Nacija i opozicija - Problem modernizacije hrvatskog društva
Nation and Opposition. Problem of the Modernization of the Croatian Society

Summary/Abstract: By using the analytical framework of the theory of modernization, the author analyses the fundamental features of social community in postmodern society in which it rests on kinship, religion, and cultural patterns. In modern society a new form of social community is established — nation. It emerges within a constituted political framework as a community of individuals, subordinated to an integral legal framework. Contrary to the western model of “state-nation” there is the easteuropean model of “culture-nation” or ethnic nation which might be said to be an uncompletely modernized social community. The dominating model in Croatia is one of the cultural or ethnic community. The consequences of such a model are the strengthening of autoritharian tendencies and the arrested development of democracy. In such a concept of social community there is no place for opposition. In Croatia, cultural and political modernization in the direction of social community with a more prominent role of intellectual elites and other social actors is vital.

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