By Henryk Domanski
In response to comparative surveys, the writer provides a examine of social transformation in relevant and jap Europe after 1989. concentrating on Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Slovakia, the writer presents details in terms of social constitution, mobility, inequality, way of life and fiscal stratification. utilizing the Erikson-Goldthorpe category of sophistication positions, Domanski successfully provides absolutely similar information to permit political comparisons to be made with different international locations, in particular people with firmly verified loose marketplace economies. As such, "On the Verge of Convergence" seeks to supply a clearer figuring out of the on-going means of social transformation inside constructing capitalist societies.
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They are marked by continuity and not by abrupt changes, a fact which we clearly documented for our six East Central European societies in Chapter2. It seems that in areas strongly exposed to the impact of factors exogenous to the inherent logic of social stratification, even a couple of years may witness rapid ‘ups and downs’, afact convincingly proved by the data, particularly on income distribution. Government welfare policy, resulting in redistribution of economic benefits (Esping-Andersen, 1990), or centrally imposed allocation of financial resources by the socialist state (Domanski, 1990), exemplifL what we refer to as the operation of exogenous forces.
In particular, higher positions may come to be considered more attractive by members of the lower classes, who will as a result seek to improve their market position and secure higher economic benefits on a competitive basis. At the sametime, however, an increasing propensity to move upward might be counteracted by members of the established occupational elite. The East Central European intelligentsia, traditional in its mentality and 49 orientations is undergoing a transformation into professions.
It seems likely that identical processes of return mobility took place within the intelligentsia and managerial cadres. In almost all countriesthe exception was Bulgaria-the proportion of this category fell at the 21 time of the first job and increased thereafter up to 1988. It is a ‘norm’ that if representatives of the top social strata leave their original categories, they do so only temporarily. Usually, they experience downward mobility at the beginning of their life-careers. Later on, they move into top positions, which-in a sense-are assigned to them by virtue of social origin and the ‘iron rules’ of reproduction of privilege which maintain class barriers and stratificational hierarchies basically intact.