ПОСЉЕДИЦЕ ДРУШТВЕНЕ КРИЗЕ И АНОМИЈЕ У САВРЕМЕНОМ ДРУШТВУ УТИЦАЈ КОНЗУМЕРИЗМА И ЕКСТРИНЗИЧКИХ ЦИЉЕВА НА АНКСИОЗНОСТ И ДЕПРЕСИЈУ МЛАДИХ
CONSEQUENCES OF SOCIAL CRISIS AND ANOMY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: THE INFLUENCE OF CONSUMERISM AND EXTRINSIC GOALS ON YOUTH ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION

Summary/Abstract: The research problem refers to the difficulties of people with mental health caused by current forms of social crisis (corona-virus pandemic and post-covid phase of repairing "damage"). The research subject is the consequences of social crisis and anomie in contemporary society on a global level, in the first half of the 21stcentury. The focus is on the question: Do consumerism and extrinsic goals affect the problem of anxiety and depression of young people, which often results in a mixed, anxiety-depressive, 'disorder' of personality? The research goals are the scientific description and understanding, from the point of view of one of the causes of the problem - consumerism ('alienation from meaningful values') and related extrinsic goals that are in the function of reproduction of instrumental-rational action. Structural analysis of the problem will be expanded by social facts of a higher theoretical and mental order - social crisis, anomie, alienation and a sociality. All 9scientifically proven causes (causal explanations) of the problem will be explained, with an emphasis on 7 sociocultural factors, while little attention will be paid to non-social causes. The scientific prediction of the influence of anxiety and depression, i.e. mixed personality imbalance on potential delinquency, will also be sought, as an analytical category, which more easily justifies the security control of the population by state coercive apparatuses. The main method is structural analysis, based on an understanding and explicit approach to the phenomenon, but also an 'antipsychiatric' approach. The results refer to 9 (for sociology - discoveries) scientifically proven causes of anxiety and depression (according to scientific research, synthesized by Johan Harry): 1) 'alienation from meaningful work', 2) 'alienation from other people', 3) 'alienation from meaningful values', 4) 'alienation from childhood trauma', 5) 'alienation from status and respect', 6) 'alienation from the world of nature', 7) 'alienation from an optimistic and secure future' and 8) and 9) 'the role of genes and changes in the brain'. Sensitivity was shown for current and important issues of social life and their classical and modern conceptualization, as well as for proposing unexpected ways of solving them.

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