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The Urban Cultural Pattern of the Industrial Civilization and Urbanization as a Process of its Diffusion
Vojislav Đurić
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Throughout human history the urban community has played an important
cultura1 role, and although three fifths of the world’s population live in rural districts, the
rural comunity is still regarded as culturally inferior, »a-cultured«, or even »uncultured«.
This is due to the fact that the cultural pattern (which in its wadest sense means a socially organized, practiced and controlled system of
man's attitudes to norms and values conventionalized in what is called the »manner of living«) of the urban community is closely connected with the development of »true« human civilization, i. e. urban civilization which has given humanity science, art, religious and political systems, etc.
In discussing various approaches to the study of the rural and urban cultural patterns, especially the rural-urban dichotomy concept and the rural-urban continuum concept, the author points out their respective advantages and drawbacks.
He believes that these problems should be approached by the method of ideal types which would take the two basic Marxist categories: »work« and »social division of labour« as a principle of the cultural differences between the urban and the rural community.
The study treats urbanization as a multi-dimensional process in the course of which a settled area turns into an urban area; agricultural production becomes comparatively smaller; an urban social structure develops; and urban culture and manner of living become predominant. Urbanization as a process of the diffusion
of urban cultural patterns is reflected in a) an intensified migration from rural to urban communities
b) spread of mass information and communication media,
c) spread of the technical press, and d) spread of uniform general education. In the formation of the urban patterns a certain role is played by the rural patterns.
In conclusion the author discusses certain aspects of adjustment (aculturation) to urban cultural patterns of the industrial civilization.
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Hrčak ID:
119040
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Datum izdavanja:
10.12.1969.
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