Sociology and Space, No. 31-32, 1971.
Original scientific paper
Factors Promoting the Vocational and Spatial Mobility and Stabilization of Rural Youth
Edhem Dilić
Abstract
The author discusses certain basic social and psychological factors and the
structural premises which determine the social and vocational changes or stabilization
of rural youth.
Analysing the replies of 1,312 young farmers in the age group of 14—25, the
author has established that the most frequent reasons which prompt young people
to choose farming as a vocation include the following: devotion to agriculture as
a vocation, and to the rural community as a natural and social environment; satisfaction
with the family standard of living; the uncertainty to which young people
may be exposed during the transition period or during adjustment to a new job;
and realization that employment outside agriculture primarily requires appropriate
technical skills which young farmers'do not possess. On the other side, the factors
which promote agrarian and rural exodus are the following: hard work and disproportionate
income from agriculture; disturbed relations between the generations;
the belief that an overpopulated land cannot ensure a satisfactory standard of
living for the numerous descendants; dissatisfaction with local life and the living
situation in general; and dissatisfaction at the manner in which leisure can be
spent. The main structural premises leading to social vocational and spatial shifts
among rural youth are sex, marital status, and education.
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Hrčak ID:
119410
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Publication date:
10.6.1971.
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