Jadranka Čačić-Kumpes

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at University of Zadar

This paper aims to attempt to understand attitudes towards immigrants and immigration as a perception of the impact of immigrants and immigration on Croatian society and their changes. It is based on the dynamic version of group conflict theory, which suggests that short-term but intense social changes have a greater effect on shifts in attitudes t...

Starting from the importance attached to ethnicity in contemporary Croatian society, this paper is based on research aimed at exploring the similarities and differences in attitudes regarding ethnic diversity expressed by two family generations in Croatia, secondary school pupils and their parents. The purpose of these attitude comparisons is to tr...

The paper is based upon the results of the research initiated under the assumption that joining the European Union will change Croatia's migratory pattern; namely, the inflow of foreign workers will gradually increase, which will raise the question of their integration into Croatian society. The characteristics of the contemporary migration flows a...

This chapter is based on research concerning changes in the educational approach to ethnic and cultural diversity in relation to substantial social changes in nationally/ethnically and culturally plural Croatian society. The analysis deals with the three multinational states in which Croatia was incorporated, and it shows that, despite significant...

Modern societies are multicultural. This is a simple statement on a complex situation which poses many questions. One of the basic questions – how are relations between different cultures in society regulated – is the theme of this paper. By focusing on two pluralistic approaches to regulating relations between cultures – the multicultural and the...

IN MEMORIAM Vjeran Katunarić (1949. – 2023.).

Through reviewing different and often opposing views on the relationship between Islam and the West, the paper aims to offer a better understanding of this relationship, and of Islamophobia as an old, yet increasingly actual and in many respects relevant social problem. A short historical overview of the understanding of the relationship between Is...

A sociological survey within the scientific project "Intercultural Approach to Ethnic Diversity and Identity: Croatia – Europe" (MZOS 076-0762385-1516; project leader: Jadranka Čačić-Kumpes) was carried out in 2009 on several samples: a representative sample of the adult population of Croatia, a representative sample of secondary school pupils in C...

A sociological survey within the scientific project “Intercultural Approach to Ethnic Diversity and Identity: Croatia – Europe” (MZOS 076-0762385-1516; project leader: Jadranka Čačić-Kumpes) was carried out in 2009 on several samples: a representative sample of the adult population of Croatia, a representative sample of secondary school pupils in C...

A sociological survey within the scientific project “Intercultural Approach to Ethnic Diversity and Identity: Croatia – Europe” (MZOS 076-0762385-1516; project leader: Jadranka Čačić-Kumpes) was carried out in 2009 on several samples: a representative sample of the adult population of Croatia, a representative sample of secondary school pupils in C...

A sociological survey within the scientific project “Intercultural Approach to Ethnic Diversity and Identity: Croatia – Europe” (MZOS 076-0762385-1516; project leader: Jadranka Čačić-Kumpes) was carried out in 2009 on several samples: a representative sample of the adult population of Croatia, a representative sample of secondary school pupils in C...

The paper intends to establish a preliminary foundation for an intercultural approach to ethnic diversity, based on the example of three ethnically plural countries (Croatia, Norway and Slovenia). First, the authors address different theoretical approaches towards the examination of culture, cultural identity and the form of cultural plurality in c...

Croatian translation of the book: Nicholas Abercrombie, Stephen Hill, Bryan S. Turner, THE PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF SOCIOLOGY, Fifth Edition, Penguin Books, London, 2006.

El Instituto de Estudios Migratorios y Étnicos de Zagreb intenta cubrir las preguntas contemporáneas más importantes de movimientos migratorios y de las relaciones étnicas, poniendo la realidad croata en un marco social e histórico más amplio que está dominado por los procesos de globalización y de integración europea. Además, siguiendo el conocimi...

The paper presents an overview of research on ethnicity and on ethnic minorities in Croatia from the early 1990’s until the most recent years at the turn of this century. The authors first review definitions and understandings of the concepts of minority and of ethnicity in the research context, as well as some aspects pertaining to the influence o...

