Vol.1, No 5, 1997 pp. 41 - 49
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MEANING OF THE SOCIAL CHANGES IN THE END OF 90'S
Petar Hafner
Faculty of Economics, University of Niš, Trg VJ 11, 1800 Niš, Yugoslavia

Abstract. Social changes in the end of 90's are connected with: appearance of the scientific technological revolution as an universal social phenomenon that, more or less, permeates all segments of the society and all concrete global societies; expansion of the market model of the economy; explosive increasing of the ecological problems in planetary proportions.
Meaning of such social changes is in contradictory structure of the social processes in which crisis and developing tendencies (example of the societies in transition), destructive and constructive processes, destroying of the existing and creating of the new are born. The need for critical observation and evaluation of such processes is necessary even during the social - economic analysis of the transiting societies ad theirs economies in market economies and democratic pluralistic society.

SMISAO DRUŠTVENIH PROMENA KRAJEM DEVEDESETIH
Društvene promene krajem devedesetih povezane su sa: nastupon naučno-tehnološke revolucije kao univerzalne društvene pojave koja u manjoj ili većoj meri prožima sve segmente durštva i sva konkretna globalna društva; širenjem tržišnog modela privređivanja; eksplozivnim narastanjem ekoloških problema u planetarnim razmerama. Smisao takvih društvenih promena je u protivurečnoj strukturi socijalnih procesa u kojima se rađaju i krizne i razvoje tendencije (primer društava u tranziciji), procesi destrukcije i konstruktivni procesi, razaranja postojećeg i stvaranja novog. Potreba kritičkog sagledavanja i vrednovanja takvih procesa nužna je i prilikom socio-ekonomske analize trazitornih društava i njihovih ekonomija u tržišnu privredu i demokratsko pluralističko društvo.