ABSTRACT
"Special education" most certainly requires "special children." Yugoslavia has its share of such growth industries which are attempting to bring the individual into conformity with socially acceptable norms. The uniqueness of Yugoslavia lies in the search for new definitions which would serve as norms in a self-managerial society. The major normative variable in Yugoslavia which has been consistently maintained since World War II is a commitment to self reliance and independence. Yugoslavia's expulsion from the Cominform in 1948 was a symptom and result of the consistent policy on the part of the Partisan Movement which had always transcended the narrow bounds of partiinost. The Yugoslavs were charged with revisionist communism in a Soviet-sponsored effort to label Yugoslavia as a society deviating from Soviet norms. The richer the society, the more physicists, psychologists, various diagnostic facilities, prisons, and the like will attempt to define deviance.
