Centre for Peace Studies (CPS) ( Centar za mirovne studije – CMS) falls under the broader corpus of examples of youth activation where organisation has used its work to highlight the existence of a ...‘critical mass’ among youth in Croatia. This ethnographic research deals with social activism through attempts to make up for (according to the actors) inefficient state care for marginalised groups, in this specific case migrants. Participatory observation method and semi-structured interviews provided us with an in-depth insight into the activities of the organisation, but also into the specific motives, values and norms of young people gathered around the organisation. The basic research questions refer to the specific sets of motives of young people involved in volunteering and their attitude towards their own culture and cultural heritage as an indicator of the strategy of constructing their own identity and attitudes towards the ‘other’.
Survival Sex (Work) in Croatia Krnić, Rašeljka; Štojs Brajković, Tihana; Antić, Marija
Politička misao,
12/2023, Volume:
60, Issue:
4
Journal Article, Paper
Peer reviewed
Open access
This paper explores experiences of persons engaging in survival sex in Croatia. While research on commercial sex in Croatia is generally scarce, there is an absence of qualitative inquires into the ...life stories and experiences of per sons selling sexual services for subsistence needs. The study is grounded in a thematic analysis of interviews conducted with adult persons engaging in survival sex across the three largest Croatian cities. It examines their life stories marked by difficult childhood and drug use, and explores the conditions and risks associated with their engagement in survival sex. It also discusses agency in this specific setting, pointing at possible policy implications. In conclusion, the authors advocate for a more nuanced understanding of agency in this context and call for future research to be directed towards a more in-depth exploration of this issue.
During the seventies and up to the mid-eighties, the Birmingham School subculture theory concept dominated the sociological study of the connectedness of young people, style and musical taste. ...However, some authors started to question some of the basic postulates of the than understanding of subcultures in the early eighties. Even though the term "post-subcultural" had been used by Chambers as early as 1987, it was introduced into the subcultural discourse by Polhemus (1996) and Muggleton (1997) in the mid-nineties. "Post-subcultural 899 theories" is a joint name for an entire spectrum of concepts and theories from the early nineties that still study similar phenomena of young people's gatherings, but no longer insist on the conclusions and the terminological apparatus of the subcultural concept. Along with numerous areas of critique relating to the problem of class analysis, the question of resistance, the disregard of local context, the role of media, etc., one of the most significant of them relates to the problem of neglecting the role of women in subcultural spaces, and the one-dimensional understanding of gender roles and the nature of sexuality. Post-subcultural studies bring a far greater number of analyses that focus on the role of women in subcultural practices and cultural production, and pose the questions of female experience and female perspective of subcultural experience. The studies of various electronic music scenes revealed rave culture as a distinctive subcultural space, where traditional gender roles, as well as the meaning of sexuality are redefined through altered communication and interaction practices. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
U ovom spekulativnom članku stanovanje se istražuje iz perspektive doma kao koncepta koji je nedovoljno zastupljen u sociološkim istraživanjima. Ulaskom istraživanja u stambeni prostor ne ostavljamo ...nužno stambene studije i sociologiju stanovanja po strani, jer to su područja neodvojiva od rasprave o stanovanju, no tek prelaskom kućnog praga možemo raspravljati o svakodnevici prebivanja, o različitim izborima i ostvarenju unutar stana kroz sociokulturne aspekte kao što su memorija, privatnost, emocije, nostalgija, komfor, rituali i dizajn. Fokus je rada na teorijskim konceptualizacijama prostora i mjesta doma, svakodnevnice i ordinarnosti stanovanja. Polazeći od pretpostavke da korištenje prostora doma kao i prakse stanovanja ovise o društvenim i kulturnim karakteristikama, u ovom radu predlažemo definiranje kulture stanovanja kao istraživačkog koncepta čiji fokus je na domu kao sociokulturnoj praksi stanovanja. Pod kulturom stanovanja kao sociološkom konceptu podrazumijevamo obitavanje kao svakodnevnu praksu u kojoj se kroz materijalnu formu, simbolički i kulturni kapital formira i realizira dom kao sjecište identiteta, odnosa i značenja.
