Bilješke o društvenom životu sela Stjepan Polje kod Gračanice u drugoj polovini 20. stoljeća, sa posebnim osvrtom na omladinske aktivnosti
Notes on the social life of the village of Stjepan Polje near Gračanica during the second half of the 20th century, with a special focus on youth activities

Summary/Abstract: According to his own memories and with the help of narrators from his own generation, the author tried to describe and recall some forms of social life in the Stjepan Polje village, near Gračanica, during the second half of the last century, focusing especially on the activities of younger people during the sixties. Thus, we received useful records which can be used for a better understanding of certain social processes in the countryside, in the wider area of Northeastern Bosnia during the aforementioned period. From his own experience the author emphasizes the educational significance of voluntary youth work actions during that period, which is often misjudged, and sometimes tendentiously equated with some forms of communist repressions. In the parts in which he remembers the cultural and entertainment, as well as sport programs of the youth, which he himself organized, the author clearly notices the accelerated positive trends, especially after 1965, the processes of modernization and raising the general educational and cultural level in the countryside. Through his work, a certain “transition” can be seen, from traditional way of life and social relations in the countryside towards the more modern forms of the contemporary era.

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