Moral (dis)order and social anomie: Concepts of community and society in post-socialist Serbia
It is sometimes argued that post-socialist transformation in Europe brought so called “moral disintegration” of local communities. These ideas resonate well with the opinions of many people with whom I worked in Serbia during my fieldwork research in Novi Sad in the mid- 2000s and again in...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2016/0350-08611601093S.pdf |
| Summary: | It is sometimes argued that post-socialist transformation in Europe brought
so called “moral disintegration” of local communities. These ideas resonate
well with the opinions of many people with whom I worked in Serbia during my
fieldwork research in Novi Sad in the mid- 2000s and again in 2013-2014. My
informants tend to evoke the Durkheimian idea that society was brought into
existence by people’s moral beliefs and sense of obligation towards one
another; if this became eroded, society begins to suffer from anomie. In this
paper I investigate those widely shared beliefs and the ways they relate to
and reveal the ideas about morality, community and society. [Projekat
Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177026: Cultural Heritage and
Identity] |
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| ISSN: | 0350-0861 2334-8259 |