The paper asks if social media users are concerned regarding algorithmic news personalisation and how their concerns connect with other factors. We took the influential concepts of echo chambers and filter bubbles as a starting point to explore three dimensions of concern about news personalisation: missing important information, missing opposite opinions and jeopardizing privacy because of personalised news. The survey among social media news users (N=1481) shows that concern exists, but more than a third of users do not have an evident attitude regarding news personalisation. Additionally, the concern is connected with knowledge about the algorithmic selection process, the importance of social networks in users? media repertoire and, to a small extent, negative attitude towards the selection principle. The findings contribute to our understanding of users? perspectives on news personalisation which is particulary relevant considering the increasing use of personalised news and the fact that it is individual citizens? responsibility to be accurately and comprehensively informed in a media environment where the news content is fragmented.
{"title":"Social media users’ concerns regarding algorithmic news personalisation","authors":"Danka Ninkovic-Slavnic, Snjezana Milivojevic","doi":"10.2298/soc2303435n","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc2303435n","url":null,"abstract":"The paper asks if social media users are concerned regarding algorithmic news personalisation and how their concerns connect with other factors. We took the influential concepts of echo chambers and filter bubbles as a starting point to explore three dimensions of concern about news personalisation: missing important information, missing opposite opinions and jeopardizing privacy because of personalised news. The survey among social media news users (N=1481) shows that concern exists, but more than a third of users do not have an evident attitude regarding news personalisation. Additionally, the concern is connected with knowledge about the algorithmic selection process, the importance of social networks in users? media repertoire and, to a small extent, negative attitude towards the selection principle. The findings contribute to our understanding of users? perspectives on news personalisation which is particulary relevant considering the increasing use of personalised news and the fact that it is individual citizens? responsibility to be accurately and comprehensively informed in a media environment where the news content is fragmented.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135838913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
After almost three decades since the publication of the 17 volumes of the edition dedicated to Serbian male scientists, SANU has launched an edition of the collection of works on the female members of its institution. The aim of this article is to present the methodology and results of the first volume dedicated to female academics. Using the qualitative research method, the contents of the textual and visual material are analyzed, and using the comparative method, the similarities and differences with other similar efforts to shed light on the life and work of the first women in the highest scientific and artistic institution are examined. It is shown that the attention was primarily focused on the chronological presentation of the work of women academicians, and that there was mostly no consideration of the connections and relationships between the specificity of female gender identity and social norms. Although a gender-sensitive biographical model for prominent women in Serbian society was established in 1913 in the album Srpkinja, this model remained ignored in this collection. Recommendations for further research concern a more complete determination of the impact of gender differences and specificities from a historical and contemporary perspective, a critical examination of socio-political factors of gender discrimination, determination of professional and social ties of female academics. It is estimated that this article can improve the historiographical study of gender differences and specificities, and can be useful for the improvement of state policies of education and memory, work, employment and social policies.
{"title":"Some observations on the methodological approach to biography of the first female members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts","authors":"S. Tomic","doi":"10.2298/soc220904006t","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc220904006t","url":null,"abstract":"After almost three decades since the publication of the 17 volumes of the edition dedicated to Serbian male scientists, SANU has launched an edition of the collection of works on the female members of its institution. The aim of this article is to present the methodology and results of the first volume dedicated to female academics. Using the qualitative research method, the contents of the textual and visual material are analyzed, and using the comparative method, the similarities and differences with other similar efforts to shed light on the life and work of the first women in the highest scientific and artistic institution are examined. It is shown that the attention was primarily focused on the chronological presentation of the work of women academicians, and that there was mostly no consideration of the connections and relationships between the specificity of female gender identity and social norms. Although a gender-sensitive biographical model for prominent women in Serbian society was established in 1913 in the album Srpkinja, this model remained ignored in this collection. Recommendations for further research concern a more complete determination of the impact of gender differences and specificities from a historical and contemporary perspective, a critical examination of socio-political factors of gender discrimination, determination of professional and social ties of female academics. It is estimated that this article can improve the historiographical study of gender differences and specificities, and can be useful for the improvement of state policies of education and memory, work, employment and social policies.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68781026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper analyzes how poverty is presented in the television discourse in Serbia. The theoretical-methodological framework of research relies on quantitative-qualitative content analysis and the concept of media framing in which the usage of patterns of selection, emphasis and exclusion result in the interpretation and assessment of certain events. The sample for analysis consisted of 35 central news programs broadcasted on five television stations on seven cyclically selected days in the period from 10 th October to 27 th October 2021. The goal of the research was to determine the dominant frames of the representation of poverty and to examine whether and to what extent used frames differ in comparison to the previous research. The results show that television framing of poverty is consistent with the general pattern of problematic media polarization in Serbia. Two frames are dominantly represented: general economic poverty and propaganda-populist frame. In the case of the first one, poverty is presented as a background theme in analytic reports on the political and macroeconomic issues. It is reduced to an impersonal approach that does not have the strength to indicate the seriousness of the multidimensional problem of poverty. The second frame is characterized by a blurred picture of poverty. It is distributed through reports on the promotional activities of the president - the opening of factories and road infrastructure and explains the increasingly pronounced mutual connection between the ruling elite and journalists in the use of demagoga and propaganda matrices in conveying and setting frames as generally acceptable.
