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ANALYSIS OF A CULTURAL CONSENSUS MODEL OF TWO GOOD-LIFE SUB-DOMAINS – HEALTH & WELL-BEING AND MIGRATION & SOCIOECONOMIC MILIEU – IN THREE POPULATION GROUPS IN CROATIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2014

LANA PETERNEL ,
ANA MALNAR  and
IRENA MARTINOVIĆ KLARIĆ
LANA PETERNEL*
Affiliation:
Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
ANA MALNAR
Affiliation:
Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
IRENA MARTINOVIĆ KLARIĆ
Affiliation:
Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
*
1Corresponding author. Email: lanapeternel@idi.hr
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Summary

In this study the construct of a ‘good life’ was explored among upper secondary school senior pupils and their parents and teachers by applying cultural consensus model analysis. A total of 469 students, 474 parents and 158 teachers from four Croatian cities participated in the study, which was conducted in 2011/2012. The information collected through interviewing and free-listing during the first phase of the study was used to create a set of structured questionnaire questions as a part of the survey in the second phase of data collection. The results are reported on two good-life sub-domains: ‘health & well-being’ and ‘migration & socioeconomic milieu’. The results indicate heterogeneity of the sample groups, incomplete inter-generational transmission of cultural values and examples of two sub-groups that resist cultural norms and do not comply with the dominant ‘competence-as-sharing’ paradigm. The value of testing the cultural consensus model based on the emic approach and locally significant phenomena is demonstrated for planning and conducting holistic anthropological research.

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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 47 , Issue 4 , July 2015 , pp. 469 - 492
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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