Naslov
Hybridity of Social Structure in SEE Societies: From Occupational to Existential Class

Autori
Cvetičanin, Predrag ; Tomić-Koludrović, Inga ; Petrić, Mirko ; Ruzzi, Adrian Leguina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Post-socialism: Hybridity, Continuity and Change / Cvetičanin, Predrag - Niš : CECS Centre for Empirical Cultural Studies of South-East Europe, 2016, 13-14

ISBN
978-86-89079-08-1

Skup
Post-socialism: Hybridity, Continuity and Change

Mjesto i datum
Novi Sad, Srbija, 25.06.2016. - 26.06.2016

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Class; post-socialism; South-East Europe; stratification mechanisms; social closure

Sažetak
Post-socialist societies of South-East Europe are hybrid societies and their social structure carries clear traces of this hybridity. In these societies there are at least four stratification mechanisms working in parallel, whose “beneficiaries” struggle between themselves for establishing “the dominant principle of domination”: market mechanisms ; mechanisms of social closure according to group/party affiliation (social capital) ; mechanisms of social closure based on credentials (cultural capital) ; and mechanisms of social closure along the ethnic and religious lines - which results in the parallel existence of class-like, status group-like and elite-like social groups. Since this multitude of stratification mechanisms is accompanied with a high level of unemployment, a large number of people who have part-time and seasonal jobs outside their occupation, a substantial share of informal economy, a substantial geographical stratification of the SEE societies, it becomes clear why a class analysis based on the position of individual (survey respondents) in the occupational system is unable to grasp the complexity of the social structure in SEE societies. Instead, we have tried to analyse social inequalities in Serbia and Croatia by using the household as a unit of analysis and by measuring inequalities in their life conditions - identifying in the social space groups which differ not only according to the total volume of economic, social, cultural and political capital and the capital composition, but also according to gender composition of the household, age profile of the household and the place of permanent residence. We argue that this kind of conception of the “existential“ class, as a measure of total social inequality, is close to Bourdieu’s understanding of the social class, if not in letter, then, at least, in spirit. Analysing whether these groups are actually in contact with each other, whether they socialize amongst themselves and marry each other, and where social boundaries between them are, we followed the footsteps of the Cambridge Stratification Group, performing the analyses by using data on education and occupation of the respondent’s three best friends and their marital partners. In this paper, we used the data from the survey “Life-Strategies and Survival Strategies of Households and Individuals in South-East European Societies in the Times of Crisis” (2015, 1, 000 respondents in both Serbia and Croatia), carried out out within the SCOPES programme of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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