Open AccessAgriculture and the changes of the social structure: the case of Serbia
Author(s) -
Srdjan Sljukic
Publication year - 2006
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/soc0602137s
Subject(s) - agriculture , economic geography , social structure , dimension (graph theory) , economic system , sociology , point (geometry) , transition (genetics) , social change , political science , political economy , positive economics , economics , economic growth , geography , politics , mathematics , law , geometry , archaeology , pure mathematics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
In this paper the author stresses the importance of the changes in the vertical dimension of social structure in CEE societies, focusing on the recent (from 1989) changes of the social structure in agriculture in Serbia. After a short historical review, the causes, the way and the results of these changes are analyzed. Furthermore, the situation in Serbia is compared with situations in some other CEE societies, with an attempt to explain the differences and find similarities. The changes of the social structure in agriculture in Serbia are discussed from the point of the stability of society and from the point of evolutionary capacity. The author concludes that the presented and discussed changes of the social structure in agriculture support the claim that, when speaking about structural changes in CEE societies in the last sixteen years, the notion of "transformation" is more useful in explanation than the notion of "transition"