Social changes and changing role of mixed households in Serbia

Every specific social order relies on certain elements in social structure. In the case of Serbian society in the last decade of twentieth century significant role had played group of people that occupied two socio-economic positions, workers' and peasants'. The power of this group steamed from two points: their value system and capability to efficiently survive economic hardship by having alternative to secure living resources. Other specificity of this group is its dispersion, or non existence of consciousness of belonging to this specific group. However, social 'glue' for this group was nationalism and xenophobia, and common cultural model of behavior deeply rooted in rural culture. Ruling regime in Serbia, being itself based on nationalistic elements, had found its counterpart in this group. This paper deals with the position and changing role of the mentioned group from so called mixed households and the prospects of changes after the elections 2000 in Serbia

Consciousness · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Immigration · Nationalism · Order (exchange) · Political economy · Political science · Position (finance) · Power (physics) · Serbian · Social group · Social order · Social science · Sociology · Xenophobia · Law · Psychology · Regional Development and Management Studies