Pride and Shame. Role of Economic Discourses in Socialist Yugoslavia
Pride and Shame. Role of Economic Discourses in Socialist Yugoslavia
Author(s): Bernard HarbašSubject(s): Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Social differentiation, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: economic discourses; the second economy; pride; shame; stolen pleasure; dictated consumption;
Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the analysis of the role of feelings of pride and shame, superiority and inferiority and social capital in the economy of the former Yugoslavia. A special emphasis is given to the relevance of these feelings for status, affiliation and social-class position in Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav society/societies. Depending on context and class structure, pride and shame represented the fundamental content of economic discourses characteristic for both periods of contemporary Yugoslav history. This article represents an analysis of the relevance and effects these feelings as well as the concomitant economic discourses had on the transformation of Yugoslav space from a socialist into a post-socialist one.
Journal: Dijalog - Časopis za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 03+04
- Page Range: 89-103
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English