期刊名称:International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies
印刷版ISSN:1855-3362
出版年度:2008
卷号:1
期号:1
出版社:Euro-Mediterranean University
摘要:soft social infrastructure ( ssi) is defined as 'beingborn with the emergence of a social unit and subordinated to unwrit-ten rules of human relations'. The core of this structure is social cap-ital which gives power to ssi to operate and regulate the behaviourof a social unit. An attempt to outline the mechanism of basic ssicomponents formation in a multicultural setting is presented. It de-scribes a complicated structure, the study of which requires a systemapproach integrating ssi within the whole social unit as a system.One of crucial problems in creating a contributive and adequatelyoperating ssi is the cultural integration between majority and mi-nority groups. This paper studies ways of integrating minorities withthe rest of population and in this way turns them into an indivisi-ble part of society. In order to complete the interaction successfullymany conditions have to be fulfilled, including a change in social atti-tudes towards minorities, a rise in their standard of living, overcomingprejudices towards minorities, etc