Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 81 No. 4, 2011.
Review article
Fear, Subsidiarity and Participation
Irena Sever
; Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Damir Mravunac
; Centre for Promotion of the Social Teaching of the Church of the Croatian Bishop's Conference, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Fear is a basic human emotion which is often related to the presumption that it challenges passive actors. Just as the participation of all in social life is a vital criterion for the principle of subsidiarity and based on psychology, theology and sociology, we were particularly interested in investigating to what extent fear determines people's position in the social structure in Croatia. We were interested to see whether there were several factors of fear and what were their characteristics. With reference to the analysis of the theory developed within the sociology of emotion and, secondly, to the social teachings of the Church about the principle of subsidiarity we believe that one of the ways to overcome fear is through associating amongst individuals and their participation in developing a subsidiary society.
Keywords
strah; supsidijarnost; sociologija; emocija; sudjelovanje; djelovanje emocija
Hrčak ID:
76047
URI
Publication date:
11.1.2012.
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