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The Social Aspects of Urban Life in the War
Dušica Seferagić
; Institut za društvena istraživanja Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This article is an atternpt at a sociological approach to a current event. It speaks about the
effects of war on urban (partly also on rural) life. The main effects are: a) drastic demographic
changes: the migration of thousands of people from villages and towns destroyed
or damaged by the war into settlements spared from war destruction. The »Saigon model«
of fleeing from villages into towns in search of safety caused many problems in housing,
unemployment, tensions between hosts and irnmigrants, and is threatening a demographic
debalance in the whole of Croatia; b) the disfunction of the social and technical public
utility system, an adaptation to the decrease of sanitary conditions to amedieval level and
retuming to the community as the dominant type of interpersonal relations; c) social disintegration
because of national tensions and social homogenization based on the victim
principle and nationality temporarily erase norma I social differences, d) psychic problems
appear among all people, especially those who lived through the horrors of war and those
who fought in the war. The author considers that psychic problems will be the most lasting
effect of the war, although they are hidden at first glance: e) urban pathology is rife.
Crime and terrorism are increasing. There is also »grey pathology«. black marketing humanitarian
aid, weapons etc. While great cities favour these kinds of activities, in villages
there is frequent maltreatment, murder and expulsion of the unprotected population; f) all
this leads to a great decrease in the quality of life, starting from elementary technical eonditions
to more complex social and psychic tension. The basic characteristic of the decreased
quality of life is a return to primary needs.
Ključne riječi
war; urban life; social system; social disintegration; social homogenization
Hrčak ID:
99603
URI
Datum izdavanja:
21.9.2003.
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