摘要：An enquiry carried out in 167 households and other data show the powerful new processes of deagrarization and deruralization in this region. The traditional self-sustenance agrarian structure has almost completely decayed, and important changes have also taken place in the spatial population distribution. Agricultural production has lost its earlier vital meaning, there is a large number of mixed households, and the transfer of the labour force from primary into secondary and tertiary occupations is becoming increasingly rapid. The structure of the rural population has completely changed not only according to activity and qualification, but there is also an intense process of aging. Only settlements on the main trafficway and in the immediate vicinity of the commune centre are growing demographically and economically stronger, while all the other villages, especially edge ones on Kričko brdo and beside the Sava, are rapidly growing older and more or less dying out. A strong factor influencing these changes is the developed process of industrialization with a concentration of industry in the commune centre (Novska) and a recently started process of dislocation (Lipovljani). Industrialization speeds up deagrarization and deruralization, and also strongly influences greater population mobility (about 52% of the industrial workers employed in Novska do nov live in their place of work). Such structural and spatial changes have also resulted in a variety of ways in which the population satisfies its needs, i. e. in changes in the standard of living, way of life and the attitudes people have towards such questions. A psychological investigation in to values governing work and life has shown that there are still deep marks of tradition in the attitudes of the population, but also many modern conceptions, especial in the outskirts of Novska.
