Professional paper

Dictation of Factuality and Retreat of Normativity

Stjepan Kušar

Abstract

The author shows us how things which are factual givens in society, often in to a large degree on their own, but also through target action (advertising), imposes itself as »new norms« of behaviour and life, while the real norms (e.g. morals, religions, etc.) are withdrawn from human awareness. This is illustrated by the data relating to getting married, premarital sex and divorce in the Republic of Croatia. Reasons for this are sought in secularisation, pluralism, and individualism as authoritative forms in which contemporary culture understands and interprets itself. In the end, the author offers several practical recommendations for a marriage and family pastoral which tries to bear in mind the analysed situation: about intercession of the saving experience, building up of church communities, preparation for marriage and assistance for partners in matrimony.

Keywords

actuality; norm; marriage; family; secularization; pluralism; individualism

Hrčak ID:

31496

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/31496

Publication date:

22.12.1999.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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