Preliminary notes
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I. QUESTIONS OF METHODOLOGY
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1. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ISSUES
(Nikolai Tilkidjiev)
1.1. Social stratification, strata and groups
1.2. Criteria and measures of social stratification.
Constituting characteristics and processes
1.3. Nominalism and synthetism in understanding of stratification.
Class v/s stratification debate
1.4. The separate individual or his family?
Individual and community status
1.5. Objective stratification and subjective identification.
Polyvariance of the stratification interpretation
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2. TOWARD CONSTRUCTING A CLASSIFICATION
(Nikolai Tilkidjiev)
2.1. Step by step: the techniques of typology.
Sufficiency, intensity, hierarchy and dynamics
2.2. Reduction of the indicators of the overal stratification status.
Proper, dynamic and subjective status
2.3. Problems in using classifications
2.4. National and international standardization
2.5. Classifications of socio-economic categories
and social strata in Bulgaria in 1997
Notes
2.6. Systematizing the stratification problematic. (A study program)
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3. INDICATORS AND MEASURES OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
(Tsocho Zlatkov)
3.1. Basic theoretical and methodological definitions
3.2. Methods for empirical definition of social group affiliation
3.3. Statuses and parametres of social position of groups,
indicators for registering them
3.4. Ways of measuring the statuses of social groups
3.5. Comparing generalized social characteristics
Notes
3.6. Operationalizing the "social origin" variable
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4. A COMMENTARY ON THE BASIC CLASSIFICATIONS
OF SOCIAL GROUPS
(Dobrinka Kostova)
4.1. John Goldthorpe's classification a high point and a challenge
of British stratification theory
(Svetla Koleva)
4.2. "The constructed" classes in the theory of Pierre Bourdieu
(Tsocho Zlatkov)
4.3. "Social classification of professions" by the Polish sociologists
Mihal Pohoski and Kazimierz Slomczinski
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II. A COMMENTARY ON ACTUAL SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
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1. THE SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN POSTCOMMUNIST BULGARIA:
THE DRAMA OF CRYSTALLIZATION
(Nikolai Tilkidjiev)
1.1. Stratification in Eastern Europe as a moral and political problem
1.2. Inadequacy of the tools of research
1.3. Protostratification: the three layers and measures of inequality
an important distinction
1.4. The status quo of the previous society (1960 - 1989)
1.5. The crystallization of a new stratification (1990 - 1997):
the old "new" elite, the form of the stratified society and
the inequality of incomes and prestige
1.6. Emerging tendencies
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2. INTELLECTUALS AND/OR INTELLIGENTIA?
(Svetla Koleva)
2.1. The conceptual problem "intellectuals-intelligentia"
2.2. Socio-historical evolution of intellectuals and
intelligentia. "The new class of knowledge"
2.3. An attempt of conceptual syntesis
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3. SPECIALISTS WITH A HIGHER EDUCATION (PROFESSIONALS):
EDUCATION AS A STRATIFICATION RESOURCE
(Svetla Koleva)
3.1. Bulgarian specialists with a higher education (1960 -1989)
3.2. Specialists with a higher education after 1989
3.3. Hypotheses
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4. THE PROCESSES OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
IN THE BULGARIAN VILLAGE TODAY
(Maya Keliyan)
4.1. Changes in the agrarian sector
4.2. The farmer class
4.3. Status characteristics of people occupied in agriculture
4.4. Expectations of land owners
4.5. Changes in income and consumption
4.6. Tendencies in stratification positions
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5. THE ECONOMIC ELITE IN A TIME OF TRANSITION
(Dobrinka Kostova)
5.1. The importance of studying the elite
5.2. The economic elite in a society in transition -
theoretic and methodological problems
5.3. The economic situation
5.4. Models of recruiting the elite - social origin,
labour mobility, political loyalties, values
5.5. Conclusion
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III. APPENDIX:
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1. CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE SOCIAL CATEGORIES AND GROUPS IN
SOCIOLOGICAL AND STATISTICAL PRACTICE
1.1. The International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO '88)
1.2. The Standard Occupational Classification (SOC '90)
1.3. The class scheme of Robert Erikson and John Goldthorpe (1992)
an improved version of EGP
1.4. A revised class scheme of John Goldthorpe and Anthony Heath
(1992)
1.5. A new version of John Goldthorpe's class scheme (1997)
1.6. A social-professional classification used in Poland (1978, 1990)
1.7. A social-professional classification used in the Czech Republic after
1990
1.8. Classifier of occupations used in Bulgarian statistics (1992)
1.9. Classification of professions in Bulgaria (1996-1997)
1.10. Donald Treiman's and Harry Ganzeboom's classifications - an
attempt at synthesis (1977, 1992, 1996)
1.11. Classifications of social strata in Bulgaria (1997)
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2. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
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3. ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
3.1. Contents
3.2. Summaries
3.3. About the contributors
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