Konstrukcija starosti - štampa o domovima za stare (1945-1960)

Abstract

Za proučavanje procesa u kojem je starost, kao društveni problem, mnogo puta 'nastajala' i 'nestajala' iz žiže društvene javnosti, poslužiće novinska građa objavljena u periodu od kraja II svetskog rata do kraja 50-ih godina u dnevnim listovima 'Borba' i 'Politika'. Na osnovu nje, biće moguće pokazati jednu od osnovnih postavki konstrukcionizma koja vodi stvarnosti viđenoj kao, tj. uzroke koji su doveli do toga da se ovaj društveni problem koji otpočinje stvaranjem građanskog društva u Srbiji XIX veka, u odabranom razdoblju 'vidi' kao upravo konstruisan. Na ovaj način biće moguće razjasniti kako pre postaje posle, odnosno zbog čega se kao o 'prvom' staračkom domu u Beogradu piše o onom koji je izgrađen tek 1959. godine.

Newspaper texts published in the period between the end of World War II and the late 1950s in the Belgrade dailies Borba and Politika have been analyzed for the purpose of studying the process of how old age, as a social issue has repeatedly 'appeared' and 'disappeared' from the public eye. These texts illustrate one of the fundamental tenets of constructionism that leads to reality perceived as, and provide insight into the reasons that this social problem, which dates back to the emergence of a bourgeois civil society in 19th century Serbia, was perceived in the period studied as just constructed. In this way, it is possible to explain how before becomes after, and why newspapers refer to an old people's home built no earlier than 1959 as the 'first' home of its kind in Belgrade.