Individual actors' goals in transformation and modernisation - The case ofCzech republic, Poland, and Slovakia (Results of a comparative sociological survey)

The case of Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. Life goals of people in po st-communist countries are significant indicators of social transformation on micro-level of society. The very first consequences of social transforma tion at the macro-level were changes in state social policy. Those changes caused a situation of social pressure operating on individuals and families . The article is based on comparison of individual and family goals in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. In all three countries individual and family goals are socially conditioned. Individual goals subsequently influe nce personal acting in the most important spheres of social life (demograph ic behaviour, individual strategies on the labour market and in evaluation of social transformation and modernisation process). Cross-country comparis ons indicate more similarities in individual and family life goals in Polan d and Slovakia as well as their different structure in the Czech Republic.