Sociology and Space, No. 147-148, 2000.
Professional paper
Donja Grebaštica Settlement Developmental Conditions Caused by Urbanization and Modernization
Anđelina Svirčić
Abstract
The author displays the results of the case study of Donja Grebaštica settlement, carried out
in the summer 2000 within “The village in Transition” project. Donja Grebaštica belongs to
Šibensko-kninska County ant the town of Šibenik is the nearest bigger urban centre to which
it gravitates and to which it depends in every sense. It is a mixed and transformed type
settlement, and even today it is significantly influenced by the process of urbanization and
modernization. This process is manifested in decrease of purely agricultural population, and
in increase of population in other sectors. Since the mixed sector is a coupling of agricultural
and non-agricultural sector, making the inhabitants of rural areas so-called peasant-workers
(both peasants and workers), such transformation of rural areas and of types of activities
their population occupies with opens a new phase of rural social system, the so-called recomposition
phase. Donja Grebaštica is actually in this very phase. Today, tourism is an
important activity in this settlement, and it is expected to gain even greater importance in the
future and to be the sector the settlement’s development and progress will lean on. For that
reason, the main intention of this work was to examine general demographic and economic
characteristics of this settlement as well as its developmental potentials and perspectives.
The author concludes that difficult economic situation of Šibensko-kninska County, particularly
since the end of the Homeland War till today, has left deep traces in all fields of work
and living all over the County, and in Donja Grebaštica as well. Only the start of development
cycle will change this situation.
Keywords
case study; de-agrarization; urbanization; re-composition; traditional values; peasantra
Hrčak ID:
119983
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Publication date:
9.6.2000.
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