The major social and political changes resulted in the falter of the position of tradition and its drastic change in the 21stcentury. All these have started the degradation of the previous patterns of communities. Tradition and its sustaining social frame is in a constant change: in the 21st century even in rural communities everyday life is determined by the processes of modernization and globalization, respectively the wide spreading of the informational and communicational devices.

What happens to tradition in the classic meaning of the word, respectively what can be considered tradition in the era of existence built on translocal and transnational networks? What does tradition and everyday life mean in the times of accentuated trans-border migration and changing medial environment? Which are the social and economic consequences of the change of tradition on the level of local communities? How does it influence the conditions of ethnic cooperation?