Moral (dis)order and social anomie

Concepts of community and society in post-socialist Serbia

Marina, Simić

Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU

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http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-08611601093S

2016-2020/03/24/14:53:41

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]

society, morality, community, anomie, post-socialist Serbia