RETURN TO AND DEPARTURE FROM SOCIAL ORIGIN: TRENDS IN SOCIAL FLUIDITY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC BETWEEN 1990 AND 2011

• Authors: Tomáš Katrňák , Laura Fónadová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The authors analyse trends in social fluidity between 1990 and 2011 in Czech society and examine how the transition from socialism to capitalism has affected these trends. The data consist of 28 annual surveys conducted in the Czech Republic between 1990 and 2011 (N=28,726). The results show that social fluidity in Czech society decreased between 1989 and 2000. This is the result of social change (the period effect), namely, intra generational changes, which the authors conceptualise as a return to social origin. These changes are related to the re-stratification of Czech society after 1989. The period of return to social origin ends sometime around the year 2000. After that, the trend reverses and social fluidity slowly increases. The authors argue that the period of return to social origin is replaced by a period of departure from social origin. This shift is the effect of the educational expansion that has occurred since 1989 in Czech society and cohort replacement.

Keywords

EN

SOCIAL MOBILITY; STRATIFICATION; INEQUALITY; POST-SOCIALISM; CZECH REPUBLIC

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 655 – 685

Contributors

author

Tomáš Katrňák

• Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies, Joštova 10, Brno 602 00, Czech Republic

author

Laura Fónadová