Транзиција и модернизација
Transition and Modernization

Summary/Abstract: On basis of everything, it can be clearly concluded that the process of transition does not bring with itself forces of modernization and stimuli, but essentially arouse conservatism at many social fields. At all that, like technical- technological modernization may endanger social progress, reconservation of one society may bring the same danger for the survival of the society. The society must not rest only on traditionalism, on ossified and long ago surpassed values, but on progressive comprehension of tradition as preservation of the essential national values, characteristics, national and cultural identity, with modernization that is necessary for the real progress of that society. Therefore, modern comprehension of tradition and traditional comprehension of modernization are the answer to the question concerning the relation between these ideas. Unfortunately, the forces that were the bearers of the transition performed in Serbia after the year 2000 did not manage to understand this. The consequence is establishing of the “society of the peripheral capitalism”, Serbia in which the “regressive capitalism” is on the scene, the state in which modernization has not even started yet, although the transitional processes are in progress and some of them, like the privatization, have been already finished. That is why we can conclude with confirmation of our starting thesis that the transition is in its essence an anti- modernization process, at least regarding the manner of its implementation in Serbia.

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