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Anomie, Distributive Injustice and Dissatisfaction with Material Well-Being in Eastern Europe

A Comparative Study

Department of Economic Sociology and Psychology, Erasmus University, P.O. Box 1/38, 3000 DR Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Piet Hermkens

Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Peter Van Wijck

Department of Economics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

This paper investigates whether the "disorderly" situation in Eastern Europe can be inter preted in a theoretically fruitful way by applying Durkheim's theory of anomie. Its second goal is to derive a general hypothesis from Durkheim's theory of anomie as it concerns the beliefs, perceptions, judgments and feelings that people develop as a result of living in a societal situation of anomie. More specifically, we are looking for a hypothesis that yields specified predictions about the attitude of Eastern Europeans to distributive justice and material well-being in their contem porary "disorderly" societal situation. Finally, we test those predictions empirically by using data stemming from the International Social Justice Project.

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