Personality traits, natural language and cognitive development
Project leader: Boris Mlačić, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2007
After previous research that confirmed the validity of the descriptive five-dimensional model of personality (Goldberg, 1990) in Croatia (Mlačić and Ostendorf, 2005), the goal of this project is to systematically expand research into the structure of personality to include word types and categories of individual differences that have so far been neglected and mostly unexplored....
Social evaluation of th CRO inovation system in function of knowledge society
Project Start: 01/01/2007
After the first phase of the socio-economic transition in Croatia, which included the restitution of the established institutions of capitalist society (market economy, democratization, privatization), there is a need for faster inclusion in global economic processes, primarily in the economy of the European Union. Achieving competitiveness on the European and global market imp...
Demographic Aspects of Urban-Rural Polarization of Croatia
Project leader: Dražen Živić, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2007
The movement and development of the population in Croatia in the period after the Second World War took place under general and specific conditions and circumstances that were mostly attributed to normal and spatially balanced demographic development. After that, it is necessary to start the demographic process in the Homeland War, in the early 1990s, Croatia found itself in a ...
Social attitudes and intergroup relations in Croatian society
Project leader: Renata Franc, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2007
The project refers to the research and analysis of social attitudes and intergroup relations in contemporary Croatian society as one of the foundations for the analysis of Croatian social identity and for comparisons at the European and world level. Namely, social identity has its origins and manifestations in values, social attitudes and ideologies, which means that to underst...
Minorities in Croatia and Croats in neighboring countries: historical identities
Project leader: Dragutin Pavličević, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2007
The proposed project, for the first time in Croatian historiography, envisages a historical investigation of the results of migration in the past in both directions between the area of today’s Republic of Croatia and the area of today’s surrounding countries in Central and Southeastern Europe. On the one hand, there are national minorities in Croatia, whose ancestor...
New economic elites, institutions and spatial dependency of development
Project leader: Drago Čengić, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2007
Croatian modernization at the executive (local) level depends on the behavior of its new economic and political elites because, according to recent European analyses, “the internal workings, commit-ments, and actions of elites constitute basic distinctions among political and economic systems.” (Higley , Lengyel, Elites after State Socialism, 2000, p. 1). While Euro...
Sustainable Development of Croatia
Project leader: Vladimir Lay, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2007
The contemporary development of Croatia and the development dilemmas and problems of Croatian society show that the concept of sustainable development in Croatia is very current and its operationalization is necessary in the coming years. Therefore, we suggest continuing the work on this topic, which was initiated by the project “Conceptualization of sustainable developme...
The determinants of risk and deviant behaviour in a national and global context
Project Start: 01/01/2007
Social and political changes in Croatia at the beginning of the nineties, and especially after the end of the war, exposed many social problems. Social sciences have been slow to adapt to new opportunities and demands, resulting in insufficiently researched social phenomena. Within the framework of social sciences at the European level, the priority areas of research are variou...
The Role of Social Networks and in the Knowledge Society
Project Start: 01/01/2007
There is a widespread opinion that individuals who left Croatia function better in “foreign” social frameworks, that they are more productive than they would be in Croatia, and that their knowledge is better used in more developed environments than here. Such premises point to the conclusion that the productivity of individuals depends on the social framework –...
Determinants of parenting, family relationships and childrens well-being
Project Start: 01/01/2007
Proponents of positive psychology emphasize the importance of perceived quality of life as the main component of subjective well-being. Family relationships are among the most important correlates of the perceived quality of life of adolescents. Previous research has largely focused on the impact of living in different types of families on children’s development, or on th...
Social re/construction in rural territories: developmental sustainability
Project Start: 01/01/2007
In the last ten years, sociological science has returned to the somewhat forgotten and, it was thought, spent concept of territory in an effort to better understand and explain the processes of changes in space. There are several reasons, but let’s mention only two here: the territorial approach enables a more complete understanding of the modernization processes of the r...
Homeland war
Project Start: 01/01/2002
Homeland war
