Naslov
Modernization processes in the context of institutionally embedded neoliberalism: a theoretical perspective on post-transitional Croatia

Autori
Petric, Mirko ; Tomic-Koludrovic, Inga

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

Izvornik
13th Conference of the European Sociological Association - (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities / Welz, Frank - Atena : European Sociological Association (ESA), 2017, 458-458

Skup
13th Conference of the European Sociological Association - (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities

Mjesto i datum
Atena, Grčka, 29.08.2017. - 01.09.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
modernization theories, post-transitional society, Croatia

Sažetak
This paper discusses the characteristics of modernization processes taking place in the specific social context of a post-transitional country. The tenets of new modernization theories (Beck, Giddens, Touraine, Eisenstadt, Inglehart-Welzel) are applied to explain the trends evolving in what has been described as the “hybrid society” of Croatia after its “post- socialist transformation”. The starting point of the discussion is the hypothesis according to which two modernization processes (those associated with “first” and “second” modernity) were simultaneously at work in Croatian society during the period of post-socialist transition (Tomic-Koludrovic, 2000). In a context most decisively marked by the 1990s war of independence and post-2008 economic crisis, “first” modernity trends were increasingly pushing out those associated with "second modernity", i.e. with a previously more pronounced general social reflexivity. Added to this in the most recent period should be “regressive modernity” (Nachtwey, 2016), characteristic of the pan-European “society of descent”, as well as a further complication represented by the clash of by now firmly institutionally embedded neoliberalism and continued manifestations of the “egalitarian syndrome”, theoretically postulated by Zupanov in the late socialist period. The paper aims to show the usefulness of a theoretical perspective based on new modernization theories in interpreting the seemingly contradictory results of recent empirical studies of the post- transitional Croatian society. Examples of empirical research, suggesting that what is at stake in this case is a “non-linear modernization”, characterized by “partial acquisition of modernization values”, are also provided.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

Napomena
Rad je pripremljen u okviru projekta "Relacijski rodni odnosi u Hrvatskoj: modernizacijske i razvojne perspektive (GENMOD)", koji pod šifrom 6010 financira Hrvatska zaklada za znanost.

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