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Regionálna kultúra v individualistickom kontexte
Regional Culture in the Individualistic Context

Author(s): Mária Suríková
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Sociologický ústav - Slovenská akadémia vied
Keywords: Individualism; regional culture; subjectivisation; symbolization; isolation

Summary/Abstract: Regional Culture in the Individualistic Context. The article analyses the regional culture as a value-regulatory system attribute of a social life in a region comprehended rather as a model than a concrete category. The main subject of the study is individualization of the regional culture, which causes subjectivisation of its values and normative contents and results in its internal pluralisation and relativisation, in weakening of its regulatory and organizational potential, but also in creative innovations or modifications of elements of the regional culture. The analysis is focused on the individualistic changes in a regional cultural memory, the economical functions of the region and the processes of a global cultural diffusion. Sociológia 2008, Vol. 40 (No. 5: 417-434)

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 417-434
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Slovak