{"title":"Framing of poverty in TV reporting in Serbia","authors":"Brankica Draskovic","doi":"10.2298/soc220824013d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc220824013d","url":null,"abstract":"The paper analyzes how poverty is presented in the television discourse in Serbia. The theoretical-methodological framework of research relies on quantitative-qualitative content analysis and the concept of media framing in which the usage of patterns of selection, emphasis and exclusion result in the interpretation and assessment of certain events. The sample for analysis consisted of 35 central news programs broadcasted on five television stations on seven cyclically selected days in the period from 10 th October to 27 th October 2021. The goal of the research was to determine the dominant frames of the representation of poverty and to examine whether and to what extent used frames differ in comparison to the previous research. The results show that television framing of poverty is consistent with the general pattern of problematic media polarization in Serbia. Two frames are dominantly represented: general economic poverty and propaganda-populist frame. In the case of the first one, poverty is presented as a background theme in analytic reports on the political and macroeconomic issues. It is reduced to an impersonal approach that does not have the strength to indicate the seriousness of the multidimensional problem of poverty. The second frame is characterized by a blurred picture of poverty. It is distributed through reports on the promotional activities of the president - the opening of factories and road infrastructure and explains the increasingly pronounced mutual connection between the ruling elite and journalists in the use of demagoga and propaganda matrices in conveying and setting frames as generally acceptable.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68781365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In a social environment that emphasizes the importance of physical appearance and women is valued based on body appearance and sexuality, it raises the question of the relationship it establishes towards its own body. The work was intended to determine the attitude of respondents towards the importance attached to the physical appearance of the female body in the modern socio-cultural context and the degree of (dis)satisfaction with its own body. The questionnaire consists of a Scala attitude towards ?good? physical appearance (DFI scale), a seven-point Liqueur-type scale, and the Photography Figure Rating Scale (PFRS), which contains ten figures with different body mass index (BMI), from skinny to obese female bodies, filled out is by 462 respondents. The attitude towards physical appearance was not directly reflected in body dissatisfaction (there is no connection between these two constructs), but social ideals of beauty (thin ideal), which are transmitted through numerous sociocultural channels, are internalized. Respondents show a tendency to choose a figure (ideal) from BMI categories with insufficient weight. In general, the results show that the importance attached to the physical appearance of a woman's body is largely determined by the value and psychological component, and that respondents have internalized to some extent social standards that promote slender and thin bodies.
{"title":"The importance of physical appearance and actual body figure of women in Serbia in the contemporary sociocultural environment","authors":"Branko Velov, Tatjana Jovanovic","doi":"10.2298/soc220613011v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc220613011v","url":null,"abstract":"In a social environment that emphasizes the importance of physical appearance and women is valued based on body appearance and sexuality, it raises the question of the relationship it establishes towards its own body. The work was intended to determine the attitude of respondents towards the importance attached to the physical appearance of the female body in the modern socio-cultural context and the degree of (dis)satisfaction with its own body. The questionnaire consists of a Scala attitude towards ?good? physical appearance (DFI scale), a seven-point Liqueur-type scale, and the Photography Figure Rating Scale (PFRS), which contains ten figures with different body mass index (BMI), from skinny to obese female bodies, filled out is by 462 respondents. The attitude towards physical appearance was not directly reflected in body dissatisfaction (there is no connection between these two constructs), but social ideals of beauty (thin ideal), which are transmitted through numerous sociocultural channels, are internalized. Respondents show a tendency to choose a figure (ideal) from BMI categories with insufficient weight. In general, the results show that the importance attached to the physical appearance of a woman's body is largely determined by the value and psychological component, and that respondents have internalized to some extent social standards that promote slender and thin bodies.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68781070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In three books published at the turn of the millennium, the authors talk about the phenomenon of the pronounced presence and significance of the Holocaust in American society: Hilene Flanzbaum?s Americanization of the Holocaust (1999), Peter Novick?s Holocaust in American Life (1999) and Norman Finkelstein?s The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (2000). These works describe (and criticize) the post-Holocaust memorial world which is characterized by the commodification, commercialization and instrumentalization of the culture of remembrance. Even though each of these authors invoked/understood the term differently, the effect of their works was the introduction of the term ?Holocaust industry? into the public discourse. Today, it has has become an umbrella metaphor for a whole range of practices that represent the instrumentalization, commercialization and commodification of Holocaust remembrance. The paper deals with the process of (political-economic) instrumentalization of the Holocaust, its normalization, naturalization, normativization and mechanization - in Western societies - and criticism of that process. The aim of the paper is to shed light on what is meant by the Holocaust industry and to open space for further reflection and problematization of the Holocaust discourse in the light of the warning that its current commodification and industrialization sends us.
