Self Assessment of the Social Influence of Young People and Their Attitudes Towards Change

Tanja Radošević; Goran  Bulatović; Ljiljana  Bulatović

doi:10.25038/am.v0i15.241

Authors

Tanja Radošević
Goran Bulatović
Ljiljana Bulatović

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i15.241

Keywords:

young people, the attitudes of young people, the social impact of youth, attitude towards social change

Abstract

This paper examines the attitudes of young people in Serbia, according to the possibilities for their own social activism and participation in social change in which Serbia is already deeply involved, i.e. it examines social and personal values of young people and their correlation to their readiness to adopt to change. Young people are chosen precisely because they will be custom holders of these changes, i.e. their driving force. Serbian youth is burdened with many problems: unsatisfied with their own financial situation, they struggle to include themselves in the labor market, they are extending their education and rely financially on their parents. Our research has shown that young people do not believe enough in the strength of their own influence in society, and that they were visibly disappointed in institutions of society as a whole. Hypothesis One (H1) of this research – that there is a statistically significant correlation between attitudes towards change and social and personal values of young people in Serbia – has been confirmed, while Hypothesis Two (H2) of this research – that there is a statistically significant difference in the attitudes of young people towards social values, our society, and changes within it, depending on socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents – has been partially confirmed.

Article received: December 30, 2017; Article accepted: January 10, 2018; Published online: April 15, 2018; Original scholarly paper

How to cite this article: Radošević, Tanja, Goran Bulatović, Ljiljana Bulatović. "Self Assessment of the Social Influence of Young People and Their Attitudes Towards Change." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 185–200. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.241

Author Biographies

Tanja Radošević

Tanja Radošević
Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade
Serbia

Tanja Radošević was born in 1979. She graduated in 2004 at Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, department of English Language and Literature. In 2002, she passed the CPE exam at the University of Cambridge. Studied MA studies, with major in PR. Since 2005 she has been working as a lecturer at Faculty of Management in Novi Sad, later in Sremski Karlovci. She defended her Masters’ thesis in 2007, named: Possibilities of managing the European identity of young people in Serbia in the process of joining the EU, at the Faculty of Management in Novi Sad. She has published 20 papers in professional publications, many of them presented at conferences. She worked on project “Innovative culture as a factor in the formation and development of innovation systems”. She published a handbook Elementary English. She has also published a novel in 2010. She is working on her Ph.D. thesis at Faculty for Media and Communication under mentorship of Professor Goran Bulatović.

Goran Bulatović

Goran Bulatović
Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade
Serbia

Goran Bulatović (1961) graduated Sociology and Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad (1986); defended her Ph.D. thesis at Faculty of Management in Novi Sad (2008). He was a visiting lecturer at Universidad Technologico de Moterrey (2009), and lecturer at undergraduate and specialist studies of journalism and TV journalism at NNŠ (2000–2004), and at the Faculty of Management in Sremski Karlovci, Department of Management in Media (2001–2015). He published over a hundred scientific and professional papers. Books: Introduction to the Media (2006), Mass Media (2009), Journalism (2011). He was a member of the program and scientific committees of the national and foreign scientific conferences, and member of the council of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (2015–2018), UNS (Journalist’s Association of Serbia) and IFJ (International Federation of Journalists), researcher on the project “Digital Media Technologies and Social-Educational Changes” (2010–2017) and journalist in TV Novi Sad (1986–2006). He was INTERFER awarded for TV reportage, Sombor (2000).

Ljiljana Bulatović

Ljiljana Bulatović
Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade
Serbia

Ljiljana Lj. Bulatović (1963) graduated at the Faculty of Philosophy in Nikšić. She defended her Ph.D. thesis at Faculty of Management in Sremski Karlovci. She was a visiting lecturer at Universidad Technologico de Monterrey Mexico City (2009), and lecturer at Faculty of Management in Novi Sad, Sremski Karlovci (2006–2014), and at Novi Sad School of Journalism (2000–2004). She has written numerous scientific papers presented at domestic and international conferences, and published in domestic and international journals. Books (co-author): Introduction to the Media (2006), Mass Media (2009), Journalism (2011). She has written many chapters in domestic and foreign monograph studies and thematic journals. She was a member of research team on the project “Digital Media Technologies and Social Educational Changes” (2010–2017), MESTD of the Republic of Serbia. Member of the Program and Scientific Committees of domestic and international scientific conferences, reviewer in domestic and foreign journals, worked on several projects in the field of media. She was a member of: the Managing Board of RTV Vojvodina (2010–2015), UNS (Journalist’s Association of Serbia) and International Federation of Journalists, editor and journalist on RTV Montenegro and RTV Vojvodina.

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