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Symbolic structure of the post-Soviet transformations in Latvia and emigration: Avoiding shame and striving for hope and confidence.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Symbolic structure of the post-Soviet transformations in Latvia and emigration: Avoiding shame and striving for hope and confidence./
Author:	Kesane, Iveta.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	307 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-04A(E).
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10161646
ISBN:	9781369165098

Symbolic structure of the post-Soviet transformations in Latvia and emigration: Avoiding shame and striving for hope and confidence.
Kesane, Iveta.

Symbolic structure of the post-Soviet transformations in Latvia and emigration: Avoiding shame and striving for hope and confidence. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 307 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kansas State University, 2016.

This dissertation explores the case of emigration from Latvia towards the West after collapse of the Soviet Union. It takes the perspective of a particular cultural structure that came to dominate post-Soviet Latvia and adopts the vantage point of the state-society relationships this structure has cast. The central question of this study examines: what is the relationship between the cultural structure in post-Soviet Latvia and emigration towards the West? This study answers this question by contrasting Latvia's civil discourse with emigrants' and those who remain in Latvia personal narratives through the lens of cultural sociology that emphasizes the role of the symbolic realm, meaning making, and emotions. Research findings suggested that the post-Soviet cultural structure was dominated by "symbolic codes" (Alexander and Smith, 1993) or sharp divides such as West vs. East/Soviet, Right vs. Left, and Developed vs. Underdeveloped. Notably, symbolic codes of West, Right and Developed were constructed as "sacred" while their opposites were pushed out of "sacred" and ridiculed. These divides originated from such particular emotions as shame, confidence/pride and fear. Their meanings in the dominant transformation discourse and emotional origins were formative to the identity and modern state craft, and subjectivities in post-Soviet Latvia.

ISBN: 9781369165098Subjects--Topical Terms:

516174
Sociology.

Symbolic structure of the post-Soviet transformations in Latvia and emigration: Avoiding shame and striving for hope and confidence.
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