CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS OF DEMOCRATIZATION AND EQUALITY IN NATIONAL SYMBOLISMS AS ONE OF THE STRUCTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF EASTERN POPULISM
CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS OF DEMOCRATIZATION AND EQUALITY IN NATIONAL SYMBOLISMS AS ONE OF THE STRUCTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF EASTERN POPULISM

CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS OF DEMOCRATIZATION AND EQUALITY IN NATIONAL SYMBOLISMS AS ONE OF THE STRUCTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF EASTERN POPULISM

Summary/Abstract: ABSTRACT:Populism in the Balkans and Eastern Europe has unique structural basis that havearrived from specific social, political and cultural characteristics of these regions. Socialperception of the ideas of democratization and equality, through its historical evolutionin the West has been starting a kind of unique evolution in the East, where the socialperception of the same ideas, passing through the sphere of cultural structures and incorporatingitself in the unique mechanisms of social dynamics was creating many newhistorical phenomenon. These processes have created foundations for the future socialand historical development of political and cultural structures of Eastern populism.By using relatively young methodological principals of socio-cultural analysesof the symbols, which are in modern social sciences equally used by the schools ofneo-structuralism and post-modern symbolism despite their theoretical differences,this text will try to offer a modest contribution to the enlightenment of long-term socialand historical processes which have created modern Eastern populism, and at the sametime shaped its mechanisms of evolution and self-preservation. And, by connectinghistorical evolution of the cultural symbolisms with the evolution of social structures,this text will try to give its contribution to the process of discovering patterns in thenetwork of causes and consequences that we understand as our past, and of the waysin which these patterns transcend into the outer manifestations of long-term historicalprocesses, which we comprehend as our political reality.

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