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Cultural Importance of Two Lifestyle Sub-Domains (Education & Professional Life and Intimate & Family Relationships) in Croatian Youth: Significance for Holistic Anthropological Research

In this study the construct of “the good life” is explored among upper secondary school seniors from two types of schools in four Croatian cities. The information collected through free-listing during the first phase of the field work was used to create a set of structured questions contained in the questionnaire, as a part of the survey in the second phase of data collection. The results of the study demonstrate the usefulness of utilizing cultural consensus theory in analyzing the structure and distribution of cultural knowledge about education, work, intimate and family relationships in a large and heterogeneous sample of students. The study also confirms the purposefulness of extending cultural consensus with residual agreement analysis for capturing differing cultural emphasis within the shared cultural knowledge of the entire group. Free-listing proved as an elegant ethnographic technique for eliciting operationally explicit measures of two lifestyle sub-domains. This study design represents a solid baseline for our continuing holistic anthropologic research involving bio-cultural modeling. However, in-depth interviewing is necessary for more comprehensive understanding of the cultural model of good life domain and its various sub-domains.

holistic anthropology; cultural consensus; residual agreement; good life; education & professional life; intimate & family relationships; youth; Croatia

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