Religious Justifications of Complaints Addressed to the President in Contemporary Russia
Religious Justifications of Complaints Addressed to the President in Contemporary Russia
Author(s): Elena BogdanovaSubject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Центр независимых социологических исследований (ЦНСИ)
Keywords: Situated Sense of Justice; Contemporary Russian Society; Complaints; Sociology of Critical Capacity; Sociology of Justification; Orthodoxy Christianity; President; Authoritarianis; Legitimacy; Justice
Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes religious justifications used by contemporary Russian citizens in filing complaints addressed to the president of the Russian Federation. The concept of critical capacity postulated by Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot is applied as a frame of analysis.
Journal: Laboratorium. Журнал социальных исследований
- Issue Year: 6/2014
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 55-79
- Page Count: 25