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CROATIAN SOCIETY TODAY – CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

Josip Županov

Abstract

The article discusses some aspects of continuity and change in Croatian society.
The first part, entitled “A Synoptic View of the Croatian Society Today”,
gives a bird’s-eye-view of the Croatian society – its social structure,
dominant values, main repetitive processes: cooperation, competition, conflict,
and main processes of social change: modernization and re-traditionalization.
It shows the simultaneous effect of forces of continuity and tendencies
to change. The second part, entitled “Dominant Values of Croatian Society”,
presents dominant values on three levels of centeredness: individual (individualism
and utilitarianism), national (the “heroic codex”) and societal (radical
egalitarianism, authoritarianism and solidarity). The war has not introduced
significant changes into the value system, apart from a more prominent and
generalized “heroic codex” and solidarity.

Keywords

Croatian society; social structure; dominant social values; modernization; re-traditionalization; radical egalitarianism; authoritarianism; solidarity

Hrčak ID:

74112

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/74112

Publication date:

18.11.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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