Sociology and Space, No. 101-102, 1988.
Original scientific paper
The Youth of Jalovik How They See Their Own Position
Maja Korać
Abstract
The article presents the results of a study of
the youth of Jalovik and their opinion about
their own position. It shows the changed attitude
of young people towards possibilities
that are offered to them if they remain in the
village or return to it after they finish their
schooling. It oould be said that the last decade
of social change has had a great influence and
that today the rural youth objectively and realistically
evaluate the favourable aspects of
remaining linked to a certain degree to their
home and the parental farm. This, however,
does not mean that most young people in Jalovik
see a better future exclusively in farming.
Their main objective is to be
peasant-workers. However, their attitude to
their own future is not accompanied by a suitable
and necessary degree of activity towards
existing conditions in the local community, or
their own families. The
passive and inactive behaviour of young people
in social and cultural life is the
consequence of their recognition of the basic
problems of village life (insecurity of income
in agriculture, unfavourable
economic policy on the village), and their
consciousness that such problems cannot be
solved in the local community, because that
is not where they were created.
Besides mistrust of socio-political
organizations and the opinion that their role in
the village is only formal, that is one of the
reasons for their inactivity. Another reason
why today’s rural youth is passive is because
they are still under the
influence of the traditional relations and
traditional values of the rural environment,
with which they are still closely intergrated.
This is why they are not capable of
completely understanding their marginal
position in the local community.
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Hrčak ID:
121742
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Publication date:
7.7.1988.
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