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From socialist equality to capitalist stratification: How people see it

Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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Title From socialist equality to capitalist stratification: How people see it
 
Creator Riedl, Felix
Haller, Max
 
Subject International Comparative Sociology; Comparative Social Policy
Social inequality, equality, social policy, CEE, Eastern Europe, Post-Communist welfare states, economic transition
 
Description The transition from socialism to capitalism has led to diverging socioeconomic outcomes for the Post-Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). While typical social problems of capitalist societies were virtually unknown prior to the collapse of socialism, they have been on the increase since the introduction of comprehensive market-oriented reforms. The objective of our article is to investigate the impact of the rising inequality in income in CEE and the effects of distinct trajectories on the change of individual orientations toward social inequality in Post-Communist East Europe. We present statistical data on structural changes and apply linear and logistic regression on data from the ISSP survey 2009 on the perception of social inequality. Our findings suggest that both individual and structural conditions are relevant for attitudes related to inequality. First, objective inequality itself is not associated with individually perceived income differences. Second, different Post-Communist welfare regimes indicate an effect on such perceptions as well as on the individuals’ assessment of the society they live in. Further, the socioeconomic position affects the attitudes toward a redistribution policy.
 
Publisher Doctoral School of Sociology, Corvinus University Budapest
 
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Date 2014-06-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://cjssp.uni-corvinus.hu/index.php/cjssp/article/view/77
10.14267/cjssp.2014.01.01
 
Source Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy; Vol 5, No 1 (2014)
2062-087X
2061-5558
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://cjssp.uni-corvinus.hu/index.php/cjssp/article/view/77/68