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From the Pitchfork to the Cafe (where young people gather and social changes in the villages of Vojvodina)
Zoja Karanović
Vesna Katić
Sažetak
The article describes the place and role of
young people in the cultural changes that
are taking place in rural communities. We
consider culture to be a synthetic
expression of social development and the
changes that have taken place in rural life
The transformed village, which we can call
"urbanized” (its antipode is the "ruralized"
city), is a new cultural environment for the
everyday life of young people, their
amusement and the way in which they
spend their leisure. It is through that part
of their social life and the various ways and
places in which they gather and meet that
the role and importance of youth in the
traditional and modern villages will be
observed.
An authentic, relatively isolated and
complete traditional culture has a very
strong integration function and it links the
member of a rural society into
a homogeneous, local group. Another very
important function of the traditional culture
is to renew and establish inherited values
and modes of behaviour. In this process
young people had an active role
participating in the reproduction and
continuation of the traditional heritage.
Today the rural youth are the group that is the
most open to changes in the way of life and
adopt new patterns of behaviour and modem
trends the most easily.
Deagrarization, a higher level of education
and marked socio-professional mobility characterize
the youth in the villages of Vojvodina.
Instead of traditional manners of gathering, today,
like their peers in the city, they frequent
cafšs, discos, pizzerias and amusement arcades.
The way in which young people use
their leisure shows the general direction in
which cultural change in Yugoslav villages
are taking place,
parallel with urbanization, imitating city standards
of living and accepting the
values of the mass consumer society.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
121744
URI
Datum izdavanja:
7.7.1988.
Posjeta: 996 *