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Minagawa, Yuka – Social Forces, 2013
Guided by Durkheim's classic theory of suicide, this article examines suicide trends and determinants in Eastern European countries for the period of 1989-2006, with particular attention given to the association between postcommunist social change and suicide mortality. I find that countries characterized by more drastic structural change…
Descriptors: Well Being, Foreign Countries, Suicide, Social Systems
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Junisbai, Azamat K. – Social Forces, 2010
Analyzing data from the 2007 Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Inequality Survey, I identify and compare the determinants of economic justice attitudes in two formerly similar majority-Muslim nations that are now distinguished almost exclusively by their dissimilar economic circumstances following the collapse of the Soviet Union. In Kazakhstan, where the…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries, Economic Factors, Social Justice