Sociology and Space, No. 59-60, 1978.
Original scientific paper
Value Orientations and Policy in Relationship to Agricultural Production
Duško Sekulić
Abstract
The subject of this study is
determined by the answer to the
question, how the value system is
connected to and in which way it
influences the social subsystem
connected to agricultural production.
The author puts into the centre of
his analysis the objects of the plan,
i.e. that part of the plan which is
related to agriculture, in order to
establish in which degree the
realization of this plan is in
accordance with the value
orientations of the population
towards objects of agricultural
development. In this way it is,
namely, possible to establish the
potential area of conflicts.
The investigations serving as basis for
that analysis were carried out in 1975
in SR Slovenia under a wider project
titled »Values and planning of social
development«. The representative
sample of Slovenian population
inclused 2,014 of tested persons.
The asked questions were among
other things to answer the following:
1. value orientations relevant for
basical orientation in agricultural
production (and namely according to
which professions the tested persons
belonged to), 2. are there any
individual directions conditioning the
occurrence of various value
orientations, and 3. the dependence
between attitudes indication to the
existence of consistent forms which
are to be defined as »latent values«.
The conducted analysis proved that
in the opinion of the tested persons
there were going to be such changes
in the Slovenian economy before the
year 2000, which were to make SR
Slovenia an industrial, tourist and
agricultural republic. It will thus
become a republic with a highly
differentiated economy, the agriculture having, however, a
participation in the total economy.
It is, however, significant that the
number of those thinking that in the
year 2000 Slovenia will predominantly
be an agricultural country is increasing
in relation to the number of those
having such an opinion about the
present situation (70 persons in
relation to 51).
The analysis further shows that the
opinion of the majority of tested
persons (510 percent) about the
policy, which would be desirable and
whether preference should be given to
the development of industry or
agriculture, is that similar
conditions should be procurred for
the development of industry and
agriculture, while even 39.0 percent
think that agriculture should receive
more support than industry. It has
even been established that a large
number of tested persons favours the
introduction of specific measures
stimulating the development of
agriculture, including also measures
for helping the individual
agricultural sector. Attitudes towards
supporting the development of social
sector are more spread among those
persons whose source of income
depends less upon agriculture.
However, the opinion about the
priority of investment into the
development of social sector does
not dominate in any of the tested
control groups. The social sector has
the strongest support in the group
of deagrarianized persons, and the
relatively most fierce resistence in
the group of exclusive farmers. The author concludes that according
to his analysis it is obvious, that all
measures directed towards the
improvement of cooperation between
the social and private sectors in
agriculture, as well as those
measures expressively favouring the
individual sector, will meet with the support of agricultural as well as
non-agricultural population.
Oscillations are present only when
measures, which would directly
stimulate the social sector in favour
of the individual sector of agriculture,
are in question.
Keywords
Hrčak ID:
119092
URI
Publication date:
7.6.1978.
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