The theme that this paper examines are minorities, or rather ethnic minorities, which are central within the framework of social phenomena and processes linked to the multiethnic and multicultural structure of contemporary societies. Proceeding from the assumption that clarity of concepts is a precondition for understanding and solving problems per...

U radu se analiziraju pluralističke kulturne politike i u okviru njih izrasli koncepti obrazovanja, napose interkulturno obrazovanje. U tom smislu najprije se govori o kulturnome pluralizmu kao svojevrsnom preteči suvremenih pluralističkih kulturnih politika. Slijedi kratko razmatranje multikulturalizma, njegovog teorijskog utemeljenja u kulturnom...

This paper deals with the change of the ethnic structure of Petrinja and its causes that seem to be paradigmatic for ethnically mixed areas in Croatia. Petrinja was chosen due to its bipolar ethnic structure in which the Croats and Serbs constitute the greater part of the population but also owing to the fact that radical changes in the proportion...

Jadranka Čačić-Kumpes's text, Culture, Ethnicity and Education: Indications of Interaction and Perspectives, reminds us that culture, ethnicity and education interact, subject to change according to time and place. The writer tries to show the mutable nature of their relationship, describing it as a circle which commences with the universalism of t...

The thematic framework of this book is made up of the concepts of culture, ethnicity and identity, while the majority of the articles were written in the connection with the second round-table entitled Ethnic Development of European Nations: Croatia — Europe, or for its first and second sub-themes (ethnicity and culture, ethnicity and education), h...

Jadranka Čačić-Kumpes (“Ethnic Diversities in Europe and the Policy of Cultural Pluralism”) discusses two forms of European multiculturalism which European unification should have to take into consideration. The first form, although not necessarily primary, is more recent, and has received new importance after the signing of the Schengen agreement....

The position of tolerance in education is of dual importance: it is both the subject of teaching and a feature of the relationship between the participants in the process of education. It is maintained in this paper that the selection of teaching subject matter as well as the modes and conditions of teaching are equally important. Based on contempo...

In this paper the author analyses, in the context of an intercultural approach, some of the problems pertaining to educating children of migrant origin. She first discusses socializational influence of the school, which is always linked to the influence of the state and dominant culture. Therefore, education of the children of migrant origins is al...

In this paper the author attempts to explain the characteristics of rape on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina after the break-up of socialist Yugoslavia. Applying some basic knowledge on the traits of Bosnian-Herzegovinian patriarchal society, as well as results taken from the sociological theory of rape and war, combined with data on mass ra...

The principal aims of this study are 1. to indicate the complexity of intercultural communication and, related to it, the need for a complex sociological approach to this phenomenon, and 2. to argue in favour of an intercultural concept as one possible premise making intercultural communication possible. The problem of intercultural communication i...

Book review: Aleksandra Ålund and Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Paradoxes of Multiculturalism: Essays on Swedish society, Aldershot, Avebury, 1991.

The paper analyses some basic concepts and problems in respect to ethnicity, conflict and development. In the framework of the theory pertaining to ethnicity and modernisation (and development), a review is given of about fifteen case studies presented at a scientific conference, organised by UNRISD within the project Ethnic Conflict and Developmen...

Is interculturalism a policy that leads to the integration of migrants, or else: can any policy which treats them as a separate group about their integration? The paper provides a critical examination of certain basic concepts (cultural pluralism, interculturalism, integration, culture, ethnicity, migration), as well as some contributions to the st...

The long history of immigration to France by Yugoslavian workers (an estimated 100 000 people of Yugoslavian origin now live in France) is due to French immigration policy, as well as to the historical links between the two countries Franco-Serbian relations were particulary close. We can therefore assume that this is why the largest number of thes...

The long history of immigration to France by Yugoslavian workers (an estimated 100 000 people of Yugoslavian origin now live in France) is due to French immigration policy, as well as to the historical links between the two countries Franco-Serbian relations were particulary close. We can therefore assume that this is why the largest number of thes...