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Some Socio-political Views of Rural Youth
Mladen Zvonarević
Sažetak
The general picture obtained from an investigation among young people
in rural districts in. Croatia is undoubtedly favourable and highly promising. It
appears that young people take a positive attitude to the social system in which
they are growing up, accept the system of self-management, and do not seek to
escape from the present reality. This attitude in itself is an indication of their
optimism and realism.
Further, the picture of the religious inclinations of young people in rural
districts, where religious traditions have particularly deep roots, appears to be
more favourable than was anticipated. This is to be attributed to the influences
— although indirect and unplanned — of the wider social community in which
we all live.
The conflict between the generations, though obviously present, is less
pronounced in rural areas than in towns. The main reason for this is to be found
in the fact that rural communities are based on comparatively more stable social
relations. This also makes it easier for their younger generations to merge with
the existing social pattern without the major upheavals that mark urban
communities.
The level of education appears to play a very important role in approaching
almost every question; in fact it may be said that the more educated the youth,
the more sensitive they seem to be to what is happening in society (note the
fact that the best educated section of modem youth, i. e. students, is at the same
time its most sensitive and flexible part).
A special problem arises from the desire of many young people to leave the
farms and move to town. This trend is pregnant with various social dangers and
can only be checked by raising rural communities to a higher and more modem
level which would enable their younger members to satisfy their legitimate
requirements and demands in the country.
The fact that there are many young people who have no definite views on
some of the vital questions of the country’s development (e. g. the system of
self-management) points to the need for organized large-scale social activity
among the young (and not only among them) in order to connect them with
current social processes more closely than this is the case at present.
There also exist considerable differences between male and female youth:
on almost all questions young girls are less informed and engaged than boys.
However, these differences arise from a traditional situation which still survives
in rural regions and is not likely to be changed for some time to come.
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Hrčak ID:
118752
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Datum izdavanja:
24.12.1968.
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