ANNALES, SERIES HISTORIA ET SOCIOLOGIA

Old Age Poverty

Otto Gerdina, Vesna Leskošek — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

This article examines gender differences in old-age poverty in Slovenia through a life course perspective. Using qualitative in-depth interviews with 33 individuals aged 65 and older, the article identifies gender specific patterns of deprivation. Findings reveal that both men and women experience fragmented work histories and engagement in the grey economy, but women face additional disadvantages due to lower education levels, caregiving responsibilities, and persistent gender pay gaps. The insight into the interplay between structural inequalities and individual trajectories in shaping old-age poverty contributes to an understanding of the ways in which gender specific disadvantages accumulate over time.

Navigating Hardship

Nina Perger, Tanja Kamin, Jana Mali — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

This article analyses the practical strategies used by older people living in poverty to navigate their social worlds, which, applying Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical framework, are framed by ‘positional suffering’ due to low social status. Qualitative data gathered from biographical interviews reveal strategies that include adjusting one’s aspirations to what is attainable, adapting one’s needs to match necessities, learned self-sufficiency, relentless prioritisation, an emphasis on cost-consciousness and stringent conservation, prioritisation by sacrifice and dispositions to ‘make something out of nothing’. Crucially, these strategies emphasise that older people living in poverty are active agents navigating through hardship.

Poverty in Slovenia Through the Key Themes in a Life Course Approach

Andreja Živoder, Alenka Švab — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

In this paper we present results of a qualitative study on the life course and everyday life of poor elderly people in Slovenia. 33 in-depth biographical interviews were conducted with individuals aged 65 and over living in poverty. By examining empirical data through the lens of the key themes of the life course approach, the aim of the article is to illuminate the intricate ways in which poverty unfolds and develops over time, in different periods of life as well as different in life trajectories, such as education, employment, family and health trajectory.

Integration of Peasants into the Social Security Systems in Socialist Slovenia

Žarko Lazarević — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

The present contribution examines the integration of peasants into the social security systems in the second half of the twentieth century. In the first part of the article, the historical context (ideological background, agricultural and social policies, structural changes) is presented, while the second part focuses on the long-term social position of agriculture and peasants. The third part examines the acute problems of agricultural poverty and systemic measures to improve the situation of the agricultural population, based on the example of health and pension insurance.

“This Much You Should Know: I was Less Afraid of a Snake Than of my Husband”

Ana Kralj — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

This article presents the findings of a study examining the lifelong experiences of older women affected by social deprivation, poverty, and domestic violence. Employing a life course perspective and biographical narrative interviews, the research reveals a constellation of interrelated factors that have shaped and reinforced these women’s marginalization. Key among these are the intergenerational transmission of deprivation, limited access to social and cultural capital, the presence of parental and/or spousal alcoholism, and the pervasive influence of patriarchal norms – both within the family and embedded in dominant institutional culture.

Foster Care for Older Persons

Andrea Rakanović Radonjić, Draško Gajić — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

The aim of this paper is to show how Foster care for older persons can ensure an adequate level of quality of life and demonstrate the potential of social investment strategies, focusing on the introduction of foster care, as a means to reduce poverty. The paper was prepared using a variety of methods: statistical, hypothetical-deductive, analytical-deductive, and comparative methods, including fundamental scientific techniques. The data show that older people placed in foster care have a subjectively more satisfying quality of life and that they rate their personal poverty better than before placement.

Application of the Usage-based Approach

Nada Poropat Jeletić, Sonja Lukšić — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Taking into consideration the dynamic and adaptable nature of code-switching of the Istrian bilingual speakers, the objective of this paper is to investigate the aspects underlying the processing and production of switched linguistic sequences, focusing in particular on conceptualization, frequency, accessibility, similarity and adaptation of linguistic constructs in specific contexts, as well as pragmatic purposes and functions.

To the Methodology of Determination Genealinguistic Language Borders

Januška Gostenčnik — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

The paper critically examines and evaluates two different methodological approaches to the determination of genealinguistic language, more specifically dialectal borders, using the case of the study of local dialects in the Gorski kotar region. Dialectology is defined as a science within genealogy, which is one of the three branches of linguistics (along with typolinguistics and sociolinguistics). It is emphasised that within dialectology, theorems and criteria from different branches of linguistics cannot be combined, and in this context a clearer definition of the meaning of the adjective Slovenian within the phrase Slovenian dialects is also given. The paper also provides a genealogical justification for the revised Map of Slovenian dialects (version 2023).