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Social alienation of the Croatian Bunjevci in Vojvodina
Zlatko Šram
; Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
On a sample of the Croatian Bunjevci in Vojvodina we tried to establish whether social attitudes such as anomia, political distrust and interpersonal distrust correlated and formed the latent level of the social alienation structure of higher order. The second goal of our
research was the analysis of anomia, political distrust and interpersonal distrust as predictors of people’s interest in politics. The third goal of the research was to find out how sociodemographic characteristics and subjective evaluation of the standard of living were
correlated with the social alienation of the higher order factor. The research was carried out on a sample of 484 adult (over 18 years old) respondents; half of them said their nationality was Croatian and the other half said they were “only” Bunjevci. The examined variables
turned out to be single factor constructs, showing high reliability according to the Cronbach Alfa coefficient. The factor analysis was based on the correlation matrix for anomia, political distrust and interpersonal distrust and pointed to the superfactor of social alienation. A multiple regression equation showed a negative correlation between interest in politics and political distrust but a positive correlation between interest in politics and anomia and
interpersonal distrust. The correlation analysis showed that respondents with lower education and “only” Bunjevci felt more socially alienated. Poor subjective evaluation of the living standard was a better predictor of social alienation than sociodemographic variables. The results of the research have confirmed our starting hypothesis that distrust of society, politics and fellow humans in general, presents a rather homogenous and coherent construct.
The regression equation variables show that in the psychosocial background of the interest in politics there are at the same time the syndrome of “hostile anomia” and “political integration” in the sense of connection between political trust and interest in politics. The research has also confirmed the hypothesis that education and subjective assessment of the living standard correlate with social alienation; this fact points to the importance of the socioeconomic factor when we look at the isolation and different forms of manipulation in the political and social life of the Croatian Bunjevci in Vojvodina.
Ključne riječi
social alienation; anomia; political distrust; interpersonal distrust; interest in politics; Croatian Bunjevci; Vojvodina
Hrčak ID:
37742
URI
Datum izdavanja:
9.6.2009.
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