Cultural policy of Yugoslav self-management: Conceptual and value bases and modalities

• Main Authors: Kolarić Vladimir M., Vukićević Vuk B.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Serbian Sociological Association, Belgrade 2018-01-01
• Series: Sociološki Pregled
• Subjects: socialist self-management; culture; cultural policy; Yugoslavia
• Online Access: https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0085-6320/2018/0085-63201804230K.pdf

The paper points to the importance of culture in the project of Yugoslav socialist self-management and explores, in the first place, the doctrinal interpretation of culture as a sector, an integrative factor of the socio-political system and conceptual-value regulator. Different modalities of cultural policy are explored in the context of socialist self-management and a model of their classification is proposed, which could more clearly clarify the peculiarities of the cultural policy of socialist self-management and perceive their relevance for our time. Given the understanding of culture as an integral part of the project of establishing a socialist self-managing society, representing its 'core', the failure of the project of Yugoslav socialist self-management could be viewed not as a primarily political or economic one, but as a failure in the field of culture.