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The Values of Traditional Culture in Social Development
Stipe Šuvar
Sažetak
Under traditional culture the author understands the culture of pre-industrial civilization in general. Starting from the view that values are acquired in the course of the socialization of the individual in childhood and youth, the author states that a great majority of Yugoslavia's population descend from rural communities where the
primary groups are generally still imbued with the values of traditional culture
or its rural projection In developing modern society and modern culture people
introduce into them the values and mentality of traditional society and culture.
The pre-industrial system of values affects the development of contemporary
Yugoslav society as a whole through slowing down change in production techniques
and acting as a break on the industrial organization of work. It also tends to
maintain a statical production, avoidance of production risks, and indifference
to innovations and to principles of work rationalization, discipline and efficiency.
In the pre-industrial society it was Kinship family, and the local community
that determined the life circle of the individual, while in modern society
he plays numerous in specialized institutions.
In contemporary Yugoslav society too adherence to the values of traditional
culture leads to such trends as extreme familiarism, clan and clique connections,
rule of informal groups, and subordination to paternalistic authority. There is a
general tendency to transfer the social system of the traditional local community
to functional institutions which — among other things — diminishes the role society management system which is being developed by Yugoslav contemporary
The author calls for systematic empirical investigations of the effect of
cultural values on social development, for these alone would make it possible to
establish with any, certainty the actual effect of the values of traditional culture.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
119324
URI
Datum izdavanja:
10.6.1970.
Posjeta: 1.506 *