Intergenerational Social Mobility in Communist Russia

Marshall, Gordon; Sydorenko, Svetlana; Roberts, Stephen

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“…Most importantly, research on patterns of mobility under state socialism provides no strong evidence to support the view that the countries of the Soviet Union, including central European countries, were unusually open societies. Erikson and Goldthorpe's (1992) analyses of Hungary and Poland, for example, found levels of social mobility and fluidity similar to those observed in Western Europe and the United States (also Marshall, Sydorenko, and Roberts 1995;Wong and Hauser 1992;Kolosi 1988). As Gerber and Hout (2004:680) put it, "what little we know about Russian mobility in the Soviet period suggests that there was substantial intergenerational inheritance of class position," though as they also note: "the data are too sketchy to reach definitive conclusions."…”

Section: The Implications Of Marketization For Equality Of Opportunitymentioning

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Rebuilding Walls: Market Transition and Social Mobility in the Post-Socialist Societies of Europe

Jackson¹,

Evans²

2017

SocScience

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Abstract:We ask whether the transition from socialism to the market is consequential for social mobility, and, by implication, the permeability of class structures. While the short-term effects of market transition on patterns of social mobility have been documented for a small number of countries, we are able to examine the long-term effects of market transition for a group of 13 central and eastern European (CEE) countries. Only in the longer term can we properly appreciate the settled effects of transition on the distribution of resources, the organization of class and economic structures, and the transmission of inequalities across generations. We use data drawn from nationally representative cross-national surveys of CEE countries to compare patterns of social mobility in the early 1990s with those in the late 2000s. We find a significant decline in relative social mobility between the two periods and show that this decline is a consistent feature of mobility patterns across the region. We argue that changes in the institutions that regulate the transfer of capital across generations are likely to explain why the move from socialism to the market is associated with declining levels of social fluidity.

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Section: The Implications Of Marketization For Equality Of Opportunitymentioning

confidence: 97%

Rebuilding Walls: Market Transition and Social Mobility in the Post-Socialist Societies of Europe

Jackson¹,

Evans²

2017

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What we have learned: RC28's contributions to knowledge about social stratification

Hout

DiPrete

2006

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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*We thank RC28 members who provided the starting point for this paper at the special session on RC28 accomplishments at the 2002 World Congress of Sociology. We also thank RC28 members who commented on an earlier draft of this paper that was presented at the 2003 RC28 meeting in Tokyo, especially Wout Ultee for his valuable comments at the Tokyo meeting. Finally, we thank Yunus Kaya for constructing a database of presentations at RC28 over the last twenty years, which has facilitated our writing this paper.

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Lessons from Comparative Theories

Burrage¹

2008

Class Formation, Civil Society and the State

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Intergenerational Social Mobility in Communist Russia

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Rebuilding Walls: Market Transition and Social Mobility in the Post-Socialist Societies of Europe

Rebuilding Walls: Market Transition and Social Mobility in the Post-Socialist Societies of Europe

What we have learned: RC28's contributions to knowledge about social stratification

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