In this study the starting point for
the authors is the thesis that
development influences spatial,
sectorial and time dimensions of
social organization as well as the
nature of indicators which can be
used in valuation of evolutional
changes. The analysis has been
limited to three specific socioecological
contexts of social
organization: 1. change in levels
of territorial social organization,
2. appearance of coherent sectors and
their relationship, and 3. relationship
between the degree and speed of
changes. Each of these dimensions
has been conceived and its
functioning in regard to the
evolutinal changes has been explained.
The authors have tried to explain
the influence of development taking
as the example the Slovenian
communities in the period between
1963 and 1972. Although data for
SR Slovenia are extensive, yet their
selection on the basis of contextual
and methodological criteria is
problematic. Therefore, the empirical
verification of the evolutional law on
local (communal) level as well as on
long-term basis is quite limited. Due
to the inapplicability of some data the
authors have been forced to limit
their analysis to the following three
themes: economic development,
cultural development and development
of communications. The development
of each of these has been controlled
through various selected indicators.
The sector of economic development
has been, for example, measured by
the following indicators: social
product (per capita), number of
industrial enterprises in the
community, agricultural population,
urban population, number of licensed
passanger cars, number of licensed cars for transportation of goods,
number of retail shops, number of
persons employed in secondary and
tertiary sector.
By using the method of main
components the authors have
classified all Slovenian communities
into two groups on basis of positive
and negative factor values (factor
cores), and namely, into more and less
developed communities. The obtained
data show high correlation between
migration and the degree of
development of the community. The
more developed communities attract
relatively more people and have a
smaller proportion of emigrants. This
mobility showe a tendency of growth
towards openess with the higher
degree of development.
The authors have also established
that the economic sector is a more
significant predictor for the speed of
economic development in the less
developed than in the more developed
communities. Similarly, the degree of
economic development is a better
predictor of the speed of
development of communications in
the less developed than in the more
developed communities. On the
contrary, the changes in indicators of
cultural development in the group ot
the less developed communities do
not depend upon the level of
economic development. This leads to
the conclusion that the variations in
the speed of changes reflect more a
definite stage in their growth than the
dependence upon the level of economic development
