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  • Traditionalism versus (post)modernism : a study of student population on the territory of former Yugoslavia - gender perspective
    Tavčar Krajnc, Marina
    The contribution explores gender perspective in value comparison between male and female students on the territory of former Yugoslavia, taking into account the starting point of very intensive ... process of value change. Traditionalism in our discussion is considered as the concept of values and manners, which means that individuals live in accordance with tradition al patterns and idealize the past (Shills 1981, Mannheim 1953). Weakening traditional practice, believes and values cause the existential and ontological crisis, and the late modernity comes into life (Giddens 1991, Beck 1992), where the traditions loose their impact, concerning the social and the individual aspect of life. The survey database of the research study entitled Value change in post-Yugoslav countries was employed for our discussion of this topic. All the data were collected surveying the student population in the study year 2008/09 at Universities in Maribor, Split, Novi Sad, Niš, Priština, Skopje, Podgorica, Sarajevo and Banja Luka. The quota sample of 2187 respondents was structured by country and gender: the questlonnaires were operationalized for cross-cultural analysis. Comparing the answers of female and male students, all the items in the questionnaire were explored, but only some of them were analyzed for the present contribution. Here we have emphasized the items where one would, on the basis of previous theoretical and empirical research, expect to find statistically significant differences between male and female population. Gender differences were found regarding marriage and family values, as well as attitudes regarding the public sphere (work and politics). Male students had higher scores on the majority of aforementioned traditionalism constructs. Cross-cultural comparison in studied countries shows that the thesis about polarization of traditionalism versus (post)modernism is mostly supported by our survey data arguments.
    Source: Proceedings (Str. [469]-481)
    Type of material - conference contribution ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2010
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 17919496

source: Proceedings (Str. [469]-481)

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