Original scientific paper
Social Fragmentation
Vjeran Katunarić
; Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb
Abstract
Social fragmentation is a contemporary aspect of social disintegration. It is perpetuated through systematic re-integration of society and in industrialized societies is controlled by ruling classes. The result of this process is a consolidation of new types of basic groups which differ from a »primary« group type of classical sociological tradition in as much as the new types are both intimate and strategic in character. Large social groups, such as class and nation, as well as the »primary» groups, i. e. family, are of secondary importance.
Origins of social fragmentation, as well as the modes of operation of basic groups in the system, are essentially different in capitalistic and socialist societies.
Differences can be explained through the methods of functioning of central institutions — State, Church & Unions — the same being responsible for the systematic preservation of large groups (class, nation), i. e. of the whole society as a system (state).
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155846
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Publication date:
31.12.1983.
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