Review article
Bibliographic Researches in Sociologija sela (Rural Sociology) quarterly: 1963-2002
Bosiljka Milinković
; Institute for SociaL Research in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In this paper the author analyses the role that Sociologija sela (Rural Sociology) quarterly
has played in bibliographic researches into village and agriculture which have long tradition
in Croatia. Namely, bibliographic researches began in parallei with scientific researches
into village and agriculture in the early 1960s when the Institute of Agriculture in
Zagreb was founded (960) and the Sociologija sela periodical started in 1963 and - with
minor aberrations - they have been carried out ever since. During the period of four decades,
more than fifty different bibliographies on social-economic changes and processes
were published 29 of which - or more than a half - in the Sociologija sela quarterly. All of
them were »pioneering« ones in the area they treated, most of them make thorough data
bases, and most often they were made by the scientists-bibliographers themselves (mainly
in the Institute for Social Research of the University of Zagreb) either as the sondage of
their researches or at the end of the researches. The magazine has constantly paid attention
to it and has always encouraged bibliographic elaboration of each problem that was
even a little more thoroughly researched. Since the bibliographies are the indicators of the
extent of elaboration of a scientific area and the starting points and the prerequisite of the
scientific research work, the author concludes that this part of the Sociologija sela journal's
activity was a cruciai condition for the development of the rural-sociological, agrarian-economic
and congenial interdisciplinary researches of the village and agriculture in Croatia
and former Yugoslavia. The integrated account of published bibliographies, the ir thematic
structure and other characteristics proves the co-rei ati on between the bibliographic researches
and the theoretical and empiric ones.
Keywords
bibliographic researches; bibliographies; village and agriculture; »Sociologija sela« (Rural Sociology) journal
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99598
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Publication date:
21.9.2003.
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