Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 75 No. 4, 2005.
Review article
Perspectives of the Interrelation between Solidarity, Trust and Voluntarity in the Croatian Society
Melanija Strika
; Croatian Academy of Engineering, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The interrelation between solidarity, trust and voluntarily in the Croatian society is reflected upon in the paper from a sociological perspective, employing the results of recent researches on this issue. The dispositivity of the citizens for trust, voluntarily and solidarity is a precondition for their participating in the development of the civil society from the level of local community to the macro-level of society, but it is also an important factor in the conception of life-long learning. In the paper we provide the reflections on trust as a key value for the active civic participation in all areas of their social life as well as on trust as a relation. In the complex contemporary societies, civic engagement in the sense of free association and various civil iniciatives, beside trust, requires knowledge and application of the conception of life-long learning as well as understanding, acceptance of the respective system of values, and readiness to take responsibility. A presupposition for this is the appropriate institutional definition, regulation and evaluation of the volunteer work that should be promulgated in the form of a Volunteer Work Act. However, in the Republic of Croatia a systematic solution of this issue has not been reached yet.
Keywords
solidarity; trust; voluntarily; civil society; civic engagement; micro-level of society; mezzo-level of society; macro-level of society; life-long learning; Volunteer Work Act
Hrčak ID:
24348
URI
Publication date:
27.6.2006.
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