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YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY: DIFFERENT YET THE SAME

Anči Leburić ; Faculty of Philosophy, Zadar
Inga Tomić-Koludrović ; Faculty of Philosophy, Zadar

Abstract

Based upon recent sociological theses, aspects of social behaviour
of Croatian youth and their relationship with themselves
and the society around them were researched. The manner
in which war has changed the communication of young people,
their "image of themselves" and their social position in Croatia
were analysed as well. The final result would be to outline an understanding
of the actual Croatian society and its future development.
Presented here is the most interesting portion of the results
of the empirical sociological research, whose survey was performed
in 1994 with a sample of 228 young people from Dalmatia.
The empirical results showa tendency for young people to free
themselves of traditional bonds with a decrease in familiai and social
control in the new milieu. At the same time the process of individualisation
is the most prevalent of all the postindustrial elements.
However, our young people are not insecure, jeopardised
or unhappy. They are more concerned with the general underdevelopment
in society as one of the effects of war. In fact, the factors
of postmodernization have not made as great an impact on
youth as the mechanisms of war, since the social impact of war to
a greater extent created a consciousness that their position is
equal to that of aduits. It is possible to make the general conclusion
that Croatian youth still exist in relation to the "end" of industrial
modernism with mild signs of postindustrial modernism.

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Hrčak ID:

31794

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/31794

Publication date:

1.9.1996.

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