The Covid-19 pandemic has increased the fragility of organisations and institutions providing assistance to young people. While young people are facing uncertainties in their transitions, traditional ...safety nets have undergone a series of ruptures, and youth work providers are stretched between the needs and aspirations of young people and the scarce resources they have at disposal. Non-governmental associations in the field of youth provide a form of "out-of-school education managed by professional or voluntary youth workers that contributes to the development of young people" (European Commission, 2009, p. 11), often without a strong and structured support in tackling their professional challenges. This is especially pronounced in the cluster of 13 EU Member States, like Croatia, which, on average, have lower success rates in many fields (e.g. median income1 ). The public institutions of those countries demonstrate inadequate policy responses to youth vulnerabilities and requirements of the youth non-governmental sector. This paper focuses on the relations between experiences of youth workers within the organisational environment of youth organisations, with a focus on support received during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the analysis of respective national public policies. The semi-structured interviews conducted with eight youth experts and youth workers in 2021 focused on the institutional and policy framework and support structures for youth work during the pandemic. The analysis employed the Attride-Stirling (2001) model of thematic network. Five themes crucial for contemporary youth work in Croatia were identified: 1) prioritising youth; 2) cross-sectoral cooperation; 3) administrative and financial aspects 4) recognition of youth work, and 5) digitalisation and reinvention of youth work.
A successful democratic consolidation of post-socialist societies depends, among other things, on their citizens' political culture, younger generations included. Moreover, youth civic engagement ...today and in the future is a guarantee of the continuity and development of democracy, which means that scientists need to gain insight into young people's political culture. In this paper we look at political values, institutional trust and participation as relevant components of the civic political culture. The analysis is based on quantitative data collected in the empirical studies of Croatian youth, carried out between 1999 and 2013. Based on longitudinal study results, a downward trend is identified regarding selected political culture indicators: acceptance of liberal-democratic values, trust in social and political institutions, interest in politics and party preference. However, there is a simultaneous increase in participation in various types of organizations, especially political parties. The interpretation of established tendencies is placed in a broader context of an inherited democratic deficit, economic recession and social crisis. Current trends are both indicators and consequences of young people's inadequate political socialization as well as weaknesses of political institutions and various actors during the transition and consolidation period.
Living Like a Girl Vogel, Maria A; Arnell, Linda
08/2021, Volume:
3
eBook, Book
In recent decades, large-scale social changes have taken place
in Europe. Ranging from neoliberal social policies to globalization
and the growth of EU, these changes have significantly affected the
...conditions in which girls shape their lives. Living Like a
Girl explores the relationship between changing social
conditions and girls' agency, with a particular focus on social
services such as school programs and compulsory institutional care.
The contributions in this collected volume seek to expand our
understanding of contemporary European girlhood by demonstrating
how social problems are managed in different cultural contexts,
political and social systems.
Rad se bavi utjecajem sociodemografskih i društvenih faktora na migracijske aspiracije mladih u Hrvatskoj u 2012. i 2018. godini te komparacijom migracijskih aspiracija mladih iz Hrvatske s ...migracijskim aspiracijama mladih u 2018. godini iz 9 zemalja jugoistočne Europe (Albanija, Bosna i Hercegovina, Bugarska, Crna Gora, Kosovo, Rumunjska, Sjeverna Makedonija, Slovenija i Srbija). Prezentirani nalazi rezultat su projekta koje je provela Zaklada Friedrich Ebert u navedenim zemljama. Regresijskim modelom na uzorku mladih u 2012. u Hrvatskoj pokazano je da su pojedine sociodemografske karakteristike (dob, obrazovanje, tip naselja te planiranje izvanbračne veze) najvažniji prediktori migracijskih aspiracija. U 2018. godini uz dob, migracijske aspiracije iskazuju ispitanici prema svim stupnjevima obrazovanja te mladi iz manjih gradova. Stavovi mladih prema budućnosti Hrvatske relativno su konzistentni; pokazuje se da su 2012. odlasku bili najskloniji oni koji su gospodarsku situaciju u Hrvatsku vidjeli jednakom ili lošijom, dok su u 2018. godini aspiracije pokazivali mladi koji su budućnost hrvatskog društva percipirali lošijom. Nezadovoljstvo stanjem demokracije u 2018. bilo je statistički značajno. Ukupno gledano, mladi iz svih zemalja jugoistočne Europe dominantno iskazuju migracijske aspiracije zbog želje za poboljšanjem životnog standarda, viših plaća i boljih mogućnosti zapošljavanja, što je osobito prisutno u Bosni i Hercegovini, Rumunjskoj i Sjevernoj Makedoniji. Bolje obrazovanje u znatno manjoj mjeri glavni je motiv za preseljenje u drugu zemlju . U regresijskom modelu najkonzistentnijim prediktorom pokazao se pogled na budućnost društva uz ostale prediktore koji se razlikuju s obzirom na analizirane zemlje.
