INVESTIGATION OF DIFFERENT NATURE OF ILLEGAL TRANSACTIONS IN UKRAINE (Vyvchennia riznoi pryrody nezakonnykh transaktsii v Ukraini)

• Authors: Abel Polese
• Languages of publication: UK

Abstracts

EN

Challenging the main reports that see corruption as an evil to eradicate in Ukraine, this article proposes that it would be beneficial to analyze and treat petty corruption that helps people to survive rather than enrich citizens, within the framework of gift exchange proposed by Marcel Mauss. To do so, this paper thus focuses on the three alleged most ‘corrupted' places in Ukraine: a university, a hospital, and a police control post, in order to develop a detailed analysis of the meanings of these transactions. Furthermore, it examines the particular role that social actors take within these arrangements to propose the recognition of a grey zone between corruptions as evident in the examples analyzed over the course of the paper.

Keywords

EN

BRIBE; CORRUPTION; ECONOMIC TRANSACTION; GIFT; HOSPITAL; POLICE; UNIVERSITY (UKRAINE)

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; http://www.i-soc.kiev.ua
• Journal: Sotsiolohiia: teoriia, metody, marketyng (Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing)
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 52-70
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Abel Polese

• Polese Abel, Edinburgh University, UK (for more information contact the journal editorial office, Institute of Sociology of NAS of Ukraine, vul. Shovkovychna, 12, Kyiv, 01004, Ukraine)

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10UAAAAA087614