Polarization and heterogenization of social strata, with the conservation of „the big structure” Cover Image

Társadalmi rétegek polarizálódása és heterogénebbé válása, a „nagyszerkezet” beállásával
Polarization and heterogenization of social strata, with the conservation of „the big structure”

Dilemmas on the basis of researches made in the late two decades

Author(s): István Harcsa
Subject(s): Social development, Social differentiation, Social Theory
Published by: Debreceni Egyetem Politikatudományi és Szociológiai Intézet
Keywords: stratification; social structure; social mobility; inequality

Summary/Abstract: Recently the investigations were focused rather the polarization, so the questions connected with the inner structure of the different strata got less interesting, The most important aim of our study to give an empirically founded picture about the heterogeneity of the different strata, and parallelly about the conservation of „the big structure” of the society. The study was based on the survey of stratification carried out by The Hungarian Statistical Office, in 2016. Observations showed, that the revealing of the attributes of the heterogeneity can be solved only by developing the different models and schemes. The key question was, that by the modification of Andorka scheme could we gather more punctual informations about the formation of the inequality? Our results mirrored, that by the help of the revised schemes we could show bigger inequality, than with the original ones.

  • Issue Year: 11/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 62-88
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Hungarian