Social Imagination and Solidarity in Precarious Times: The Case of Lower Class People in Post-Soviet Russia
Journal: Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review
Year: 2017

The paper seeks to enrich existing literature on group making by studying the process of group formation among lower class people in post-soviet Russia, which provides important findings on the way precarization and atomization in global neoliberal capitalism can be overcome. Drawing on a large database consisting of in-depth interviews in different regions and a few observations, the study sheds light on the way social ties and social imagination can develop among lower class people, who have b