ZADRUGA AND WESTERNIZATION: SERBIAN COMMUNITY IN CATCH-UP MODERNIZATION (THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH – EARLY 20TH CENTURIES)

Abstract

The article deals with the evolution of the Serb community (zadruga) under the influence of overtaking moderniza tion (Westernization) in the second half of the XIXth – early XXth centuries. It is concluded that in the context of Wes ternization zadruga changed; split; but it remained a public institution up to the beginning of the XXth century.

Keywords

• serbia
• catch-up modernization
• westernization
• community
• zadruga