Sociology and Space, No. 21, 1968.
Review article
FORMS OF CO-OPERATION IN RURAL COMMUNITIES
Matija Golob
Abstract
Investigations carried out for a monographic study of the rural settlement
RADSELO have revealed many characteristic situations and forms of co-operation.
Important traditional co-operative relations being still in existence alongside with
modern co-operative relations, the former have been dealt with in this study in
some detail. The study is supplemented by a detailed description both of the
traditional co-operative relations (as regards both Yugoslav legal regulations since
the liberation and the functional role of the traditional co-operative in rural communities)
and of other forms of co-operation in the village. In describing the latter,
and especially the most recent ones, the authors point to the interconnections and
the. determinants of the position of Radselo in both space and time (which are
favourable in view of the village's proximity to several centres); to demographic
trends; the changes emerging in the social structure; »social systems«; property
structure; employment; the structure of the family and traditions; etc., and try
to find in them suitable indicators.
The essential idea of the monographic study on Radselo is to compare the
dynamic component, which is reflected in the amount of concrete co-operative
relations, with the dynamic component which is reflected in various innovations.
For comparison, and »index of innovations in co-operation« is used to show what
degree of intensity was necessary in concrete co-operative relations in order that
each of the three main groups of rural farms of households (agricultural, part-
-time, and non-agricultural) could achieve a certain number of innovations (on the
farm, in the household, and in communal services) over the last ten years.
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121362
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Publication date:
9.7.1968.
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