The economic transformations in Russia have brought to the forefront a number of very complex problems that stem from deep-seated social and structural processes whose dynamics are determined, to quite a large extent, by qualitative changes in relations of property ownership, power, and income levels of various strata and groups of the population. Social differentiation encompasses a broad range of "basic" and "superstructural" relations, reflecting as it does changing principles in the social stratification of society. The very nature of social structure components has changed, and new strata and sociocultural formations have emerged. In particular, our focus here is on people working as hired employees and those not working as hired employees (91.4 percent and 8.6 percent, 66English translation

Soviet sociology found it difficult to construct realistic models of Soviet society in the face of severe political constraints. In the post-Soviet era Russian sociology is struggling to find a model that adequately encompasses the new social structure that is developing in Russia.In prerevolutionary Russia (i.e., up to 1917), the problem area of classes and estates, social stratification, made up the nucleus of sociophilosophical, and sociological thinking. In the Soviet period, up to the 1960s, the social structure became a field of heated ideological polemic.During the period of the "Khrushchev thaw" of the 1960s, the rebirth of sociological research in this field remained under rigid ideological control, since the formula of the social structure-the two classes (workers and peasants) plus the stratum of the intelligentsia-was absolute and changed only as a result of the latest party precepts about the English translation

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