Original scientific paper

Alternative Action in New Social Movements

Anđelko Milardović ; Institute for Migration and Nationalitiy, Zagreb

Abstract

The crisis in institutional organization has produced a number of alternative activities. The impossibility of satisfying needs and interests has caused alternative articulation by means of the new social movements. They represent the alternative from of activity based on spontaneity, directness, pluralism, autonomy and self-organization. New social movements pledge for the re-establishment of social control over politics (the political sphere) and the legal state. They have exposed alternative interests as forms of human absorption in ecological, peace, feminist and spiritual issues of contemporary living. Alternative interests tend towards a radical modification of everyday life. The bearers of interests act locally but reason globally. New social movements act locally developed in the Socialist Republics of Slovenia and Croatia. This is, in our opinion, the consequence of the level of economic development. Economic development, in turn, requires qualitative rather than quantitative living. In political institutions the views concerning new social movements are contradictory, varying from total rejection to compete acceptance. Our analysis has presented a number of attitudes, while results of public opinion research for example indicate opposed views concerning the activity and initiative of new social movements.

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Hrčak ID:

155554

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/155554

Publication date:

31.12.1988.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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