Religious Justifications of Complaints Addressed to the President in Contemporary Russia

Main Article Content

Elena A. Bogdanova
Center for Independent Social Research, Saint Petersburg

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 Thévenot is applied as a frame of analysis. This research permits identification of a connection between the transformation of political (presidential) discourse, which took place in 2000s, and attempts of citizens to justify their claims for justice based on Orthodox foundations. In English, extended summary in Russian.

Keywords

Situated Sense of Justice, Contemporary Russian Society, Complaints, Sociology of Critical Capacity, Sociology of Justification, Orthodoxy Christianity, President, Authoritarianism, Legitimacy, Justice


Abstract 192 | PDF FULL PAPER Downloads 103 PDF EXTENDED SUMMARY (Русский) Downloads 72 HTML FULL PAPER Downloads 35 HTML EXTENDED SUMMARY (Русский) Downloads 12

Article Sidebar

PDF FULL PAPER
PDF EXTENDED SUMMARY (Русский)
HTML FULL PAPER
HTML EXTENDED SUMMARY (Русский)
Published
Nov 19, 2014

Article Details

How to Cite
Bogdanova, E. A. (2014). Religious Justifications of Complaints Addressed to the President in Contemporary Russia. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, 6(3), 55–79. Retrieved from https://www.soclabo.org/index.php/laboratorium/article/view/436
Issue
Vol. 6 No. 3 (2014): Culture of Complaints in Russia and Eastern Europe
Section
Articles

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).