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Uloga ideologije u izgradnji građanskih društvenih odnosa
The Role of Ideology in Building Civic Social Relations

Author(s): Šefik Baraković
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Political Theory, Civil Society, Sociology, Politics and society, Social Theory
Published by: Univerzitet u Sarajevu
Keywords: civic ideology; civic development; culture; liberalism; postliberalism; irrationality; dominant affinities; civil continuity; national identity

Summary/Abstract: Ideology always implies a certain accepting and morality standards for things, phenomena and relationships, in addition to their evaluation and guidance in a certain direction by the agents. The agents decide to which direction they should conveniently and productively use that relation and orient it thus making possible giving appropriate importance to emerging goals and values. Through following respectable principles for achieving panned results, the ideology makes concrete structure for regulating relations. As established by a respectable and reliable theory, it is inseparable from the very insisting on consensus with persuasion as the principle. The civic ideology indeed follows the civic development, but also creates it! Keeping in mind its internal processes of devising civic relations and development, the research of ideology affects the area of concrete production, construction and enabling of civic relations. Therefore, the research attention is directed at the phenomenon if ideology that equally examines aspects that drive the ideology; aspects which ideology affirms, articulates and embodies while working on making the conjunction between the virtual and real, and balancing the social and civic and potentially achievable interest and goals. As the civic ideology has general tendency to specifically participate in the building of civic relations, the need for enlightening aspects and courses through which it demonstrates the civic code, using the fact that “history does not follow human achievements” as the starting point. Civic achievements approved by the satisfaction of power and implemented influence of civic structures also determine ideology, not just through the specified determining. Such determining also turns to be a supplement to the spiritual and political structure, culture’s establishment, and historical traditions, ethnic or national identity.

  • Issue Year: LVI/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 17-38
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Bosnian