Promjene u vrijednosnim orijentacijama u Hrvatskoj
Changes in Value Orientations in Croatia

Author(s): Lino Veljak
Subject(s): Anthropology, Political behavior, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: Croatia; values; authoritarianism; ethnocentrism; individualism
Summary/Abstract: Based on the analysis of relevant research carried out in the fields of sociology, social psychology and political science and a comparison of the findings of earlier research with the findings of recent research, it can be concluded that – despite socialist modernization (initiated in 1945) and political liberalization that occurred at the end of the 1980s – the value orientations in the Croatian society were also determined by the inherited dominant patriarchal, authoritarian, ethnocentric and traditionalist outlook during the years of the breakup of Yugoslavia (which, in all likelihood, did not differ from the situation in other Yugoslav republics). Newer research confirms that the value orientations are still marked by a pre-modern social and value structure, but the primacy of collective traditionalist values (based on patriarchalism, authoritarianism and ethnocentrism, and additionally stimulated by processes of retraditionalisation) is complemented by the acceptance of liberalism in the economic sphere, as well as certain strengthening of elements of individualistic values of the developed Western countries; however, to a significant extent, individualism manifests itself in the form of radical (individual or family-tribal) egocentrism.

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