Defining a desirable direction for local development is a complex process. A fundamental problem is finding goals and solutions acceptable to the majority of stakeholders. The planning of local ...development in residential areas that have experienced a proliferation of second home housing faces an even greater challenge. Meeting development aspirations in these areas requires a complex effort as temporary residents – in addition to the permanent ones – maintain certain expectations. The data analysed in this paper was collected in a survey carried out in the spring and summer of 2016 in the settlement of Okrug Gornji located on the island of Čiovo in Split-Dalmatia County, in Croatia. The research was conducted on a stratified multistage probability sample of 203 permanent and 211 temporary residents. The analyses focussed on two main goals: 1) to discover to what extent the permanent and temporary residents are involved in certain segments of local development planning and 2) to examine the connection between the levels of participation in local development planning and the development of local social relations. The results indicate that the communities of permanent and temporary residents in Okrug Gornji are fairly weakly engaged in the process of seeking solutions that could improve their daily lives. The municipality does not differ from the national framework in that regard. However, a particularly interesting finding was that temporary residents were not only more interested in participating in local development planning but also, in some respects, participated even more actively. In the case of temporary residents, local social relations were positively related to participation in local development planning, while the same factor generated no statistically significant effect in the case of permanent residents.
Although seemingly paradoxical, it seems that today, in the time when globalization processes of Western civilisation are at their prime, for many people the ideas of security, closeness and ...belonging remained increasingly important. Numerous recent research studies in social sciences speak of the importance of neighbourhood at different levels, and this importance is primarily manifested in the positive influence produced by the satisfaction with the neighbourhood that one lives in. Study of neighbourhood characteristics is very relevant today and in that sense, our research aims to contribute to a better understanding of this complex phenomenon in the context of Croatian society as well. The aim of this research is to gain a basic insight into the perception of the level of social integration in the neighbourhood, and to determine to which extent personal experience of social interaction with those that one shares one's living space with influences the perception of social cohesion in Croatian society. The results of the research have shown that only a smaller number of respondents can brag about living in a harmonious neighbourhood, at which harmonious refers to the achieved level of social integration, while most of them find some elements that point to inadequacies or a complete absence of social integration in their neighbourhood.
The aim of this study is to check the factor structure of The Material Values Scale, examine the orientation of Croatian residents towards materialism, examine their basic human value hierarchy, and ...to identify and explain the relationship between values and materialism with control of sociodemographic characteristics. The survey was carried out on a representative sample of 1004 adult Croatian residents. The short version of The Material Values Scale (MVS) (Richins, 2004) was applied for the materialism examination and the short version of the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ) (Schwartz et al., 2001) was applied for the value examination. The results show that possession and acquisition of goods are mainly not important for Croatian residents in terms of the main preoccupation in life, and, on average, they do not believe that consumption leads to happiness. Croatian residents attribute more importance to tradition, universalism and benevolence and less to stimulation and power. In terms of the relationship between values and materialism, it turned out that ten value types with control of socio-demographic characteristics explain 16% of the total variance of happiness, as a first measured dimension of materialism, and 39% of the total variance of centrality as a second dimension of materialism.
