Open AccessEconomic foundations of conflicts and solidarity within the traditional rural community of Slovenia
Author(s) -
Žarko Lazarević
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
acta universitatis lodziensis. folia sociologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-4850
pISSN - 0208-600X
DOI - 10.18778/0208-600x.77.02
Subject(s) - legitimacy , solidarity , cohesion (chemistry) , feeling , social capital , economic justice , sociology , element (criminal law) , political science , political economy , economic system , law , social psychology , economics , politics , psychology , chemistry , organic chemistry
The following article focuses on the economic conflicts in the local rural communities in Slovenia until World War II and analyses the example of the privatisation of a public good, the relations between labour and capital, and economic solidarity in form of cooperatives as a tool for ensuring social cohesion at the local level. The author presents a viewpoint that the feeling of social justice (moral economy) represented a cohesive element in the analysed local communities. Justice, defined according to the rules of traditional law, provided the relations in the local communities with a status of legitimacy. If the feeling of justice was questioned, then the legitimacy of the social relations and consequently the cohesion of the local communities were uncertain as well.