Nacionalinių vertybių ir miestietiškos sąmonės plėtra: tarpukario Kaunas ir jo priemiesčiai

Abstract

In view of the fact that Lithuanian ethnologists have failed to provide an exhaustive analysis of value orientation in different strata of interwar Kaunas society, the present work seeks to consider the values of urban society through the lifestyle of different social classes, and attempts to reveal the mentality of 1918–1940 Kaunas residents as well as the forms of their national self-expression. The research seeks: (1) to investigate the value orientation of Kaunas intelligentsia and people inhabiting Kaunas’ suburbs, mainly farmers or fishermen; (2) to find out how the town influenced the national awareness of two suburbs of interwar Kaunas, Lampėdžiai and Aleksotas; and (3) to determine the influence produced by urban culture phenomena on the lifestyle, occupation, and cultural self-expression of Aleksotas and Lampėdžiai residents. [...].