Senior Lecturer
dipl. (Zagreb), mr. sc. (Dubrovnik/Zagreb)
 

Contact:

Odjel za sociologiju
Sveučilište u Zadru
Obala kralja Petra Krešimira IV, br. 2
23000 Zadar
 
Consultation hours: Tuesdays, 8:30 - 9:30

tel. + 385 (0)23 200 681
fax. +385 (0)23 200 603
mpetric@unizd.hr
 
 

Areas of research interest
 
•    Cultural sociology
•    Qualitative research methods
•    Media theories and methods
•    Contemporary Croatian society

 
Departmental duties

• CEEPUS coordinator of the Department of Sociology, University of Zadar

Current research projects

• Researcher, Relational Gender Identities in Croatia: Modernization and Development Perspectives (GENMOD) (April 2017- April 2021., Croatian Science Foundation (principal investigator: Professor Inga Tomić-Koludrović, Ph. D.).

• Researcher, Approaches to participatory governance of cultural institutions (June 2016 - June 2018, UNESCO – Diversity of Cultural Expressions, coordinating organisation: Zaklada Kultura Nova)

• Researcher, Life-Strategies and Survival Strategies of Households and Individuals in South-East European Societies in the Times of Crisis (June 2014 - June 2016, SCOPES programme of the Swiss National Science Foundation, partners: University of Zürich, University of Maribor, Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, University of Zadar, Economic Institute - Sarajevo, Centre for Empirical Cultural Studies of South-East Europe - Niš).

Journal editorial board

• Member of the editorial board of the journal of Croatian Sociological Society Revija za sociologiju (Sociological Revue).

 
Selected recent publications

Petrić, M., Puzek, I., Tomić-Koludrović, I. (2017). "The Older You Are, the More Sustainable You Get: A Sociological Snapshot of Cultural Tourism at an Eastern Adriatic “Living Heritage Site”", u: Francescato, S., Maierhofer, R., Minghetti, V., Trinkaus, E-M. (ur.), Senior Tourism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging and Traveling, Bielefeld : transcript, 2017, pp. 139-165.

Tomić-Koludrović, I., Petrić, M., Zdravković, Ž. (2015). "Retraditionalization or Reflexive Modernity: A Sociological Explanation of Fertility Trends in Mature Transitional Croatia", u: Cvetičanin, P., Mangova, I., Markovikj, N. (ur.), A Life for Tomorrow: Social Transformations in South-East Europe, Skopje : Institute for Democracy, str. 173-196.

Tomić-Koludrović, I., Petrić, M. (2014). "Class in Yugoslav Socialism and in the Post-Yugoslav Societies: Toward a Bourdieuan Repositioning of the Issue (Part 2) ", Revija za sociologiju, 44 (3), 195-233. doi: 10.5613/rzs.44.3.1
 
Tomić-Koludrović, I., Petrić, M. (2014). "Class in Yugoslav Socialism and in the Post-Yugoslav Societies: Toward a Bourdieuan Repositioning of the Issue (Part 1) ", Revija za sociologiju, 44 (2), 107-137. doi: 10.5613/rzs.44.2.1

Petrić, M. (2013). "Akademski kapitalizam i uloga sociologije", Revija za sociologiju. 43 (3), 273-288.

Selected recent conference papers and lectures

Cvetičanin, P., Tomić-Koludrović, I., Petrić, M., Leguina, A. (2017). "From existential to social class – on the primacy of relations and on the rebirth of mechanical solidarity", Rising inequalities - A NOS-HS workshop (The joint committee for Nordic research councils within the humanities and social sciences), Copenhagen, 15. 9. 2017.

Petric, M., Tomic-Koludrovic, I. (2017). "Modernization processes in the context of institutionally embedded neoliberalism: a theoretical perspective on post-transitional Croatia", 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association - (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities, Athens, 31. 8. 2017.

Tomic-Koludrovic, I., Petric, M., Puzek, I., Zdravkovic, Z. (2017). "The postsocialist transformation of gender relations: the case of Croatia", 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association - (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities, Athens, 30. 8. 2017.

Petrić, Mirko (2016). "In Praise of Sociology of Culture, or: On the Strenghts of the 'Weak Programs'", Emergent Culture - 6th midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association’s Research Network Sociology of Culture (RN7), Exeter, 18. 11. 2016.

Petrić, Mirko; Zdravković, Željka; Tomić- Koludrović, Inga (2016). "Emergent class relations: cultural expressions of existential class in South East Europe", Emergent Culture - 6th midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association’s Research Network Sociology of Culture (RN7), Exeter, 18. 11. 2016.

Petrić, Mirko; Tomić-Koludrović, Inga; Cvetičanin, Predrag (2016). "The Socialist 'Middle Class' Revisited: Consumption-Based Class Distinctions in Four Post-Yugoslav Countries", 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology - The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World , Wien , 11. 7. 2016.

Petrić, Mirko (2016). "Transcending the Status Quo: Media, Intellectuals, Responsibility and Social Change" (plenary lecture), Graz International Summer School Seggau - GUSSEG 2016, 12. 7. 2016.

Links

Bibliography available at: http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=231596

European Expert Network on Culture (EENC): http://www.eenc.info/expert/mirko-petric/