{"title":"Holocaust industry? The (American) debate on the instrumentalization of the Shoah at the turn of the century","authors":"Vera Mevorah, P. Krstić, Marija Velinov","doi":"10.2298/soc220622009m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc220622009m","url":null,"abstract":"In three books published at the turn of the millennium, the authors talk about the phenomenon of the pronounced presence and significance of the Holocaust in American society: Hilene Flanzbaum?s Americanization of the Holocaust (1999), Peter Novick?s Holocaust in American Life (1999) and Norman Finkelstein?s The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (2000). These works describe (and criticize) the post-Holocaust memorial world which is characterized by the commodification, commercialization and instrumentalization of the culture of remembrance. Even though each of these authors invoked/understood the term differently, the effect of their works was the introduction of the term ?Holocaust industry? into the public discourse. Today, it has has become an umbrella metaphor for a whole range of practices that represent the instrumentalization, commercialization and commodification of Holocaust remembrance. The paper deals with the process of (political-economic) instrumentalization of the Holocaust, its normalization, naturalization, normativization and mechanization - in Western societies - and criticism of that process. The aim of the paper is to shed light on what is meant by the Holocaust industry and to open space for further reflection and problematization of the Holocaust discourse in the light of the warning that its current commodification and industrialization sends us.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68781167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper discusses the division of humor into ?positive? and ?negative?, and focuses also on ?negative? aspects, which allows a comprehensive sociological analysis of this phenomenon. In this sense, the central issue of sociological analysis is the function of humor related to the management of tensions in all types of social relations. The aim of the paper is to relate humor to the maintenance of social order, power relations, hierarchy and discipline. It is about conceiving humor as a regulatory mechanism of social control that is used to ridicule or embarrass actors who violate prevailing social norms. On the other hand ?rebellious? aspect of humor is analyzed, that is, humor conceived as resistance, i.e. ?weapons of the weak?. Given that it is possible to point out both disciplinary and ?rebellious? functions, the debate on the issue of the conservative or subversive nature of humor has not been resolved in the literature. The paper points out the developmental perspective of humor, i.e. the figurational explanation, that focuses on contextual and historical differences in which different functions of humor prevail, and humor is conceived as a kind of ?negotiation? within given social power relations and status relations between actors.
{"title":"Humor and social order: Towards the perspective of figurational sociology","authors":"M. Kojic","doi":"10.2298/soc220530001k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc220530001k","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses the division of humor into ?positive? and ?negative?, and focuses also on ?negative? aspects, which allows a comprehensive sociological analysis of this phenomenon. In this sense, the central issue of sociological analysis is the function of humor related to the management of tensions in all types of social relations. The aim of the paper is to relate humor to the maintenance of social order, power relations, hierarchy and discipline. It is about conceiving humor as a regulatory mechanism of social control that is used to ridicule or embarrass actors who violate prevailing social norms. On the other hand ?rebellious? aspect of humor is analyzed, that is, humor conceived as resistance, i.e. ?weapons of the weak?. Given that it is possible to point out both disciplinary and ?rebellious? functions, the debate on the issue of the conservative or subversive nature of humor has not been resolved in the literature. The paper points out the developmental perspective of humor, i.e. the figurational explanation, that focuses on contextual and historical differences in which different functions of humor prevail, and humor is conceived as a kind of ?negotiation? within given social power relations and status relations between actors.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68781359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Research indicates a clear need for society to improve the quality of human capital by reducing stress at the workplace in order to improve the well-being of employees, the organization and society. The daily stress of employees has increased on the global stage, therefore research examining different aspects of workplace stress is necessary. The goal of this research was to determine the types of stress among employees in the gaming industry through the analysis of the intensity of their negative emotional response to different sources of work related stress. 753 subjects (80.1% of women, average age 25.2 ? 3.21). The Stress Scale in Young-30 (SSM-30) was used (? = 0.904). The data were processed using confirmatory factor analysis and structural modeling. Research results show that there are four types of workplace stress in the gaming industry (Family stress, Job expectations, Deficits, Burden). The strongest stressor is heavy workload in the workplace. Reactions to different types of stressors are correlated. The most important correlation is expressed between negative emotional responses to high achievement demands and heavy workload showing that employees respond to demands for more engagement at work and the improvement of the work output in a similar way.
