Original scientific paper
The Relationship of the Youth toward Eco-issues and the Eco-movement
Srećko Mihailović
; Institute for Social Science, Beograd
Abstract
According to the findings of a survey carried out in the spring of 1989, there is a tendency among the youth of Serbia toward the opinion that the solving of ecological issues can indeed occur outside of the organizational framework and programs of those organizations which existed at the time of research. It is a matter of specific ecological anti-institutionalism. The youth see themselves and their organizations as the bearers of ecological action in contrast to those organizations and institutions which are in the epicentre of the political system.
As far as the methods of ecological action are concerned, the youth, form the point of view of efficiency as well as suitability, give advantage to repressive action, but also to the forming of public opinion and the citizens’ ecological awareness.
Three out of five respondents have favorable opinions about the ecological movement, one in every four has a negative one, while one sixth has given no answer.
Regarding ecological practice three quarters of the respondents are interested, one sixth are hesitant and only one of fourteen respondents expresses no interest for participation in solving eco-problems.
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Hrčak ID:
155141
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Publication date:
30.6.1991.
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