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Самоідентифікація у суспільстві кризи: випадок "човників"
(2001) Погоріла, Н.; Коржов, Г.
This paper is focused on the problem of social self-identification in Ukraine of the transformation period. The problem is considered on the example of people engaged in the reselling of the consumer goods, which were brought or smuggled from abroad. These people are colloquially called «challengers». The article is based on the five in-depth interviews, which were conducted by the authors, when they work in migration project, supervised by Claire Wallace from the Institute for Advanced Social Studies sponsored by Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank in 1995. The main finding of this analysis is a empirical documentation of the differentiation, which emerge in self-identification and business strategies of «challengers» that according to the opinion of the authors can spill over into differentiation of the today's «challengers» into professional traders and those, who find themselves in re-selling business occasionally, mainly using it as survival strategies, and soon will be driven out from this are of activity by more successful competitors.