{"title":"Types of stressors and their influence on human capital in the gaming industry","authors":"J. Marković, J. Jovic","doi":"10.2298/soc230201016m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc230201016m","url":null,"abstract":"Research indicates a clear need for society to improve the quality of human capital by reducing stress at the workplace in order to improve the well-being of employees, the organization and society. The daily stress of employees has increased on the global stage, therefore research examining different aspects of workplace stress is necessary. The goal of this research was to determine the types of stress among employees in the gaming industry through the analysis of the intensity of their negative emotional response to different sources of work related stress. 753 subjects (80.1% of women, average age 25.2 ? 3.21). The Stress Scale in Young-30 (SSM-30) was used (? = 0.904). The data were processed using confirmatory factor analysis and structural modeling. Research results show that there are four types of workplace stress in the gaming industry (Family stress, Job expectations, Deficits, Burden). The strongest stressor is heavy workload in the workplace. Reactions to different types of stressors are correlated. The most important correlation is expressed between negative emotional responses to high achievement demands and heavy workload showing that employees respond to demands for more engagement at work and the improvement of the work output in a similar way.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68781490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper discusses computational thinking (CT) in education, as a new curricular content, and as a technosolutionist project to reshape educational practice. Proponents of CT argue that all students should learn to ?think like computer scientists?, because that is a universal mental skill for solving problems. However, practical difficulties in teaching and assessing this skill show that CT is contextually specific to computer programming, which means that its educational universalisation unjustifiably marginalizes other forms of knowledge. At the same time, especially during the pandemic, CT is increasingly permeating education through machine learning softwares, with the pedagogical argument that, like on YouTube or Netfix, algorithmic processing of data on student activities on educational platforms will achieve the progressive ideal of personalized user experience - of learning in an adaptive environment. Thus, however, algorithms shape the curriculum, not institutions. Proponents of digitalization actually confirm that these algorithms are not politically neutral, and that personalization means further privatization of education, when they demand that traditional schools be gradually replaced by educational platforms, while advocating the neoliberal view of education as acquisition of ?human capital?, or skills needed by the digital economy. Hence, ?thinking like a computer scientist? really does not only mean programming, but also creating digital content and data, which is capital for large IT companies.
{"title":"Computational thinking in education - epistemology, pedagogy and politics","authors":"Milos Sumonja","doi":"10.2298/soc220401005s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc220401005s","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses computational thinking (CT) in education, as a new curricular content, and as a technosolutionist project to reshape educational practice. Proponents of CT argue that all students should learn to ?think like computer scientists?, because that is a universal mental skill for solving problems. However, practical difficulties in teaching and assessing this skill show that CT is contextually specific to computer programming, which means that its educational universalisation unjustifiably marginalizes other forms of knowledge. At the same time, especially during the pandemic, CT is increasingly permeating education through machine learning softwares, with the pedagogical argument that, like on YouTube or Netfix, algorithmic processing of data on student activities on educational platforms will achieve the progressive ideal of personalized user experience - of learning in an adaptive environment. Thus, however, algorithms shape the curriculum, not institutions. Proponents of digitalization actually confirm that these algorithms are not politically neutral, and that personalization means further privatization of education, when they demand that traditional schools be gradually replaced by educational platforms, while advocating the neoliberal view of education as acquisition of ?human capital?, or skills needed by the digital economy. Hence, ?thinking like a computer scientist? really does not only mean programming, but also creating digital content and data, which is capital for large IT companies.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68780729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper endeavours to offer a closer definition of the concepts of common good, public interest and the commons, analysing their usage in a contemporary and historical perspective. The common good has been one of the key subjects of moral and political philosophy since ancient times. Today, the term public interest is often used as a synonym for the term common good. However, we will try to show that they carry a somewhat different meaning. A recent significant echo of the long-standing debate on the common good can be recognized in the discussions surrounding the concept of commons, which refers to cultural, material and intellectual resources to which all members of a community claim the right to use. All three notions contribute to a deeper understanding of community well-being and the way to realize that well-being. However, authors that are studied in the paper emphasize differently the importance of the collectivity and the individual in that process. The concept of the common good, especially for pre-modern thinkers, refers to the good of the community from which follows the good of its members, while the appealing to the interests of individuals is considered immoral. Later, with the development of the concept of public interest, the individual is placed in the centre of consideration, and the well-being of the community is brought into relation with what is in the interest of its members. Ultimately, the notion of the commons brings the collectivity back to focus, and ?togetherness? becomes a key term in addressing the issues of degradation and sustainability of a wide range of goods.
