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标题：The Social Aspects of Urban Life in the War
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作者：Seferagić, Dušica
期刊名称：Sociology and Space
印刷版ISSN：1846-5526
出版年度：2003
卷号：40
期号：3/4 (157/158)
页码：501-511
出版社：Institute for social research in Zagreb
摘要：This article is an atternpt at a sociological approach to a current event. It speaks about the effects of war on urban (partly also on rural) life. The main effects are: a) drastic demographic changes: the migration of thousands of people from villages and towns destroyed or damaged by the war into settlements spared from war destruction. The »Saigon model« of fleeing from villages into towns in search of safety caused many problems in housing, unemployment, tensions between hosts and irnmigrants, and is threatening a demographic debalance in the whole of Croatia; b) the disfunction of the social and technical public utility system, an adaptation to the decrease of sanitary conditions to amedieval level and retuming to the community as the dominant type of interpersonal relations; c) social disintegration because of national tensions and social homogenization based on the victim principle and nationality temporarily erase norma I social differences, d) psychic problems appear among all people, especially those who lived through the horrors of war and those who fought in the war. The author considers that psychic problems will be the most lasting effect of the war, although they are hidden at first glance: e) urban pathology is rife. Crime and terrorism are increasing. There is also »grey pathology«. black marketing humanitarian aid, weapons etc. While great cities favour these kinds of activities, in villages there is frequent maltreatment, murder and expulsion of the unprotected population; f) all this leads to a great decrease in the quality of life, starting from elementary technical eonditions to more complex social and psychic tension. The basic characteristic of the decreased quality of life is a return to primary needs.
关键词：war; urban life; social system; social disintegration; social homogenization