Social Determination of Living Conditions in Post-Communist Societies

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

Draws on a 1993 survey of adults in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, & Slovakia (N = 4,500+ in each country) to examine everyday social inequality in postcommunist Central & Eastern Europe. Living conditions are operationalized in terms of material & cultural consumption, & their possible demographic & structural determinants are investigated. Variations among countries (eg, Hungary's greater inequality of living conditions) are partly accounted for by type & age of economic transformation, continuing strength of the old distributive hierarchy, & importance of the informal economy. Intranational differences are explained only moderately by income (moreso in Hungary & Poland) & are significantly related to education & class. Class & occupation are particularly useful for analyzing inconsistent consumption; eg, high cultural combined with low material consumption is most common among certain white-collar professions, while market-oriented employment is associated with high material but low cultural consumption.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Umfang: Seite(n): 197-215
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 5(2)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Thema: Soziale Probleme und Sozialdienste ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Soziologie von Gesamtgesellschaften ; soziale Probleme

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Robert, Peter
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wann): 1997

Weitere Informationen

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-54225
• Rechteinformation: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 21.06.2024, 16:26 MESZ