Symbolic Interactionism Approach to Study Socio-Economic Development in Slovenia
Author(s)
Jaklic, Marko
Abstract
At 17,000 USD, Slovenia’s GDP per capita is already higher than that of Greece or Portugal and considerably higher than the GDP per capita in other former socialist countries. It is the underlying hypothesis that Slovenia’s relative success must be explained by those factors that enable different social groups within and between business enterprises to co-operate. This cooperation takes place despite growing political divisions and dramatic shifts in government and ideology, as well as strong reductions in home markets, supply chains and in the internal and external division of labour in enterprises. We propose to explain this situation of social cohesion, which enables different social groups to continuously play surprisingly identical economic roles despite political transitions, to be a consequence of the close relationship between village communities and industrial enterprises. By understanding these patterns of interacting strategies in a historical and institutional context, a framework emerges which depicts the distinct industrial dynamics of a given society.
