[PDF] Social Stratification In Central Europe eBook

Author : Jiří Večerník
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 2022
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ISBN : 9783031094590

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This book provides a comparative and contemporary account of social stratification in the Central European states of Czechia, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia (the Visegrad Four - V4 group), and also by contrast with Austria. It looks at the shared history of these countries as part of the erstwhile Austro-Hungarian Empire. While the V4 states experienced, for decades, the regressive authoritarian Soviet rule, Austria escaped this fate. The question is how some common historical roots, impact of the communist regime, and transition paths have shaped the specific social structures of V4 countries which differ despite belonging to a relatively homogeneous region. The book examines the changes and developments through analyses of large comparative surveys and other data collected after 1990, most notably using the European Union's survey "Statistics on Income and Living Conditions" (EU-SILC) that has been fielded since 2005. The book starts with an outline of the long-term developments in key social structure dimensions which occurred during the post-communist transition. The analytical chapters then discuss topics previously not much examined in social stratification perspective: subjective well-being, couples' status, cultural activities and differences among retirees. This book is intended for social scientists working on stratification research, and, specifically, V4 societies and politics.

Author : Henryk Doma?ski
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789639116825

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"Applying the Erikson-Goldthorpe classification of class positions, Domanski presents fully comparable data to enable political comparisons to be made with other countries, especially those with firmly established free-market economies."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Etienne Penissat
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1788736303

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Mapping the class divisions that run throughout Europe Over the last ten years - especially with the 'no' votes in the French and Dutch referendums in 2010, and the victory for Brexit in 2016 - the issue of Europe has been placed at the centre of major political conflicts. Each of these crises has revealed profound splits in society, which are represented in terms of an opposition between those countries on the losing and those on the winning sides of globalisation. Inequalities beyond those between nations are critically absent from the debate. Based on major European statistical surveys, the new research in this work presents a map of social classes inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's sociology. It reveals the common features of the working class, the intermediate class and the privileged class in Europe. National features combine with social inequalities, through an account of the social distance between specific groups in nations in the North and in the countries of the South and East of Europe. The book ends with a reflection on the conditions that would be required for the emergence of a Europe-wide social movement.

Author : M. L. Bush
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1317896807

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This pioneering survey evaluates the notions of class and order throughout European history since 1500. After a general theoretical section on the concept of orders and class, the book provides discussions and case studies of the nobility, the clergy, the middle classes and the rural and urban proletariat. The studies are drawn from all over Europe, from early modern Castile to late Tsarist Russia. Contributors include Peter Burke, Stuart Woolf, A A Thompson and Joseph Bergin.

Author : Jiří Večerník
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 36,94 MB
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3031094581

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This book provides a comparative and contemporary account of social stratification in the Central European states of Czechia, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia (the Visegrad Four – V4 group), and also by contrast with Austria. It looks at the shared history of these countries as part of the erstwhile Austro-Hungarian Empire. While the V4 states experienced, for decades, the regressive authoritarian Soviet rule, Austria escaped this fate. The question is how some common historical roots, impact of the communist regime, and transition paths have shaped the specific social structures of V4 countries which differ despite belonging to a relatively homogeneous region. The book examines the changes and developments through analyses of large comparative surveys and other data collected after 1990, most notably using the European Union’s survey “Statistics on Income and Living Conditions” (EU-SILC) that has been fielded since 2005. The book starts with an outline of the long-term developments in key social structure dimensions which occurred during the post-communist transition. The analytical chapters then discuss topics previously not much examined in social stratification perspective: subjective well-being, couples’ status, cultural activities and differences among retirees. This book is intended for social scientists working on stratification research, and, specifically, V4 societies and politics.

Author : Étienne Penissat
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 178873629X

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Over the last ten years - especially with the 'no' votes in the French and Dutch referendums in 2010, and the victory for Brexit in 2016 - the issue of Europe has been placed at the centre of major political conflicts. Each of these crises has revealed profound splits in society, which are represented in terms of an opposition between those countries on the losing and those on the winning sides of globalisation. Inequalities beyond those between nations are critically absent from the debate. Based on major European statistical surveys, the new research in this work presents a map of social classes inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's sociology. It reveals the common features of the working class, the intermediate class and the privileged class in Europe. National features combine with social inequalities, through an account of the social distance between specific groups in nations in the North and in the countries of the South and East of Europe. The book ends with a reflection on the conditions that would be required for the emergence of a Europe-wide social movement.

Author : Andrew C. Janos
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804746885

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A study of East Central Europe and its place in the modern world. Combining narrative with analysis, it presents the past and present of East Central Europe in the larger context of the political and economic history of the continent.

Author : György Enyedi
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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Geographers and regional scholars contribute both thematic essays about the region generally or case studies. Their topics include local government in post-socialist cities; class, ethnicity, and urban restructuring in post-communist Hungary; commercial property development in Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw, new models of the housing system, aesthetic aspects of change in urban space in Prague and Budapest during the transition; and border regions and trans-border cooperation, the case of Poland. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.