V članku razpravljamo o učinkih globalizacije na spremembo življenjskih potekov. Izhajamo iz teze, da individualizacija in destandardizacija življenjskega poteka terja od ljudi večjo pripravljenost ...za odgovorno načrtovanje življenja. Predvsem prehodi iz mladosti v odraslost postajajo nejasni in fleksibilni, kar spreminja tudi obdobje odraslosti. Posledično je odraslost izgubila mnogo svojih stabilnih struktur vlog in tradicionalnih pomenov ter postaja vse bolj psihološki pojav. Vse to pa seveda pomeni, da imajo zdaj odrasli opravka s ključnim identitetnim delom, prej rezerviranim za obdobje mladosti. Tu ima pomembno vlogo izobraževanje odraslih, ki je postavljeno pred nove izzive in naloge. Poleg izobraževanja za delo (dokvalifikacije, prekvalifikacije) ima izobraževanje odraslih vedno bolj pomembno socialno funkcijo (socialno in tehnološko vključevanje, pridobivanje novih socialnih kompetenc za razumevanje družbenih dogajanj) in posebej psihološko funkcijo (razvoj »identitetnih kapitalov«, potrebnih za suvereno odraslo življenje v sodobnih življenjskih razmerah).
This article focuses on the experiences and experiencing of disability, policies of self-understanding, and the life plans and aspirations of students with disabilities. The article draws on the ...results of a qualitative survey of students with disabilities taking courses in various faculties of the University of Ljubljana. The results show that students with disabilities are able to reshape their identities in a way that does not consist of the disability experienced, but is independent of it, and they are able to accept their disability as the reality of life without losing their own purpose of living and life plans. This experience is a significant part of the identity formation of people with disabilities, and the social experience of people with disabilities strengthens their selfhood while also producing new responses and challenges to contemporary issues of identity formation and identity policies.
The paper analyses public opinion towards immigrants in Slovenia, especially in terms of openness and acceptance. It begins by providing some key theoretical background on the topic and then draws on ...selected empirical data from the European Social Survey from a cross-temporal perspective. According to survey data, respondents in Slovenia have become more open towards immigrants in recent years. However, there are significant tensions between those who are more open to and those who oppose immigration. This divide between immigration supporters and opponents is a persistent social tension that characterises political orientations in Slovenia in general. Despite the shifting public opinion towards greater tolerance, right-wing populist politicians may still target and mobilise those who remain sceptical or hostile towards immigrants.
This article analyses changes occurring in the life courses of young people over the past 30 years, ever since we have been researching the position of young people in Slovenia. The article focuses ...on the newest generation of youth. Based on Slovenian Public Opinion survey (SJM) data, we have examined their attitude to life and satisfaction with their living circumstances, and placed these data in an international context. Ourfindings show the high level of satisfaction and optimism of the so-called »millennium generation«. Our data are compared to those collected by German and Canadian researchers who have made similar findings. The growth of optimism and satisfaction with life seems to be a global phenomenon that belongs to the new social and ideological construction of youth in the modern world. However, in this construction of youth attention should be paid to the growing inequalities between young people. The global economic and political crisis is increasing the inequality of opportunities, establishing new, completely excluded groups of young people.
In the article, we are presenting the research results about social position of the student youth, which were obtained in 2008 on the sample of 3008 students, and we are comparing them with selected ...data from a similar research, carried out in 1995 on a sample of 1829 students in Slovenia. We are analyzing results in light of contemporary conditions of uncertainty and risks, which are being significantly deepened and intensified by the current economic recession. We are reflecting on the increasing competitiveness and marketization of tertiary education, which is in contradiction not only with the enlightenment concept of knowledge production and dissemination, but also with the demands and absorptive capacity of the labour market. Therefore, we are asking ourselves whether students today are still an avant-garde of social progress and if so, whether new students' movements, similarly to those from 60s and 70s of the preceding century, are announcing a social change based on a new emerging ethics of duties towards oneself. Adapted from the source document.
Up until the 1990s, scholarly consideration of everyday life was long underestimated in the social sciences on the grounds that, while interesting, its themes were only marginal and did not clearly ...shed light on the macro-social structures and processes. Therefore, it is not unusual that these themes were typically studied by female scholars. Not because as women we would feel they are close to us, but because male scholars took on more »eminent« themes, leaving the former to us women. Themes like everyday life, life courses and the related sub-themes, such as the relationship between public and private life, changes in family and partner relations, intergenerational and gender relations, along with identities, discrimination, poverty, inequalities, health, dietary practices etc., have proven to be relevant and even priority themes in the social sciences today. This thematic issue presents analyses and reflections of 20 years’ work of the Centre for Social Psychology. Since the Centre’s very foundation in 1994, our research work has aimed to examine new contents, trends, activities, practices and institutions that belong to the microsphere of everyday life and the life course. In the two decades of its existence, the Centre’s researchers have created an important social scientific body of knowledge in sociological fields that had long been underestimated. This thematic issue proves that it is through research into everyday life practices that the »grand social narratives« are best revealed to the analytical gaze.
The article analyses and interprets changes in the Slovenian population's national identity in the last 20 years by using theoretical analysis, a conceptualisation of identity, and comparative data ...from public opinion polls. The comparative analysis of public opinion polls shows that the attitude to national identity is mostly conditional and not unconditional. It is related to the evaluation of the political and economic system, in particular the assessment of the degree of democracy, economic performance, social justice, social security and the level of egalitarianism. This means the respondents are ready to defend the real or symbolic achievements of Slovenianness only if and so far as this defence contributes to the provision of the basic conditions of those social achievements. This reveals that most respondents as well as the majority of the Slovenian population reject the predominantly emotional and unreflected idea of Slovenian identity and Slovenian country.
This article explores parental involvement in the educational trajectories of children in Europe. The analysis is embedded in the framework of the three dominant contemporary social processes that ...have been acknowledged as crucial factors for the educational and life trajectories of young people today, i.e. familialization, institutionalization, and individualization. The article draws on qualitative data gathered during interviews with parents of lower secondary school students in disadvantaged city areas within the research project, GOETE, in eight European countries. The analysis focuses on specific behavioral aspects that were identified as the most relevant in our empirical evidence: parental educational aspirations and future plans for their children, the role of parents in decision-making in educational transitions and trajectories, parental participation in the school, and parental support with schoolwork. The most striking finding is the persistent emphasis on individual responsibility for both students and parents in terms of education. Parents realize that the future of their child not only depends on the work of the teacher but also to a great and growing degree on parents as coeducators. This parental awareness results in a high level of confidence in the power of education, which is met by parental skepticism when they experience a lack of school support and distant parent-teacher relationships and communication.
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