Socialno omrežje kot okvir upravljanja s kakovostjo življenja in spremembe v Sloveniji med letoma 1987 in 2002
Social Networks as a Framework for Managing the Quality of Life and the Social Changes between 1987 and 2002

Summary/Abstract: Community networks and personal networks of social support are seen as two different frameworks allowing individuals to manage the quality of their life; the most relevant functions of social networks are an exchange of goods and services, information processing and problem solving. We argue that during the Slovenian 'transition' the community networks proved much less responsive than the networks of social support. For evidence, a number of findings by Slovenian analysts are summarized and some empirical data evaluated. A number of explanatory factors is pointed out and some particular social circumstances identified, which proved to have been more favorably inclined to the development of personal networks of social support and also articulation and solving of individual problems rather than those of communities.

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