Željka Tonković- Professor (Associate) at University of Zadar
Željka Tonković
- Professor (Associate) at University of Zadar
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This article juxtaposes a Bourdieusian and an occupation-based approach to social class in order to explore how they converge or diverge when it comes to empirically identifying high-level class groups and exploring the relationship between ‘objective’ class position and class self-identification in Croatia. The data for this study comes from a sur...
The field of cultural consumption features an abundant body of research addressing the relationship between the local and global. While this research concentrates on issues of cultural repertoires and socio-economic context, the investigation of values continues to be been under-researched. An extended interpretation of the concept of banal cosmopo...
Using data from a large survey (N = 2736) of high school students in six major cities of Adriatic Croatia, this paper examines the relationship between cultural consumption, values and parental cultural capital. In order to identify the main dimensions that structure the space of cultural practices and taste, multiple correspondence analysis was em...
The research on social network analysis established the existence of class homophily, the tendency that personal networks are homogeneous in the class sense, as one of the governing patterns. This is explained via two main mechanisms: choice homophily and induced homophily. But the literature focused less on the question how can class boundaries be...
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, adherence to epidemiological measures was proved related to the information exchanged through personal networks. However, there is still limited evidence on the effect of specific network properties. Using data from a randomised national sample of adults in Croatia (N = 765), we examine the role of vari...
apital and as a pattern of consumption within the local and global cultural structure in Croatia. Data analysis is extracted from the survey ‘Social Stratification in Croatia: Structural and Subjective Aspects’, conducted on a nationally probabilistic sample of adult Croatian citizens. Factor analysis discovered two main dimensions of television pr...
SAŽETAK Iz aspekta kulturne politike i istraživanja u kulturi nedostaje poznavanje i razumije-vanje načina rada kulturnih centara kao ustanova u kulturi višeslojne prirode te njihove pove-zanosti s kontekstom unutar kojeg djeluju. To obuhvaća pristupe u upravljanju, programiranju i financiranju, kao i odnose s osnivačima i zajednicom u planiranju n...
Članak predstavlja rezultate anketnog istraživanja provedenog na uzorku mladih
volontera iz cijele Hrvatske (N = 314). Istraživanje je bilo namijenjeno mladima u dobi od 15 do 34 godine koji su u prethodna 24 mjeseca sudjelovali u najmanje jednoj volonterskoj aktivnosti. Svrha je ovog rada ispitati povezanost između volonterske motivacije, vrijedno...
The tattoo, once an indicator of belonging to subculture, deviant, and marginalized groups, or specific occupations, has become mainstream. Given that their social world has not yet been studied in much detail, this research aimed to explore the work experiences of tattoo artists. For the purposes of the research, semi-structured interviews with ta...
The paper analyses social causes of loneliness in Europe using cross-national data from the 2017 International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) module "Social Networks and Social Resources" from 13 countries categorised as Northern Europe, Continental Europe, and Central and Eastern Europe. The paper aims to examine loneliness with regard to three sp...
This presentation discusses the findings of the quantitative survey (N = 350) on cultural consumption patterns in Croatia during the quarantine period.
Kada postavimo pitanje kakvo je stanje s rodnom (ne)jednakosti u Hrvatskoj i kakve trendove možemo uočiti u posljednjih trideset godina, suočavamo se s dilemom na što staviti fokus. Rodna nejednakost je složen društveni problem koji egzistira u svim sferama svakodnevnog života i koji se u suvremenim društvima pokušava adresirati tzv. multisektorski...
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Despite the abundance of research on television genre preferences, the role of cultural capital has so far received little attention. This research employs Pierre Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital – and related theories of cultural consumption – to argue that there is a relationship between the respondents' television preferences and...
In the literature, fisheries dependency in terms of high economic importance of fishing activity in a local community, is related to the increased degree of economic vulnerability. On the basis of case study of Kali, island community in Croatia that has been selected as an example of highly fisheries dependent community, this paper presents positiv...
The aim of this research was to investigate how the students at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar perceive some aspects in the process of quality teaching. For the purspose of the research we constructed a questionnaire with 80 particles investigating perception of professors1 lectures, professors, seminars, exams, student-professor relations with...