Young women are experiencing many challenges that accompany their way to adulthood and the process of taking on permanent social roles, which is primarily influenced by socially conditioned ...circumstances. These circumstances often determine the pace and quality of joining the world of adults; individual life choices take place within the framework of an existing social structure and socioeconomic as well as sociocultural defaults, which determine the opportunities and resources available to young people (Jarvis 2009; Ilišin and Spajić Vrkaš 2017). In the past few decades, the youth in Europe have been drifting, at an increasing rate, from the transition that
Primjenjujući sociološku perspektivu, ovaj se rad bavi analizom rizičnih ponašanja i njihovom povezanošću s nekim sociodemografskim obilježjima mladih u Hrvatskoj. Pritom se koriste dva teorijska ...pristupa. Prvi je klasni, odnosno socioekonomski pristup koji položaj u društvenoj strukturi smatra važnom odrednicom odabira ponašanja. Drugim se pristupom rizična ponašanja promatraju u kontekstu sociokulturnih faktora, specifično rodne dimenzije. Oba pristupa se nastoji teorijski približiti korištenjem Bourdieuova koncepta habitusa. Rezultati empirijskog istraživanja mladih ukazuju na konzistentnu prisutnost rodnih razlika pri čemu se one mogu pripisati kulturi muškosti koja rodno odreðuje rizična ponašanja poput pušenja, pijenja alkohola i konzumacije lakih droga te ostalih oblika devijantnih ponašanja. Socioekonomski status je značajno povezan s konzumacijom alkohola i nekim devijacijama u ponašanju, ali ta je povezanost različitog predznaka. Socioekonomski status značajno je pozitivno povezan s iskustvom konzumacije alkohola i s iskustvom (auto)destruktivnih ponašanja, dok je negativno i značajno povezan s ponašanjima koja se mogu označiti devijantnima u kontekstu školovanja. Ovaj rad temelji se na kvantitativnom istraživanju mladih provedenom 2018. godine na uzorku od 1500 ispitanika u dobi od 14 do 29 godina iz cijele Hrvatske.
Croatia does not score well in the human development index, rate of employment, or development of the high tech sector -- to mention only a few indicators that hinder good prospects for improvement. ...Also, Croatian high school students are at the bottom of European rankings on performance in science and mathematics and their interest in career in science is declining. Croatia needs more educated people, especially in the area of science and technology, and this can be achieved only if the youth become interested in science at an early age. Thus, science fair competitions are of an utmost importance for development of Croatia. This paper aims at investigating a relation of the Croatian counties' development index and their students' participation rates in the science fair competitions. This is done by including two development indexes in search for the relation with the counties' participation rates in biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics competition, and with a reference to a previous research on astronomy competition. As is revealed, there is a growing trend of interconnection of the development index and participation rates at science competitions in all disciplines. Adapted from the source document.
The question of what comes next creates the biggest concern for junior scientists. Although the reasons are manifold, the main problem is a scarcity of positions at the group-leader level and above, ...which means that few aspiring young scientists will achieve a tenured position. Tan and Potocnik believe communication is the key ot success. Good communication helps not only to obtain additional skills and experience, but also to share information and expertise with those who pursue activities outside research.
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