Keywords
modernisation trends
individualisation
societal cycles
Slovenia
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Abstract
The article analyses the decline of reflexivity in Slovenia based on four waves of a national survey conducted between 2018 and 2024. The findings reveal a consistent reduction in reflexivity levels, contradicting the linear expectations of modernisation trends of individualisation, universalisation, structural differentiation, and rationalisation. Instead, the results suggest growing instability within prevailing cultural frameworks and value systems, indicating a shift away from individualistic and materialistic orientations. These trends imply that social change may be better understood through cyclical rather than linear models, reflecting generational replace- ment or broader transformations in the cultural foundations of late modern societies.
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