Temeljni ciljevi ovog rada jesu: ispitati faktorsku strukturu skale materijalizma, razinu usmjerenosti graana Hrvatske prema materijalizmu, utvrditi hijerarhiju vrijednosti i objasniti povezanost ...vrijednosti i materijalizma uz kontrolu sociodemografskih obiljezja. Istrazivanje je provedeno na reprezentativnom uzorku punoljetnoga stanovnistva (N =1004). Za mjerenje materijalizma upotrijebljena je kratka verzija skale materijalizma (The Material Values Scale, Richins, 2004), a za mjerenje vrijednosti skraceni Upitnik osobnih vrednota, PVQ; Schwartz i sur., 2001). Graanima uglavnom nije vazno posjedovanje i stjecanje materijalnog u smislu glavne preokupacije u zivotu (centralnost) te ne procjenjuju da posjedovanje i stjecanje dobara stvara dozivljaj srece (sreca u posjedovanju). Rezultati nadalje pokazuju da se najveca vaznost pridaje tradiciji, univerzalizmu i dobrohotnosti, dok se najmanja vaznost pridaje poticaju i moci. Sto se tice temeljnih vrijednosti kao mogucih odrednica dimenzija materijalizma, pokazalo se da sa deset vrijednosnih tipova uz kontrolu sociodemografskih obiljezja mozemo objasniti 16% ukupne varijance srece u posjedovanju, kao prve izmjerene dimenzije materijalizma, te 39% ukupne varijance centralnosti, kao druge dimenzije materijalizma.//The aim of this study is to check the factor structure of The Material Values Scale, examine the orientation of Croatian residents towards materialism, examine their basic human value hierarchy, and to identify and explain the relationship between values and materialism with control of sociodemographic characteristics. The survey was carried out on a representative sample of 1004 adult Croatian residents. The short version of The Material Values Scale (MVS) (Richins, 2004) was applied for the materialism examination and the short version of the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ) (Schwartz et al., 2001) was applied for the value examination. The results show that possession and acquisition of goods are mainly not important for Croatian residents in terms of the main preoccupation in life, and, on average, they do not believe that consumption leads to happiness. Croatian residents attribute more importance to tradition, universalism and benevolence and less to stimulation and power. In terms of the relationship between values and materialism, it turned out that ten value types with control of socio-demographic characteristics explain 16% of the total variance of happiness, as a first measured dimension of materialism, and 39% of the total variance of centrality as a second dimension of materialism. Reprinted by permission of Drustvena Istrazivanja
U ovom radu istražujemo kako srednjoškolci u Hrvatskoj razumiju i doživljavaju svoj kulturni identitet te koji su oblici njihove kulturne participacije. U sklopu međunarodnog projekta CHIEF u ...Hrvatskoj je provedeno kvalitativno istraživanje kojim smo obuhvatili učenike drugih razreda triju srednjih škola, jedne u velikom gradu, druge u manjem urbanom središtu i treće u ruralnom području. Pritom su provedeni polustrukturirani intervjui sa 60 učenika (po dvadeset iz svake škole) i devetero nastavnika (po troje iz svake škole). U sklopu projekta provedeno je i anketno istraživanje u 28 srednjih škola na više od 2000 učenika. Kvalitativni nalazi, potkrijepljeni nalazima anketnog istraživanja, pokazuju da se mladi ponajprije identificiraju kroz obrasce mjesta, regije i nacije pa tek onda kroz obrasce Europe i čovječanstva. Razlike između urbanih i ruralnih sredina nisu se pokazale presudnima za različitost stavova i oblika kulturne participacije mladih. Važnija se čini izloženost multikulturnom iskustvu uz ekonomsku dimenziju uže regije koja je u nekim slučajevima utjecala na značenje koje mladi pridaju etničkoj različitosti u vlastitoj sredini. S obzirom na visoko mjesto koje pripada glazbi na ljestvici najčešćih oblika kulturne participacije mladih prema rezultatima anketnog istraživanja, važan je nalaz kvalitativnog dijela istraživanja koji ukazuje na dominaciju stilova u vezi s popularnom glazbom zvanom „cajka" neovisno o stupnju urbanizacije (veliki grad naspram ruralne sredine).
U radu su prikazani rezultati etnografskog istraživanja ansambla JeboTon, skupine mladih glazbenika koji sviraju na zagrebačkim ulicama. JeboTon je kolektiv članova raznih bendova koji su željeli ...sudjelovati na zagrebačkoj sceni tako što će svirati na ulici. Većina ljudi aktivnih u JeboTonu mladi su ljudi od 20 do 30 godina. Aktivnosti temelje na sviranju na javnim prostorima u Zagrebu, ali putuju i u druge hrvatske gradove te u inozemstvo. Promatranjem sa sudjelovanjem istraživane su aktivnosti, organizacija te unutargrupna dinamika, dok su materijali prikupljeni polustrukturiranim intervjuima korišteni pri analizi specifičnih narativa pojedinaca u kolektivu, kao i njihovih stavova u vezi s kulturom, alternativnom scenom u Zagrebu, principima djelovanja kolektiva te ulozi javnog prostora u reprodukciji kulturnog sadržaja. U ovom radu želimo odgovoriti na dva istraživačka pitanja: 1. kako mladi aktivni u ansamblu JeboTon gledaju na svoje djelovanje u javnom prostoru; 2. kako mladi aktivni u ansamblu JeboTon doživljavaju javni prostor kao mjesta kulturne reprodukcije u usporedbi s drugim prostorima kulturne reprodukcije (npr. klubovima). Kako bismo predmetu istraživanja pristupili što detaljnije, istraživanju javnog prostora i kulturnih praksi pristupili smo koristeći se konceptima koji su bliski različitim disciplinama koje istražuju urbane i javne prostore kao što su urbana sociologija i antropologija te disciplinama koje se bave kulturom i mladima.
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