Naslov
Youth Revisited: Post-Transitional Social Development Potential of Youth in Croatia

Autori
Tomić-Koludrović, Inga ; Petrić, Mirko ; Zdravković, Željka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
20 years after: problems and prospects of countries of former Yugoslavia / - Maribor : The Center for the Study of Post-Yugoslav societies (CEPYUS), Univerza v Mariboru, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2011, 35-35

Skup
20 years after: problems and prospects of countries of former Yugoslavia

Mjesto i datum
Maribor, Slovenija, 01.12.2011. - 02.12.2011

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
youth; Croatian society; development potential; openness; tolerance; mobility.

Sažetak
The paper is based on the results of a representative survey of Croatian population carried out in 2010. The findings discussed relate to the attitudes and values of youth population, and the interpretation approaches the obtained data as an indicator of social development potential. The discussion of research results is carried out in a comparative perspective, i.e. in relation to the findings and interpretations of the large-scale surveys of youth carried out in the second half of the 1980s in the former Yugoslavia. The results of these surveys relating to the westernmost republic of the former Yugoslavia were interpreted by Ule (1989) as a potential for the modernization of Slovenian society. The survey carried out in 2010 approached Croatian youth from a perspective that represents an adaptation of the elements of Florida’s indices of creative development, based on Inglehart-style survey of values. The aspects primarily in focus were those connected to tolerance, mobility and work practices. The results obtained indicate that the segment of the Croatian population between 19 and 30 years of age is more tolerant, mobile and open to difference from the older age groups, with the significant exception of generalized trust. Strictly speaking, the findings are not comparable to those of the youth surveys carried out in the second half of the 1980s, but nevertheless indicate a certain parallelism in the potential to perceive post-transitional Croatian youth as actors of social development in a new socio-economic framework.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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