PHENOMENOLOGY OF QUEUE IN THE USSR AND RUSSIA: BRIEF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
V.I. Pleshchenko
Gosznak JSC, Mytnaya str., 17, Moscow, Russia, 115162
Keywords: очередь, ожидание, порядок, потребление, дефицит, взаимодействие, институционализация, queue, waiting, rules, consumption, deficit, interactions, institutionalization
Abstract
Such a phenomenon as a queue is a total character. It has multiple dimensions and complex typology and its appearance is almost unavoidable. Although turn often leads to inefficient use of personal and public time, formal and informal rules, special etiquette means institutionalized interaction of individuals (i.e. ordering). In modern conditions of consumer society and the new economy when trade deficit does not exist, the queue rather arise from the curiosity of people, their desire to join the social circle, be on an equal basis with others. Moreover, this phenomenon has proved to be a suitable complement to the Russian mentality, made the finding in the queue tool of socialization of individuals, an important part of the system of interpersonal communication.
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