The main goal of this article is to establish whether there is a connection between cultural
consumption, social inequality and regional differences in Croatia based on data collected
from the Eurobarometer survey in 2013. In the first part of the article different theoretical approaches
are presented, explaining precise determinants of cultural co...
Rad polazi od koncepta kulturnoga kapitala Pierrea Bourdieua i razlikovanja utjelovljenog, objektiviranog i institucionaliziranog kulturnog kapitala, pri čemu je temeljni cilj rada ispitati poveza-nost kulturnih preferencija srednjoškolaca i raznih oblika kultur-noga kapitala njihovih roditelja. Podaci su prikupljeni anketnim istraživanjem učenika...
The article starts from Pierre Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital and differentiation between embodied, objectified and institutionalized cultural capital. The main goal of the article is to research the connection between cultural preferences of high-school students and the different forms of cultural capital of their parents. Empirical data w...
Island communities in Croatia are becoming increasingly tourism-oriented which has complex consequences for the local population and socio-economic structure. The aim of this paper is to explore the different types of tourism development and their impact on local communities. The paper is based on the results of a multiple case study of three local...
In reference to the studies of Vera Kružić Uchytil and Olga Maruševski, in which they focused on the early participations of Croatian artists in exhibitions at the turn of the 20th century, the authors have here applied a new methodological approach, developed through the Artnet - Modern and Contemporary Artists Practices of the 20th and 21st Centu...
Using interdisciplinary methodology, this paper analyses the annual exhibitions of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art Zagreb (SCCA-Zagreb) held between 1993 and 1998, as a place of networking within the Croatian visual arts scene. In addition to approaching the work of the SCCA-Zagreb in the transitional context and the exhibitions of the SCCA i...
SAŽETAK: Članak se bavi analizom i interpretacijom rezultata istraživanja o odnosu glazbenog ukusa i vrijednosnih orijentacija kao nekih aspekata identiteta srednjoškolaca u Zadru. Istraživanje je provedeno 2014. godine metodom anketnog upitnika (N = 868) na uzorku polaznika trećih i četvrtih razreda srednjih škola u Zadru. Instrument se sastojao o...
In the presentation we compare case studies of three local communities and tourist destinations on the island of Brač: Povlja (2008), Postira (2013) and Bol (2015). Data are gathered using semi-structured interviews with various types of actors within each local community, as well as documentation and statistical data analysis. In an attempt to add...
In this article cultural consumption of youth in Zadar is analysed and interpreted. In the first section of the text important theoretical approaches to cultural consumption are presented together with an overview of the research of cultural consumption and lifestyles of youth in Croatia. The central part of the article presents results and analysi...
Shopping centers are a specific product and symbol of the consumer society and culture and
their appearance one of the most visible signs of the post-socialist cities’ transformation.The
paper points to the connection between the process of decentralization and suburbanization
of retailing and the transformation of the town center. The first object...
In this article, the main findings of research conducted at the shopping centre Supernova in Zadar (N = 470) are presented and interpreted. Starting from a conceptual framework that distinguishes hedonic (expressive) and utilitarian (instrumental) shopping orientation, the main objective of the study was to investigate the prevalence of hedonic and...
The article shows the results of the case study of Postira, a village and a municipality on the island of Brač (Croatia) and presents a positive example of sustainable community development on islands in the post-transition social context. Based on the theory of sustainable local community development and its four pillars (economic, ecological, soc...
Prostor jadranskih otoka, pa tako i otočnih sela, uslijed ekonomskih i društvenih
transformacija od početka tranzicije doživljava kompleksne promjene u svojoj
društvenoj i prostornoj strukturi. Zbog sveprisutne depopulacije, kao i zbog napuštanja
tradicionalnih aktivnosti i gospodarskih grana, mnoge lokalne zajednice na otocima
stavljene su u polož...
The paper presents the case study of Postira, a small place on the island of Brač. The reason for choosing this place is its specific development: there, marine fish production, agriculture, fishing and tourism are equally developed, which contributes to the balanced progress of Postira. The main hypothesis of our research is that Postira is a posi...
