Original scientific paper

The leisure of young peasants

Vlasta Ilišin

Abstract

The leisure of young peasants is analysed
on the basis of empirical data gathered in
Croatia in 1986, as part of the
macroproject The Position, Consdousnes
and Behaviour of the Young Generation in
Yugoslavia. The leisure of young peasants
is an important segment of the project,
primarily because it is one of the elements
of their everyday life that causes most
dissatisfaction with village life as a whole.
On one side, young peasants have less
leisure than their employed and
unemployed peers, and on the other hand
they partidpate much less in almost all the
activities researched. It is indicative and
was expeded that the only above-average
leisure activity of young peasants —
besides participation in games of chance
and attending sports events — is listening
to folk music. This determines the so-called
rural cultural pattern in which young
peasants recognize themselves best
(contrary to the elite and urban cultural
patterns). The overall analysis of
tendencies shows that the deprivileged
character of young peasants in the
deprivileged chartacter of young peasants
in the use of leisure mostly stems from
limitations imposed by the insufficient
cultural offer in rural environments. An
important role is also played by factors of
sodalization: life in the rural environment
and a lower average education.

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Hrčak ID:

119894

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/119894

Publication date:

7.12.1990.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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