct some negative past experiences into positives, both individually and collectively
Social sciences, Dec 16, 2022
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
European Studies on Inequalities and Social Cohesion is a peer reviewed international journal tha... more European Studies on Inequalities and Social Cohesion is a peer reviewed international journal that publishes original papers which offer analyses of new empirical material and/or theoretical insights and review articles. It is affiliated at the Institute of Sociology, University of Łódź and published by the Łódź University Press. It covers broad range of topics concerning multidimensional and interdisciplinary approach to social inequalities, processes of social exclusion and inclusion, social stratification and mobility, as well as social policy issues. The European dimension of above mentioned phenomena should be taken into account by the contributors. Comparative approaches will be treated with specific attention. Contributions to the Journal should be sent via e-mail to Assistant Editor: Wojciech Woźniak,
1. Introduction: Why this book? Dagmar Kutsar and Ilona Palne Kovacs Part One: Insights into Euro... more 1. Introduction: Why this book? Dagmar Kutsar and Ilona Palne Kovacs Part One: Insights into European science policies framework 2. International research collaboration in Europe - strategy and role of the European Science Foundation, John Marks and Balazs Kiss 3. The inclusiveness of the European Research Area in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities and the ways and means by which this could be better achieved, Dimitri Corpakis Part Two: State of the art of Social Science and international cooperation in CEE countries 4. The problematique of structures - Social Sciences and CEE in flux, Iris Virtasalo and Jouni Jarvinen 5. The involvement of Central and Eastern European data archives and data providers in forming a pan-European research infrastructure for Social Sciences, Brigitte Hausstein 6. Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe - institutional landscapes, Agnieszka Wenninger 7. Collaboration of the Social Science researchers of CEE countries in European research programmes during the period 1994-2006, Ulle Must 8. Inequalities in Eastern and Central European Research Area. Challenges of regional decentralisation, Gyula Horvath Part Three: Country case studies 9. Czech science policy in Social Sciences and Humanities: towards transformation and catching-up, Adolf Filacek 10.Paving Romania's way towards the European Research Area, Dalina Dumitrescu 11. In isolation parochial standards persist: the case of the social sciences in Bulgaria, Galin Gornev 12. An evalutation system of the Science and internation orientation of Social Scientists: the case of Slovenia, Anton Kramberger and Franc Mali 13. Conclusions: Internationalisation of CEE Social Sciences - is the catching up a myth or reality? Dagmar Kutsar and Ilona Palne Kovacs
Intergenerational relations
This paper links two research fields: elderly care in families and intergenerational solidarity. ... more This paper links two research fields: elderly care in families and intergenerational solidarity. Its aim is to apply Bengtson's general theory of intergenerational solidarity to a specific sample of families currently caring for an elderly family member. Is it possible to apply Bengton's general theory to a generation of families caring for elderly parents? We compared our findings with the results of studies in the US and the Netherlands and found simillar types of families. We also developed and tested a unidimensional scale for measuring family cohesion as a specification of Bengtson's classic model. Success in comparison offers a chance for generalization of our findings also in other countries under specific circumstances.
Przegląd Socjologiczny, 2007
Frontiers in Sociology
As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, social-distancing measures have been implemented worldwid... more As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, social-distancing measures have been implemented worldwide, including school closures. Previous studies indicated that children's relational social cohesion with family (RSC-Fa) and friends (RSC-Fr) may have decreased during the pandemic, but some children described that positive experiences were gained from the confinement measures of social distancing. Mostly, these studies are qualitative or capture a single country and have an exploratory character. Using data collected in 2021 of more than 20,000 children primarily aged 9–13 years as part of the International Children's Worlds COVID-19 Supplement Survey from 18 countries (Germany, Turkey, Bangladesh, Italy, Albania, Romania, Chile, Wales, Taiwan, Belgium, Algeria, Israel, Russia, South Korea, Indonesia, Estonia, Finland, and Spain), this study aimed to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected children's RSC-Fa and RSC-Fr and explore the role of relational factors. RSC-Fa...
Child Indicators Research
This paper presents a cross-national comparison of the influence of parental migration on childre... more This paper presents a cross-national comparison of the influence of parental migration on children’s subjective well-being (SWB). While studies often focus on the economic implications of adult migration, research on its effects on children’s well-being is scarce, particularly in Europe. Data from surveys of over 13,500 school children in six European countries with a communist legacy were analysed. These were collected as part of Children’s Worlds - The International Study of Children’s Well-being (ISCWeB). The findings reveal that left-behind children generally have lower levels of SWB than non-left-behind children, with girls being more affected, and the gap in well-being increases with age. Left-behind status was also associated with lower family and school satisfaction. A hierarchical logistic regression model was used to explore the role of parental migration and family and school life satisfaction in predicting high SWB of children. While including family and school life sati...
Social Development and Societies in Transition, 2019
Child Indicators Research
Childhood
The present study is part of a larger research that analyses children’s autonomy in healthcare se... more The present study is part of a larger research that analyses children’s autonomy in healthcare settings from the perspective of doctors, children and their parents. Based on responses of 52 medical doctors in Estonia, this paper explores doctor’s perspectives on how children’s autonomy is exercised in a child-parent-doctor triangle and how patient’s duality affects this process. The article combines relational theories of agency from childhood studies with the concept of children’s autonomy applied in children’s rights studies.
Social Sciences
Family complexity is increasing in Europe, experienced by a significant proportion of children. M... more Family complexity is increasing in Europe, experienced by a significant proportion of children. More evidence is needed in Europe how children’s family type influences their well-being, especially their family-related subjective well-being, and to what extent parenting practices are playing a role in these relationships. The aim of the paper is to study perceptions of children who live with two biological parents, with a biological and a stepparent, or with a single parent about the parenting practices of their (step)parents and their satisfaction with the people they live with. The analysis is based on the third wave of the “Children’s Worlds” harmonized dataset of 12-year-old children in Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Norway, Poland, and Romania. The findings reveal a ‘cascade of children’s appraisals’ by the family types—overall, living with two biological parents is the least and in a stepparent family the most complex family environment for children, reflected in their highest and ...
Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis, 2016
Local governments are important childcare service producers. This chapter delineates their corres... more Local governments are important childcare service producers. This chapter delineates their corresponding features across Europe, explores adjustments in childcare governance and discusses its consequences. The EU has, to a certain extent, harmonized child daycare by setting common goals. However, the recent changes in this policy area, arising from the economic crisis, policy-specific motivations, and more generic reforms concerning municipal tasks and obligations, have led to different service reorganization and provision strategies in terms of scaling and re-scaling. The public debt crisis in 2010 has impacted child daycare too, and recent local government reforms have had an impact on the autonomy of municipalities in this sector. With the retrenchment of local government, public coverage of childcare is threatened, while tendencies of up- and trans-scaling are enhanced.
Contemporary Social Science, 2015
ABSTRACT