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Social Changes and Values as a Context in Adult Education

In his paper the author views the problem of relations between social changes and values in transition societies. The first part of the paper points to the problem of conceptual demarcation between social changes and transition processes. Contemplating the relation between late modernization and the transition process in post-socialistic society, the author underlines the meaning of changes of the system of values in transition. The results of empirical research of valuation orientations that the author conducted in 1998 on the territory of Istria point to the existence of different value patterns. Namely, the territory where the research was performed indicated that the most widespread values are ones that are characteristic of the modern society. The modernization processes and valuation orientations in this sense represent a favorable social context for adult education.

social changes, transition, late modernization, values, adult education

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