The religious, national and political identity of Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Project Start: 01/03/2008
The identity of the Croats in BiH is real, and is still being created today, in contact with, rejection of, and mixing with other and different identities, both with Islamic-Bosniak, Orthodox-Serbian, Sephardic-Jewish, and in recent times in contact with, rejection of, and mixing with the identities of modern and post-modern European and world societies. The identity of the Cro...
European Social Survey 4th round
Project leader: Ljiljana Kaliterna-Lipovčan, PhD | Project Start: 20/02/2008
In 2001, the European Science Foundation initiated a European project called “European Social Survey – ESS” with the purpose of continuous monitoring of changes in the socio-political attitudes and value system of citizens of European countries. The survey is conducted every two years in order to gain the best possible insight into the course of the mentioned ...
Western Balkan Countries INCO-NET
Project Start: 01/01/2008
The Western Balkan countries INCO-NET assists to develop the relationship between the EU and the WBCs in the area of science and technology (S&T). The project supports the Steering Platform on Research for the Western Balkan Countries in the facilitation of interaction between the Western Balkan countries, the EU Member States, states associated to the Framework Programmes ...
Croatian Identity and Mediterranean Multiculturality in the Age of Globalization
Project leader: Saša Mrduljaš, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2007
The structure of the Croatian identity, the historical processes of its formation and its current and future socio-cultural development will move between self-determination and integration into the Euro-Atlantic and globalization processes. Croatian national and socio-cultural identity is built on three European regional cultural traditions, and in this context it contains thre...
Ivo Pilar, the theoretician of Croatian modernization
Project leader: Zlatko Matijević, PhD, Srećko Lipovčan, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2007
To this day, there has never been a systematic study of the works and life of Dr. Ivo Pilar (1874-1933), theoretician of Croatian modernization, whose name is rightly named after the Institute of Social Sciences in Zagreb, the holder of this project. It was mostly the political and ideological circumstances that made it impossible for the public to know anything about this dist...
Public Opinion and Mass Media Research
Project leader: Ivana Ferić, PhD, Vesna Lamza-Posavec, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2007
The research starts from the general hypothesis that the formation of public opinion is partly based on relatively stable psychological predispositions, while the other part is situationally determined and therefore subject to changes under the influence of the relevant situational context. In this regard, the research is, on the one hand, focused on the study of some psychosoc...
Consumerism and Sustainability Cultures: Global Chalenges to Sociocultural Devel
Project leader: Snježana Čolić, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2007
The purpose of the research within the project is to investigate the nature of contemporary global capitalism primarily as a cultural system, and its impact on the socio-cultural transformation of Croatian society and culture. Changes in this dimension are primarily manifested in the transformation of social values, which implies a change in the motives of the majority of membe...
World Values Survey – Croatia in globalized world
Project leader: Ivan Rimac, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2007
The World Values Survey project – Croatia in a globalized world is part of the World Values Survey, which investigates the values of citizens of several countries at the same time. The aim of the research is to determine the dominant social values in individual countries and to compare the results of different countries. Value research is carried out on probabilistic samp...
Social sustainability and processes of urban transformation in Croatia
Project leader: Anka Mišetić, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2007
Two processes, more than others, open up new opportunities and challenges for the development of cities in the world, including in Croatia – they are globalization and decentralization. Integrating Croatian society into European associations will further stimulate dynamic urban changes, which also implies a comparative analytical perspective, especially in relation to Med...
Religious pluralism, postmodern religious movements and Croatian identity
Project Start: 01/01/2007
One of the fundamental features of Croatian society and its identity is certainly traditional belonging to the Catholic Church. The interweaving of the traditional Catholic identity with the national belonging to the Croatian people is an indisputable historical fact. Even in the most difficult times of the repressive atheistic system, that is, in the times of communist rule, t...
Development of national indicators of Quality of Life
Project leader: Ljiljana Kaliterna-Lipovčan, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2007
The purpose of the proposed research is to establish a system of continuous measurement of the quality of life in Croatia. However, since Croatia does not have a system for measuring the quality of life in the way most developed countries of the world do, it is necessary to define a set of indicators that refer to certain aspects of the quality of life and create appropriate in...
Historical town atlas-historic identity and modern development of Croatian towns
Project leader: Mirela Altić, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2007
The “Historical Atlas of Cities” project would deal with the collection, scientific processing and publication of cartographic and other historical sources for the history of Croatian cities. It would be based on archival material stored in our and foreign archival and museum institutions. The historical atlas of cities would consist of a cartographic and a textual ...
