Sociology and Space, No. 25, 1969.
Original scientific paper
The Youth in Rural Communities
Edhem Dilić
Abstract
Apart from the family, it is the rural community that as the natural and
social environment of rural youth, provides the main basis for the relations, activity
and satisfaction of living requirements of young pepole. In this context a study
of the youth — rural community relationship can supply useful information on
the degree of the personal and social adjustment of young people to the given conditions
of rural life, on the social position of the youth as a separate social group,
etc.
The author has limited his study to three aspects of the problem he is concerned
with: the general attitude of young people towards the rural way of life;
the basic problems and difficulties of the youth and their influence on developments
in the rural community; and1 the main trends and directions of spatial mobility.
The study is based on the results obtained by interviewing 1,713 persons in the
age group of 14—25 who live and work on private smallholdings, and by an enquiry
among 1,922 pupils of the eighth form of elementary school in several villages.
In the view of the author the results of the investigation point to at least two
basic conclusions. First, that young people — in contrast to traditionally held
views — are to a considerable degree ’subjectively' attached to the rural community,
and this psychological atachment determines largely their atitude towards
their environment. Secondly, that certain traditions, on the one hand and the
inadequacy or non-existence of suitable institutional centres for organized activity
of young people on the other, prevent the youth as a coherent social group from
having any major influence on developments within the community.
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Hrčak ID:
119029
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Publication date:
10.9.1969.
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