Демографският и образователният потенциал за социална промяна: индивидуални и групови измерения
The Demographic and Educational Potential for Social Changes: Individual and Group Dimensions

Summary/Abstract: Individual and group mobility is considered in the perspective of two basic status characteristics — age and schooling. The lives and professional careers of three village persons with university education are looked into on the background of the demographic and educational structure of a big South Bulgarian village. Relevant data are comprehensively examined. It was the author's preliminary assumption that age and education do matter in terms of stimulating or hampering, resp. dynamizing or slowing down, individual and group rural mobiliy. But the substantiation of the assumption, especially in terms of rural specifics, required a lot of additional analysis. The issue of broader social impacts on individual social mobility, though, turned out to be a more complex one. Hence the underlying focus of attention in the article — the subtle impact of societal, local and family structures on the dynamics of individual rural social statuses.

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