PORODIČNI VREDNOSNI SISTEM MLADIH U REPUBLICI SRPSKOJ
FAMILY VALUE SYSTEM OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA

Summary/Abstract: Family value systems have always attracted researchers’ attention. A large number of studies have been dedicated to analysis of primary sociocultural determinants which influence the creation and maintenance of the certain values. On the basis of date from an empirical research, in this paper we will analyse the dominant value patterns of young people related to marriage, family, parenthood and which factors influence them. We have placed the research within the theoretical concept of patriarchal value system, so common for our region, and take into consideration the research results during few past decades which indicate to a kind of polarisation of family values for young people. At the beginning of the paper, apart from theoretical framework, we analyse primary directions of family changes in modern society and associated value and normative systems. In the second part of the paper, we present the research results: dominant value patterns and their correlation with gender, place of residence, marital status of examinees’ parents, cultural capital and family material status of young people. Survey research has been carried out on quota sample of 226 examinees, student population. The given results confirms the thesis of value polarisation (but still dominant traditional, patriarchal value system) and the influence of some socio-demographic characteristics on value system. Namely, modern family values have been accepted more from girls than from boys, as well as those who are from families with higher material status and greater cultural capital. Place of living and parents’ marital status do not influence the values model young people would acquire. The results, also, prove that a matrix of family values in case of young people includes high appreciation of family as it is. It has been respected, because in a society of intensive transformations and risks, it offers feeling of security to an individual.

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