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- Title
Towards Rediscovery of Social Class after the Post-Communist Transition: A Comparative Neo-Weberian Analysis of Baltic States.
- Authors
MORKEVIČIUS, VAIDAS; NORKUS, ZENONAS
- Abstract
Class effects in Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania are compared in the framework of the Neo-Weberian social class theory (EGP class schema), using European Social Survey (ESS) Round 4 (2008-2010) data, just at the time when Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed their transition to market economy and liberal democracy. Finland, perceived in the post-communist Baltic countries as a model or a “real utopia” state, is used as benchmark for a comparative estimation of the strength of class effects. The main findings of the statistical correspondence analysis are the following: (1) Class inequality of life chances is more pronounced in the post-communist Baltics than in Finland; (2) Paradoxically, class effects on ideological orientations and party voting are more prominent in Finland, where class inequality is less pronounced.
- Subjects
FINLAND; SOCIAL classes; BALTIC States politics &; government; CAPITALISM; CORRESPONDENCE analysis (Statistics); SOCIAL history
- Publication
Filosofija, Sociologija, 2017, Vol 28, Issue 2, p128
- ISSN
0235-7186
- Publication type
Article