Youth and Legitimacy of Social Order in Serbia: Thinking and Acting in the Direction of Emigration Cover Image

Mladi i legitimnost društvenog poretka u Srbiji: razmišljanja i delanja u pravcu emigracije
Youth and Legitimacy of Social Order in Serbia: Thinking and Acting in the Direction of Emigration

Author(s): Irena Petrović, Dušan Mojić
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Sociološko naučno društvo Srbije
Keywords: youth; Serbia; emigration; social order legitimacy

Summary/Abstract: The influence of different characteristics of youth in Serbia (aged 19 to 35 years) on thinking and acting in the direction of emigration have been analyzed in the paper. The fact that young people’s emigration considering and/or planning is very present even one decade after the unblocked postsocialist transformation of Serbian society testifies for low legitimacy of the social order in the perception of youth, as well as their poor integration in the society. The basis for this de-legitimization of the social order can be mainly found in the hardships of the transition from education to employment and losing trust in education as the key factor of youth’s social promotion.

  • Issue Year: 55/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 229-244
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian