Original scientific paper

Social Mobility and the Rural Youth

Mladen Stojanov

Abstract

Rural youth migrations have been
exceedingly great during the last three
decades. The village has been brought to
demographic collapse. Efforts to explain
migrations only in economic terms are
partly acceptable, since leaving the village
did not bring a very large number of
migrants either economic or social
promotion.
In this article we examine possibilities for
studying migration in the light of
socialization processes among the rural
youth. Socialization condenses the
economic and noneconomic factors
stimulating migration, and reflects the
realities and errors of a community.
The small numbers of rural youth include
almost no peasant youth. Young peasants
disappeared in two ways: (1) physically,
and (2) through a loss of social and cultural
identity. The values the rural youth identify
and integrate with as a group are the
patterns and values of the urban society.
Yhe rural youth are integrated with all the
rest of the young population in the
measure to which such an integration
exists at all.

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Hrčak ID:

121749

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/121749

Publication date:

7.7.1988.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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