Предметно-познавателни условия за възможност на социално-историческата конструираност на стратификацията като процес
Epistemological-ontological Conditions for Possibility of Socio-historical Construction of Social Stratification as a Process

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents an attempt to develop a sociologically derived synthetic conceptual framework for understanding social stratification in terms of processes of generating and acquiring social positions within modern time-spaces rather than in structural terms. Reconceptualizing stratification as a process is suggested as achievable through discussion of the possibility conditions for its socio-historical construction. A critical discussion is developed of interrelated and mutually constituting each other sets of epistemological conditions (sociological conceptualizations – including their terminologies – of class and stratification, as well as political, ideological, official, and everyday discourses of these phenomena) and ontological conditions (the subject-matter dynamism and its consequences in modern and postmodern time-spaces). On the background of this discussion and of presented arguments for hybridizing and wave-like character of globalizing-localizing processes of contemporary socialities, the paper holds that multiple and heterogenous stratification processes evolve, which increasingly tend to engender non-hierarchical constellations of social positions. Stratification processes are understood as ever-actualizing intersections of the changing differentiations and their arrangements within social time-spaces, on one hand, and individual or group interactions and their rationalizations, which are generated by these and (re)produce them in the course of everyday life constitution, on the other hand.

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