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The Meanings of the Community and of the Individual in Slovakia and in Scotland

✍ Scribed by ELEANOR MOODIE; IVANA MARKOVÁ; ROB FARR; JANA PLICHTOVÁ

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
532 KB
Volume
7
Category
Article
ISSN
1052-9284

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✦ Synopsis

The purpose of this paper was to examine meanings of the terms individual', the community' and local community' in Slovakia and Scotland. The social, cultural, political and economic histories of these two small European nations are quite different. Slovakia is one of the post-communist countries in which rapid changes have recently taken place. In contrast, Scotland has enjoyed a relatively stable parliamentary democracy within the UK. Two groups of respondents, 200 from Slovakia and 200 from Scotland, were presented with a word association task which included 38 political and economic terms and with two scales containing the same list of terms. They rated phenomena referring to these terms with respect to their importance for the well-being of the individual and to the well-being of the community. The results suggest that for Scots but not for Slovaks, the term local community' evokes positive associations and that local community is a meaningful concept. The data suggest that local attachments and loyalties were destroyed in Slovakia during communism. (# 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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