Pregledni rad

Education and »Erlebnisgesellschaft«. The Possibility and Impossibility of Education and Upbringing in the So-Called Society of Experience (Post-Industrial and Post-Consumer Society)

Josip Šimić

Sažetak

In an attempt to offer a conceptual framework for child-rearing, upbringing and education in the traditional ethical value system today, the author begins his analysis by describing the change of social and ethical paradigms which was marked by the decline of the major ideologies, events on Wall Street in 1989 and expansion of global terrorism. The basis for his framework is to be found in his analysis of post-modern society which is characterized by a »patchwork mentality-identity« as well as ethically permissive pluralism, a society termed »Erlebnisgesellschaft« by the German culture-sociologist G. Schulze. In the first part of this paper the author gives a detailed analysis of the the following concepts: »Erlebnisgesellschaft«, »Erlebnismarkt«, »Erlebnismilieu« (Niveau-, Harmonie-, Integrations-, Selbstwervicklichungs- and Unterhaltungsmilieu); also, of patterns prelevant in everyday life (highly trivial, trivial and highly exciting). Furthermore, in this analysis the author describes man’s subjective and objective behaviour in his quest for experience unimpeded by traditional social and religious rules of behaviour on the deregulated experience market. According to Schulze we are dealing with the commercialization of the stylized and schematized experience. In the second section the author deals with the problem of upbringing and education in the society of experience and media-event culture. He advocates a critical response to and discrimination of the philosophy of experience and also resistance to arbitrary ethics in order that the goal of education in values may be attained. Also, in this analysis, the author speaks of reciprocity in the socialization process and in the public education which requires that the educator as role model point out the necessity for self-discipline and self-education as well as the avoidance of pleasure-seeking.

Ključne riječi

Gerhard Schulze; Erlebnisgesellschaft; post-modern society; pluralism; commercialization

Hrčak ID:

202200

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/202200

Datum izdavanja:

25.6.2005.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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