modernization

The aim of the project is to establish ideal-type interdisciplinary criteria for evaluating modernisation and (post-)transition processes in Croatian rural areas based on a case study of the rural Lika area. The proposed subject will be studied by employing contemporary modernization theories and development theories, in which an innovative approach to methodology based on mixe...

The aim of the project is to investigate the gender identities of men and women in post-transitional Croatia from the point of view of recent theories of modernization and development. The proposed topic will be investigated with a methodologically innovative approach, which is based on mixed methods and considers the identities of men and women in a relational context. Attitud...

The culture – society relation in Croatian modernisation.

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...

Communism as a historical phenomenon went through a developmental path from conceptual preparation in political, social and philosophical theories, through historical realization to the final breakdown. Since communism as a constitutive or world-creating principle has permeated all areas of material and spiritual life, it is understandable that as a theoretical problem, or as a...