Open AccessSerbia and (anti)heroes
Author(s) -
Olivera Pavičević,
Biljana Simeunović-Patić
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
sociologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.174
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2406-0712
pISSN - 0038-0318
DOI - 10.2298/soc0502161p
Subject(s) - dichotomy , alternation (linguistics) , meaning (existential) , space (punctuation) , sociology , object (grammar) , social space , epistemology , social psychology , psychology , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence , linguistics
The paper considers a development and social meaning of social heroes, as well as the substance, functions and dichotomies of heroism, with particular view on those conditions in a social system that enable and facilitate a mutual approximation and symbolic and functional alternation of its diverse categories. The situation in Serbia during the last two decades was particularly the object of attention in an attempt to fortify the assumption that extreme turbulent processes inside the social space, followed by willing and substantial antisocial activity of certain favorably positioned groups, as well as by specific processing of social reality by those unfavorably positioned, "ordinary" people, make possible the conversion of classic antiheroes into social heroes