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ДРУШТВЕНА ПОКРЕТЉИВОСТ У СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКОЈ СРБИЈИ: ЈЕДАН РЕВИЗИОНИСТИЧКИ ПОГЛЕД
SOCIAL MOBILITY IN SOCIALIST SERBIA: A REVISIONIST APPROACH

Author(s): Slobodan Č. Antonić
Subject(s): Social history, Culture and social structure , Evaluation research, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: structural mobility; perfect mobility; Yasuda’s coefficient; egalitarianism; ideology;

Summary/Abstract: This paper starts from the findings of the latest study of social structure in Serbia (2012), which show a significant reduction of vertical social mobility, especially for further inter-stratum distance. In light of these data, the author considers that we have to re-examine earlier, very biting evaluation of some Serbian sociologists concerning “closeness” for mobility of the society in socialist Serbia. The author analyzes and re-evaluated findings of earlier research (Janićijević, 1970; Flere and Đurđev, 1982/3; Bogdanovic, 1986; 1988; Vukovic, 1989). He concludes that very brisk evaluation of mobility in the Serbian society during socialism is a consequence of schematic interpretation of these findings with Yasuda’s index.

  • Issue Year: 47/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 145-170
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Serbian