{"title":"Common good, public interest and the commons: Historical perspective on conceptual delineations and contemporary dilemmas","authors":"B. Radovanović, Srdjan Prodanovic","doi":"10.2298/soc221116015r","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc221116015r","url":null,"abstract":"The paper endeavours to offer a closer definition of the concepts of common good, public interest and the commons, analysing their usage in a contemporary and historical perspective. The common good has been one of the key subjects of moral and political philosophy since ancient times. Today, the term public interest is often used as a synonym for the term common good. However, we will try to show that they carry a somewhat different meaning. A recent significant echo of the long-standing debate on the common good can be recognized in the discussions surrounding the concept of commons, which refers to cultural, material and intellectual resources to which all members of a community claim the right to use. All three notions contribute to a deeper understanding of community well-being and the way to realize that well-being. However, authors that are studied in the paper emphasize differently the importance of the collectivity and the individual in that process. The concept of the common good, especially for pre-modern thinkers, refers to the good of the community from which follows the good of its members, while the appealing to the interests of individuals is considered immoral. Later, with the development of the concept of public interest, the individual is placed in the centre of consideration, and the well-being of the community is brought into relation with what is in the interest of its members. Ultimately, the notion of the commons brings the collectivity back to focus, and ?togetherness? becomes a key term in addressing the issues of degradation and sustainability of a wide range of goods.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68781146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Although a considerable amount of research was conducted on the topic of the 1990s Yugoslav wars, the affect the war had on Vojvodinian minorities (in this case the Hungarian ethnic minority) received scant attention in the wider academic community. Millennials, born in the 1980s might be the group most adversely affected by the Yugoslav wars. They did not experience anything from the ?old Yugoslavia? which was idolized by many, and which did serve as a welfare state for the generations who were born in the middle of the century. Millennials had to face the diminishment of the big country on the micro level, i.e. in their families as their fathers were receiving military conscription and anxiety was brought in and on the macro level, i.e. in the society being faced with open nationalism, alienation, and the prospect of being side-lined. The goal of this paper is to investigate the effect of the Yugoslav wars on the ethnic minority millennials childhood and adult life through their narratives about the traumatic experiences caused by the war. The analysis is based on semi-structured interviews conducted with millennials born in homogenous Hungarian marriage or in a Serbian-Hungarian intermarriage of their parents. The findings show that all the respondents, on a micro level, endured fear and anxiety because of their fathers either went to war or went to live abroad, leaving their family for many years to avoid military conscription. On a macro level, the respondents encountered nationalism-fueled incidents during their schooling or in the street that inevitably became embedded into their identities.
{"title":"The invisible participants of the 1990s wars: A view from the perspective of the millennials from the Hungarian national community in Vojvodina","authors":"Karolina Lendák-Kabók","doi":"10.2298/soc220517003l","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc220517003l","url":null,"abstract":"Although a considerable amount of research was conducted on the topic of the 1990s Yugoslav wars, the affect the war had on Vojvodinian minorities (in this case the Hungarian ethnic minority) received scant attention in the wider academic community. Millennials, born in the 1980s might be the group most adversely affected by the Yugoslav wars. They did not experience anything from the ?old Yugoslavia? which was idolized by many, and which did serve as a welfare state for the generations who were born in the middle of the century. Millennials had to face the diminishment of the big country on the micro level, i.e. in their families as their fathers were receiving military conscription and anxiety was brought in and on the macro level, i.e. in the society being faced with open nationalism, alienation, and the prospect of being side-lined. The goal of this paper is to investigate the effect of the Yugoslav wars on the ethnic minority millennials childhood and adult life through their narratives about the traumatic experiences caused by the war. The analysis is based on semi-structured interviews conducted with millennials born in homogenous Hungarian marriage or in a Serbian-Hungarian intermarriage of their parents. The findings show that all the respondents, on a micro level, endured fear and anxiety because of their fathers either went to war or went to live abroad, leaving their family for many years to avoid military conscription. On a macro level, the respondents encountered nationalism-fueled incidents during their schooling or in the street that inevitably became embedded into their identities.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68781335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}