A Study of the Social and Economic Position and Reactions of rural Youth

In the introductory part of his article the author notes that the sociological, socio-psychological, anthropological and economic investigations concerned with the youth (i. e. persons between 14 and 25) have recently become so numerous that it is no exaggeration to say that this is one of the themes which currently attract the greatest attention of scientists and all poeple interested in the results of the scientific investigations. However, an examination of current or completed investigations of the youth will immediately reveal an interesting fact: practically all these investigations — both domestic and foreign — are almost exclusively concerned with the problems of young people living in towns while the problems of young people living in rural districts are sadly neglected. The author is trying to supply an answer to the question why the investigators devote so little attention to these young people for he finds that this lack of scientific interest in them has no justification. In conclusion the author discusses some results of an empirical investigation of the social position of rural youth carried out by the Department for Rural Sociology of the Agrarian Institute in Zagreb as he believes them to be of considerable scientific interest