Original scientific paper

THE FAMILY AND DISORDERS OF SOCIAL CONTEXT

Antun Mijatović ; Institute for Applied Social Research, Zagreb

Abstract

The disorders of social context as a rule have consequences for
the family, especially for those families that are heterogeneous on
all bases. National, religious, racial and other features (regional,
party membership etc.) in mixed and intermixed marriages have
been selected for this research as significant indicators through
which these disorders are manifested with lesser or greater
consequences. Disorders of social context can appear as a result
of many different reasons, one of them being war, the threat of
war, direct or indirect war danger or war situations of different intensity.
The author examines the explicit and implicit consequences
of these states caused by the disorders of social context. For
indicators of such disorders the author selected mixed marriages
which used to form, by the end of the eighties, over a quarter of
all marriages contracted in Croatia per year. Methodologically,
mixed marriages as indicators of dlsorders in social context are
an extraordinary research innovation, since marriages in general,
and especially mixed marriages can be considered as indicators
with both positive and negative tendencies (marriage and divorce).
The conclusions drawn by the author as the result of analysis
of numerous data and tables are convincing and much more complex
than the author choses to comment upon. He stresses that
the display of numerous data had priority over extensive commentary
and minute presentation of possible meaning of specific data,
because in interpreting the factors of disorder of social context
one might make an error which could have grave consequences
on such disorders. The results of research indicate beyond doubt
that multicultural, rnultlcontesslonal, multinational societies have
perceptible indicators in social context. Croatia as a multicultural
and multinational state in these but in many other indicators as
well must recognize numerous elements for defining its population
policy and developmental measures that could sustain demographic
development. Unfortunately, the author concludes, Croatian
science is insufficient in research which could clarify numerous
unknowns of the family in multicultural social complexes, and
especially of the contemporary Croatian family within the context
of the country's new reality.

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Hrčak ID:

32347

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/32347

Publication date:

1.7.1995.

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