MARRIAGE AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
MARRIAGE AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION

Summary/Abstract: The residts of a research about the marital channel of vertical social mobility from the aspect of class position o f the subjects, are analyzed in this paper. The study was conducted in 1989/90 in the territory of the former Yugoslavia (excluding Slovenia) on a sample o f 4,555 active persons of both sexes. The analysis was carried out on the level of Yugoslavia, by republics/provinces, and in that frame, by sex. A 4-class scheme was applied (private owners, working class, middle class and leaders) and the thus classified data are commented on in accordance with a oroader scheme, which is still not precise enough and in which small holders living in cities are observed separately from farmers, and clerks separately from professionals. Several statistical measures of the degree of influence of the class position on the selection of spouse, were applied. The results have shown a high degree of homogamy according to this indicator, 68.1% for Yugoslavia, with variations by republics/provinces from 60.2% in Bosnia & Herzegovina to 73% in Serbia Hypergamy (upward marital mobility) prevails in heterogamous marriages in all of the analyzed regions with the exception of Montenegro (31. 5% ).

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