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PROGRESS AND CONCEPTS OF DEVELOPMENT
Ivan Cifrić
; Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb
Sažetak
Comprehending the concepts of the development and understanding their inter-relations are analysed on the basis of the results of empirical research made in Croatia in 1992 on a representative random sample of 547 students of Zagreb and Rijeka Universities.
Using the instrument of 35 statements there resulted the concepts of the development as: zero exponential and sustainable development, and with the instrument of 30 statements the concept of progress has been made operative. To both instruments the Likert scale with range from 1 to 5 has been applied particularly at the evaluations of the contents (problems): demographic, natural resources, energy, food and pollution.
Using the factor analysis under the component model, coupled with the PB criterion, the basic solutions have been determined and by their ortho-oblique transformation the latent dimensions of the perception of the development have been obtained ("the development based on optimal use and saving of natural resources", "desirability of demographic balance", "development based on in-exhaustibility and maximum usage of natural resources" and "improvement of the quality of food and change of the forms and ways of nourishment"), as well as the perception of the progress ("value and moral denial of the progress", "uncritical technicism" and "humanistic and technical optimism").
Using canon analysis an important connection has been isolated from among the groups for development and those for progress explaining 37% of common variance, and applying the coefficient of multiple correlation of .61 it is shown that the understanding of the development, based on the in-exhaustibility and maximum usage of the natural resources, is founded on the comprehending of the progress as un-critical technicism.
The existence of various dimensions of progress and development in the minds of the student population can be explained by the influence of the world ideas and social context of the research projects and by the under-development reality of Croatia.
Ključne riječi
development; exponential increase; progress; sustainable development; students; zero growth
Hrčak ID:
139061
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.7.1993.
Posjeta: 1.855 *