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The System of Rural Resistance to Innovations
Vojislav Đurić
; Centar za političke studije i društveno-političko obrazovanje, Novi Sad, Srbija - Jugoslavija
Sažetak
Traditions and innovations are the two extremes which nowadays affect rural life. However,
in general, rural communities are believed to be more inclined to tradition than to
innovation, and to offer systematic resistance to innovations. If we take »conservativism«
as meaning such views and behaviour that tend to preserve what has been inherited, the n
there is ground for the assumption that traditionalism is above all a characteristic of the rural
society, and conservativism even its essential feature ..
Socio!ogy has not yet provided an answer to the question why conservativism is immanent
to the rural community. While some authors believe the reasons for this to lie in the peasant's
own personality, others see it in his social heritage, and others again in the system of
the rural social organization. However, it seems that rural conservativism is a product of
the interaction of numerous psychica! and social factors and that - in contra st to
deep-rooted prejudices - it is not autochtonous, inherited and general, although it is still a
marked feature of rural communities.
As regards the spread of innovations, rural conservativism acts in two ways: (a) it hampers
the circulation of information about innovations, and eb) prevents the actual spread and
adoption of innovations.
In conclusion the author analyses the mechanisms of the peasants' resistance to innovations
pointing to certain implications of the conflict between rural conservativism and innovations
and calling for amore thorough study of this conflict.
Ključne riječi
innovations; rural conservativism; factors of conservativism; mechanisms of peasants' resistance to innovations
Hrčak ID:
99592
URI
Datum izdavanja:
21.9.2003.
Posjeta: 1.172 *