741 University Students’ Attitudes about Morality Crisis Today Gordana Budimir Ninković and Nenad Stevanović Faculty of Education Jagodina, University of Kragujevac Abstract This paper presents and analyzes the attitudes of university students on presence, characteristics, causes and ways to overcome the crisis of morality. The aim of this study was to determine whether and how students recognize the presence of a morality crisis in our society, as well as the causes of this phenomenon. Also, the intention of the authors of this paper is to determine students’ attitudes about the connection between morality crisis and the role of school, family and other social institutions. In particular, it highlights the role of the family, schools, media, and their mutual cooperation in moral education. Furthermore, one of the aims of this study was to determine the extent to which students are consistent in their moral actions. This paper presents and explains verbally expressed students’ attitudes about moral issues, as well as data obtained by empirical research. The general impression is that the students are aware of the presence of morality crisis, of the main characteristics and causes of the crisis, as well as partial ideas about ways of coping with it. However, the dominating attitudes of students are fear, pessimism, uncertainty and distrust in their own abilities. Also, a significant number of students, according to their attitudes, express inconsistency in their moral actions. Key words: education; family; morality crisis; school; students Introduction We live in an age characterized by marked uncertainty, concern, crash of the set system of values, which is the period of political, economic, and institutional transition. In such a situation crisis of morality values and of the social norms is expected to arise. The social turmoil from recent years, both in our country and worldwide, influenced in a destabilizing manner all elements of society – family, education, economics, as well as other institutions based on the heritage of civilization. It is striking that a family spends most of its resources ensuring mere existence and on Croatian Journal of Education Vol:15; No.3/2013, pages: 741-776 Preliminary communication Paper submitted: 31 st May 2012 Paper accepted: 7 th December 2012 brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk