The changes of value orientation of young people in the period of the post-socialist transformation

This paper analyzes the changes in value orientations of young peoplein the period of the post-socialist transformation in relation to theperiod prior to the collapse of socialism. The aim of the research isto determine the intensity and direction of change in value orientations:gender inequality, intolerance, nationalism, organicism, religiosity,political and economic liberalism and market fundamentalism.Changes in value orientations are interpreted as the product of theprocess of social change: modernization, retraditionalization and systemicchanges