Researching Lay Perceptions of Inequality through Images of Society
Compliance, Inversion and Subversion of Power Hierarchies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2323486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexandrina Vanke (0000-0003-4347-3740, Institute of Sociology of the Federal Centre of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 587-604 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00380385231194867 |
| OpenAlex | W4386220197 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 27 |
Increased inequalities around the globe have led social researchers to invent innovative methodologies to study how people subjectively perceive inequality and imagine society. This article presents the development of an arts-informed method, 'drawing of society', applied to a multi-sited ethnography of everyday inequalities in two major post-industrial cities of Russia. It contributes to the debate on lay perceptions of social structure by looking at moral and symbolic signifiers of inequality. Building on multi-sensory data, I argue that workers and professionals tend to imagine Russian society as divided between a small group of the rich and a large group of the poor and as consisting of social classes. Ordinary people self-identify with the poor and perceive their position as being at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Depending on their lived experiences, research participants express their sense of inequality through the narrative strategies of compliance, inversion and subversion of power hierarchies
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Inequality · Media studies · Narrative · Perception · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social inequality · Sociology · Structural inequality · Subversion · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Gender Studies · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
Working-Class Images of Society
Social Distinctions in Contemporary Russia
The Long Revolution
Distinction
The Dignity of Working Men
Ethnography in/of the World System
Everyday Post-Socialism
Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow
Stratification
Rethinking Class in Russia
The Imaginary Institution of Society
Formations of Class and Gender
The Moral Significance of Class
From Prefix Capitalism to Neoliberal Economism
Remaking a “Failed” Masculinity
Beyond Loyalty and Dissent
Poverty Talk
Adding Theoretical Grounding to Grounded Theory
Lay Perceptions of Inequality and Social Structure
The Making of Class and Gender through Visualizing Moral Subject Formation
Class, Moral Worth and Recognition
Tracing landscapes of the past in class subjectivity
Ordinary, Ambivalent and Defensive
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |