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Skeptična generacija u protumodernizacijskom kontekstu
SCEPTICAL GENERATION IN COUNTER-MODERNIZING CONTEXT

Author(s): Inga Tomić-Koludrović
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu

Summary/Abstract: The context of the development of the Croatian society after the decay of the socialist structures is burdened not only by the processes specific for all postsocialist countries such as the loss of the traditional securities or the renaissance of the “desintegrating capitalism” (Beck, 1994, 479), but with the specific post war processes. Since it results with the complex mediation between the individual and collective behaviours the young people of the nineties in Croatia have found themselves in an ambivalent situation. Finding themselves in the gap between the wish for security and the possibilities for development they can hardly develop self functioning ways of achieving the material, cultural and biographical resources. Sceptical towards their own future they primarily tend to provide for their everyday basic needs and declare themselves as nonpolitical, interested only in themselves, their private space and free time.

  • Issue Year: XXXVI/1999
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 175-193
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Croatian