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2. THE RESEARCH OF CLASS/STRATA STRUCTURE AS A PART OF MAINSTREAM OF SOCIOLOGY.
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Šljukić, Srđan
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SOCIOLOGICAL research ,EQUALITY ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
In this paper the author briefly reviews the sociological research of social inequalities; more precisely, he deals with the research of class/strata structure of society. It is not disputable neither that this research is part of the sociological mainstream, nor that is the area with numerous disputes. It is also worth noticing that the notion of class itself experienced serious challenges. All of this influenced the Yugoslav and Serbian sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
3. 'New' but 'Squeezed': Middle Class and Mortgaged Homeownership in Croatia.
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Mikuš, Marek
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MIDDLE class ,HOME ownership ,HOUSING finance ,PREDATORY lending ,CREDIT ratings ,HOUSING discrimination - Abstract
Some recent anthropological accounts of middle classes centred on their indebted home-ownership. They stressed its two contrastive logics fitting a wider binary – exposing 'squeezed' middle classes in the global North to increasing risks, and supporting the ascent of their 'new' counterparts in the South. The genealogy of middle-class housing debt in Croatia presented in this article reveals another, post-socialist trajectory where mundane and opaque institutional practices regulating access to housing finance, such as bank credit scoring and the allocation of state housing benefits, were key in steering a middle class inherited from socialism towards mortgaged home-ownership. The latter was articulated as a middle-class experience only after the 2000s credit boom had come to an end and the consequences of rampant predatory lending became visible and subject to contestation. The resulting middle-class subjectivities are ambiguous and, as comparisons with other Eastern European cases suggest, accessible for a range of political projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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4. Class, Conflict, and Power between Hegemony and Critical Knowledge: A Journey through the Debates in Socialist Yugoslavia.
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Dević, Ana
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EQUALITY ,EMPLOYEE participation in management ,POLITICAL elites ,POWER (Social sciences) ,SOCIAL conflict ,CLASS politics ,PUBLIC demonstrations - Abstract
This article opens by situating the Yugoslav academic perspectives on class and politics within the framework of recent studies dealing with class in post-socialist Europe. It then presents the ways in which the first Yugoslav dissidents understood the "new class" (the embourgeoisement of the party elite), followed by a review of a large number of studies on the disintegration of workers' self-management project, students' protests, and workers' strikes. The diverse scope of research conducted between the 1960s and 1980s provided a corrective to the League of Communists' hegemonic perceptions of the growing social inequalities, the causes of the economic crisis, and the stalemates of political decision-making, showing the deepening, while "invisible," sense of powerlessness among workers and the opaqueness of the polycentric, increasingly fragmenting and clashing centers of political power. In the conclusions, changes in the perceptions of class in post-Yugoslav states are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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5. A Typology of Movement Participants and Mobilizing Structures.
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Zhiyuan Yu
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SOCIAL movements ,PSYCHOLOGICAL typologies ,SOCIAL participation ,INTEREST (Psychology) - Abstract
This article develops a typology of participants who attended the 1999 Beijing student protest against US/NATO’s bombing of Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia. I argue that the typology of movement participants can help us understand how mobilizing structures are differentially effective for different forms of participation. Four types of participants are identified according to their interest toward the movement goal and their mobilizing capacity by a latent-class model. They are movement leaders, movement followers, uncommitted participants, and opportunists. Among 449 students in the survey who participated in the demonstrations, 10.1 percent- were movement leaders, 13.5 percent- were followers, 51.2 percent- were uncommitted, and 25.2 percent- were opportunists. Multinominal logit regression models are also applied to identify differences in the characteristics of microstructural avenues of each class compared with the others. The regression results show that movement leaders are more likely to join the demonstration due to ideational factors- influence from the book "China Can Say No". Opportunists are found to be more likely to be student cadres. However, we do not see the expected results that movement followers are more likely to be immersed with roommates’ networks which shaped their attitudes as well as facilitate the information transmission about the demonstration, and that uncommitted participants are more likely to follow the campus posters and join the demonstration by noise or chanting/yelling of the demonstration. This is might be because (1) the total number of cases is relatively small (N=449), and (2) roommates discussions and campus spatial influences were very common for all the students. Therefore, it is hard to have any significance value for those covariates. Therefore, further research is needed to design specific survey questions and sampling strategy to test the hypothesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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