ВРЕДНОСНЕ ОРИЈЕНТАЦИЈЕ МЛАДИХ
VALUE ORIENTATIONS OF YOUTH

Summary/Abstract: Values, as general and permanent orientations, indicate the goals that individuals (and groups) consider desirable and strive to achieve - they outline and direct a person's life and his actions in society. The continuity of the duration of certain social structures creates favorable conditions for the acceptance of a system of values and value orientations suitable to them and leads to their reproduction. In the conditions where numerous changes transform the "nature" of society, the system of values and value orientations of members of society, including youth, also changes. In debates about values, the prevailing opinion today is that societies are going through the so-called crisis of values, conditioned by systemic changes (transition, neoliberalism, globalization, digitalization), as well as that young people are in a somewhat of a crisis of values: certain values and orientations become more emphasized than others, which leads to a change in value priorities. The subject of this paper are the value orientations of youth, primarily student youth in contemporary Serbian society. The aim of the work is to determine the spread of value orientations characterized by focus on 1) individual goals and 2) social goals within the student population. The basic assumption is that values aimed at social goals are more widespread among students. The paper presents the results of a micro-research that included students of bachelor and master academic studies at the Faculty of Education in Jagodina. The descriptive-analytical method and surveying technique were used in the work.

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