TEORIJA DRUŠTVENIH PROMJENA I

After the student passes this exam, he/she will be able to: • Recognize, describe and explain the connection between social structure and social change; • Enumerate and explain the basic terms in the analysis of social changes (growth, development, progress, stagnation, regression, evolution, revolution, etc.); • Understand the socio-cultural meaning of the category of time as a constituent of social changes; • Know the basic characteristics of civilizations and their relationship to time, changes, progress, regression as culturally defined categories of their view of the world; • Explain theoretical approaches in the study of social changes and development (evolutionism, cyclicism, diffusionism, historical school, Marxism, neoevolutionism, modernization theories, dependency theories, etc.).