Način življenja - indikator kriznih in nekriznih stanj
Way of Life - an Indicator of Crisis and of Crisis-free Period

Summary/Abstract: The incorporation of ethnology into the research of broader social processes needs a supplement of its notional apparatus. It seems that the term the way of life is suited for this perfectly. We can view the term in an extremely broad sense. It can substitute concepts such as, for instance, culture or social structure, but it can also be often used when we speak about everyday life of larger or smaller social groups and individuals. The concept is thus useful on the macro- as well as micro level Since the scope of ethnological research is usually - although not necessarily - the so-called micro level which denotes everyday life, ethnologists usually refer to the way of life on everyday level. Social crises, the crises of political and economic nature, naturally directly affect everyday life. Even more: at the same time they also denote the crises of the way of life on the level of everyday life. The fatality of this connection has long since been noted by some politicians as well: one of them was Lev Trocki who had been very occupied with the way of life of people in post-revolutionary Russia. This connection had been, more or less briefly, spoken about in our country as well, but there was no in-depth research of this problem, at least not in ethnology. In view of the general crisis of the socialist social system and thus also the socialist way of life, it would be imperative to find out the role of everyday life in this process. This is the task ethnologists shall not be able to evade, regardless of the outcome of the present overall crisis.

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