Kriza moderniteta

Abstract

The paper lakes as a starting point Gidden's thesis thal concurrently with the process of globalization kinship relations are being strengthened, local community attachment, religion and tradition, and in the process of modernization abstract system of bonds and relations do not represent any more the framework of ontological confidence since the local community particularly becomes an important place of security, the place where existential and social insecurity are more easily endured. Implementing the investigation of public opinion of women in the place of Pakoštane the authors conclude that locality is the place where, nevertheless, local and global influences are interwoven, that small places are not a protected oasis of assigned and quite strongly entrenched attitudes which do not change, and thal it is about a relevant but at the same time not about the most important habitat of personal security in the process of modernization. The investigation showed that in the Pakoštane case the order of main security centers is based, first of all, on kinship relations, tradition, religion, and only then on locality.