Original scientific paper

Following the Media and Attitude Towards Values

Mirko Juraj Mataušić ; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivan Rimac ; Institute of Social Science «Ivo Pilar», Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The observed tendency towards informing about political events with the citizens of different age corresponds with other results obtained in other studies, which deal with the changes in the structures of political attitudes and with the generations that came through the political socialisation in the era of socialism and the generations that have been socialised after the establishment of the political multi-party system.
Older respondents show more interest in politics, get more often informed on political events via the media, but also pay more trust in the institutions of the political system. All this outlines the experience of the political system in a non-differentiated form, without the independent media, typical for the socialistic social system, but also present, to a large extent, in the multi-party system. Therefore the connection between following the media and the frequency of attending liturgies is of no surprise. On the other hand, estrangement of younger generations from politics, but also from the media, is a consequence of the war as well as of a slow process of detachment of politics from the economic part of everyday life.

Keywords

the mass media; values; trust; society

Hrčak ID:

31173

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/31173

Publication date:

15.11.2000.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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