Tranzicija i društvo rizika
The Transition and Risk Society

Summary/Abstract: The text indicates the main changes that took place in Bosnian society during the period of post-socialist transition. It is possible to speak about many social changes that occurred in a transitional transformation, in terms of risks. The theoretical framework in which the social risks are about to be considered in this paper is based on the paradigm of the risk society derived by a German sociologist, Ulrich Beck, and it points to some of the risks produced in a chaotic Bosnian social upheavals and transformations. After nearly two decades of experiencing transition, and a series of failures, the question is where Bosnia and Herzegovina as a state and as a society is currently situated, and when and in what form the transition process will be completed. We live in a time when the social scene is entangled with the simultaneous interaction of the risks generated on global and local levels, which are intertwined and which create a series of existential problems. We are facing a double threat, our own nationalism, poverty, corruption, unemployment, social inequality and cohesion of society at risk, as well as global risks. In terms of the reduced capacity of social institutions to establish control over the risks, and the situation in which political elites produce certain social risks themselves, the question is how the existing political structure in Bosnia and Herzegovina could answer their own risks today, and the risks of modern society, and how an individual can accomplish “facing with the consequences of risk society“?

• Details
• Contents