Original scientific paper

SCEPTICAL GENERATION IN COUNTER-MODERNIZING CONTEXT

Inga Tomić-Koludrović ; Filozofski fakultet u Zadru, Zadar, Hrvatska

Abstract

The context of the development of the Croatian society after the decay of the socialist structures is burdened not only by the processes specific for all postsocialist countries such as the loss of the traditional securities or the renaissance of the “desintegrating capitalism” (Beck, 1994, 479), but with the specific post war processes. Since it results with the complex mediation between the individual and collective behaviours the young people of the nineties in Croatia have found themselves in an ambivalent situation. Finding themselves in the gap between the wish for security and the possibilities for development they can hardly develop self functioning ways of achieving the material, cultural and biographical resources. Sceptical towards their own future they primarily tend to provide for their everyday basic needs and declare themselves as nonpolitical, interested only in themselves, their private space and free time.

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Hrčak ID:

31975

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/31975

Publication date:

9.9.1999.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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