The main focus of this paper is to determine the needs for safety/security, that is to determine the problem of not fullfilling these needs in school environment. The results of empirical research, taken in five cities of South East Serbia, considering the sample of nine high schools and 540 students, detect offensive behaviour as serious problem of not fullfilling the needs for safety/security. The analysis of relevant national and local strategic frame shows whether these needs for safety/security are recognised as strategic or not, and also whether the action plans are focused on this safety/security problem prevention and solving in order to create safe environment, or not.
ABSTRACT. In a comparative perspective, the paper shows students' attitudes towards family, marriage and parenthood obtained in an empirical study entitled "Cultural orientation of actors/students, interethnic relations, national identity and the culture of peace in the Balkans" on the samples from the University of Bitola, Veliko Tarnovo and Niš. It analyzes findings from the three subsamples, and tests the hypothesis that students' religiousness and the firmness of their religious beliefs predicate their attitudes towards family, marriage and parenthood, irrespective of the country where they study. It is expected that the student youth in all subsamples shows preference for the individualistic model of partnership, symmetrical parenting, egalitarian partner and family relationships, but also that the choice of some attitudes The survey was conducted in December, 2012, in Serbia and January, 2013, in Macedonia and Bulgaria. The sample of 2400 planned respondents was formed through three subsamples with the same number of respondents in regional and university centres. It is a sample of subcluster type, designed so that, at the level of subsamples for each of these university centres, the way of selecting units in each segment of sampling ensures the presence of students with certain socio-demographic characteristics of significance for the tested problem (professional and educational profile, year of study). The presence of groups of respondents with mentioned characteristics and other qualities of interest for research was provided by the procedure of random selection at every stage of sample creation on the one hand, and respecting the proportions relating to the portion of students in some faculty groups and their number in some faculties within groups (Petrović, 2014, p. 13). The research was conducted by means of the survey method, using a questionnaire which covered a range of topics, much wider than Claims used to examine the models of value patterns aiming at marriage, family life and gender relations present a relatively structured family relations. These are the forms of mutual relations among actors within the family structure examined through the attitudes on certain family roles, gender relations within the family, parental roles, and finally, the general attitude towards marriage. Tested views were interpreted as dimensions of family values, with the aim of establishing a preference of students to a particular type of family value matrix and their gender sensitivity as a kind of an indicator of preference of traditional or modern models of marriage and family organization. Bearing in mind previous similar studies, a series of representative claims were selected in order to establish a tendency towards a certain type of family relations, whereby it is assumed that it is possible to identify, so to speak, two ideal-typical models: the traditional onepatriarchal family values and archaic gender stereotypes in its base and the modern one -marked by liberal values and commitment to gender equality (Iv...
This paper problematizes certain topics related to female monasticism in the Serbian Orthodox Church. Since the mere phenomenon of female monasticism and the practice present in this region are very rich, we were inclined to focus on specific aspects of the monastic life: the identity of nuns and the relation towards marriage and family.
The paper explores some peculiarities of the development geoculture of the postsocialist societies in transition on the basis of the results of empirical reserach conducted in Serbia, Macedonia and Bulgaria in 2003, 2007 and 2012. It focuses on the social attitudes of different social groups, and especially those of student population, on the current interethnic relations, Eurointegration modernization challenges and processes, the trends leading to dependent subdevelopment and retraditionalization. The results point to three tendencies intersecting in the given regional geospace: a) the tendency towards isolationism and retradiotionalism / retribalization, i.e. towards regression and return to premodern communities; b) the tendency towards dependent modernization and subdevelopment, and c) the tendency towards opening to the challanges of modernization and processes of European integrations. Our analysis shows that the third tendency is the most productive / the optimal one in drawing up contemporary development strategy / development policy. It is tightly intertwined with modern production forces, globalization processes, progressive reform tendencies and the culture of peace, and should therefore be insisted on in social processes directed by social agents. This is a result of the fact that the future of the Balkans does not lie in the focus on the past, in divisions and clashes, but in opening new development and civilizational perspectives for new generations, in the culture of peace and democratic cooperation and integration of this region.
Relying on the development of the concept of poverty, the authors analyse the strategic documents aimed at decreasing poverty and increasing social inclusion. The contemporary action theory and the method-ology of strategic analysis, especially of understanding, focuses on researching the interdependence between the cultural orientation of social agents, on the one hand, and their choice of development strategy and the production of a certain type of social relations, on the other hand. Adopting the given theoretical and methodological approach as the starting point, the paper points to the implications of different development strategies for the generation of social inequalities and poverty. The focus of this sociological analysis are contemporary societies in transition, and especially Serbian society in the last 25 years.
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