Understanding the moral economy of post-Soviet societies
An investigation into moral sentiments and material interests in Kyrgyzstan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5124975 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Balihar Sanghera (0000-0001-9920-7375, University of Kent), Aibek Ilyasov, Elmira Satybaldieva (0000-0002-4451-3030, American University of Central Asia) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 190 |
| Pages | 715-727 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Social Science Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8701 • E-ISSN: 1468-2451 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2451.2008.00664.x |
| OpenAlex | W2029076230 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 46 |
The article offers three competing conceptual approaches to the moral economy in post-Soviet societies: the economic market, the socially embedded and the moral sentiments approaches. We aim to contribute to the debate on how post-Soviet economies are socially constituted, paying particular attention to their moral and ethical aspects, and arguing for a cross-disciplinary account of Kyrgyzstani market society that engages with political economy, post-communism and moral philosophy. We analyse how, as vulnerable and dependent human beings, we care for and have responsibilities for others, though it is a struggle to pursue these concerns and commitments and to have compassion in a harsh economic environment. We suggest that the moral sentiments approach reveals how moral emotions inform and motivate economic behaviour and affect human well-being. By analysing the transition in the public sector, social networks and real markets in Kyrgyzstan, this perspective explains how shame, frustration and anger dominate people's lives and how corruption emerges in the absence of both positive moral emotions and human capabilities
Communism · Compassion · Discipline · Economics · Environmental ethics · Language change · Moral disengagement · Moral economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Shame · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Psychology
Radical political economy
Varieties of Transition
Russia's economy of favours
Post-Soviet Chaos
The Postsocialist Agrarian Question. Property Relations and the Rural Condition
The Market
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Conflict
After Virtue
The New Sociology of Economic Behaviour
MacIntyre on Modernity and How It Has Marginalized the Virtues
How Should One Live?
Cultural Goods and the Limits of the Market
Contradictions of the Welfare State
Post-Soviet Women
Being Human
The Theory Of The Leisure Class
Uncertain Transition
Development as Freedom
Who Pays for the Kids
Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation
Women's Capabilities and Social Justice
The Moral Significance of Class
The Sociology of Economic Life
Economic Action and Social Structure
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next
Being Human
The Sociology of Economic Life
Professional Ethics and Civic Morals
After virtue
Clans, Pacts, and Politics in Central Asia
Upheavals of Thought
A Theory of Market Transition
A moral economy of corruption in Africa
On the Idea of the Moral Economy
The ethics of competition
The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century
The Market Transition Debate
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2020 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |