Middle classes in the urban surroinding - transformation of group values? Cover Image

Stredné vrstvy v urbánnom prostredí - transformácia skupinových hodnôt?
Middle classes in the urban surroinding - transformation of group values?

Author(s): Katarína Popelková, Monika Vrzgulová
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Ústav etnológie a sociálnej antropológie Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: middle class; entrepreneurs; vine-growers; post-communist transition; social structure of town in Slovakia; Slovakia; transformation; Slovak society

Summary/Abstract: The article is dealing with the problem of difficult life circumstances of the middle class in Slovakia in 20th century which situation after the 1989 is analyzed through empirical research. Comparing of the atributes of groups and common values of two professional groups members (entrepreneurs and rivate vine-growers) in two different towns in Slovakia (Trenčín and Modra) authors tries to characterize and describe the main features of social transformation.

  • Issue Year: 53/2005
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 381-398
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Slovak