Structural, Social and Historical Changes in Serbian Society in the Context of European Integrations and Globalisation

The main hypothesis is that in the following period the prospects of Serbian society will suffer under pressure of the world economic crisis, global changes and the interests of world powers in the Balkans. Thus we can expect the ongoing world economic crisis, the delay in European integrations and the increasingly transparent nature of globalisation to adversely affect Serbia’s prospects. These new phenomena drive research more than ever towards determining the internal social and economic potential of a Serbia forced to “turn to itself”. By analysing the advanced and mostly transparent process of globalisation, we will focus on the disintegrative factors in society in terms of the negative effects of current European and world events. A special set of questions will be, firstly, the question of Kosovo in the current geopolitical context; secondly, the problem of election and political propaganda in the media, and the problem of value systems in Serbia from the comparative perspective of Eastern European transitional societies; thirdly, a set of questions relating to political sociali¬sation of youth and the middle class. The results so far indicate a chaotic state within society, which highlights the necessity of paying attention to the said social groups. It is clear that the degree of organisation at this level will follow the degree of stabilisation of the democratic value system, as well as that of institutional and political consolidation.