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Studia BAS
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2020
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issue 2(62)
129-142
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The aim of this paper is to discuss intergenerational mobility in Poland. Main attention is given to subjective perception of social mobility. The author is interested in how individuals perceive, explain and assess their social position and trajectory, and thereby how dynamics of social structure is intertwined with personal experience. She discusses social mobility in terms of objective measures and categories, with particular focus on comparison between respondents’ social status and their fathers’ status, and thereafter compares it with subjective perception of upward or downward social mobility. The analysis is based on three waves of POLPAN survey (1988, 2013, 2018), an academic research project conducted by the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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This paper presents findings on the changes in social stratification in Poland, with particular attention given to mobility and marital choices. The author begins with an overview of the concept of social mobility, i.e. shifting of individuals or other categories in social space, including its definitions, indicators, patterns and mechanisms. Next, based on a set of empirical data, the author discusses the patterns of mobility and martial choices in the aftermath of 1989 transition in Poland. Special attention is given to the analysis of the openness of Polish society, opportunities for intergenerational mobility and its consequences.
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The aim of this paper is to assess the importance of class differences in contemporary Poland by studying the effect of social position and mobility on the commensal practices. For this purpose, the author applies Pierre Bourdieu’s multidimensional class model and argues that class effect may be disaggregated into three components: cultural, economic and social capital. Using data from a survey conducted in 2017, he finds support for three hypotheses. First, commensality is more typical for people with higher endowments of economic and cultural capital, but is not related to educational mobility/immobility. Second, commensality is correlated with social capital and social networks and thus potentially conducive to social advantages. Third, commensality goes together with culinary openness and cosmopolitan taste that foster it. Contrary to the thesis of class dissolution, class differences are still operative in contemporary societies.
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The article looks at the results of a quantitative study of employment insecurity among young adults in Poland. Insecurity is conceptualized as a specific career sequence, observed over several years, composed of recurrent episodes of non-standard employment separated by periods of joblessness. The empirical part of the analysis uses data from the three most recent waves of the Polish Panel Survey POLPAN (conducted in 2008, 2013, and 2018). It offers an analysis of the employment transitions experienced by the respondents, a description of early career sequences (covering a period of three or five years following graduation), and an assessment of the main socio-economic correlates of persistent youth employment insecurity on the Polish labour market.
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The article looks at the existing approaches in the intergenerational mobility research, their axiological foundations, as well as cognitive and practical consequences. In the mainstream sociological debate, as well as wider public debate, intergenerational mobility is assumed to be an adequate indicator of open, democratic society based on the equal opportunities. Most of the research efforts have been focused on identifying main barriers of mobility and main drivers of social advancement. However, in-depth studies reveal the complexity of both individual mobility and structural social fluidity as the phenomena concealing the consequences of growing social polarization. The paper briefly maps the approaches applied in intergenerational mobility research with special focus on questions which still stay understudied in the Polish context.
Studia BAS
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2020
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issue 2(62)
111-128
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The article looks at social advancement and its consequences for family members – both the experiences of those who experience social upward mobility and their brothers and sisters reproducing their parents’ class positions. The material was collected with the method of qualitative narrative interview; adults with siblings participated in the study. As the author argues, in class analyses, the emotional aspect is often overlooked, while reflection on the health and mental well-being of individuals and groups often lacks insight into the consequences of the class positions they occupy. Also, reproduction and class mobility experiences can evoke a variety of emotions for individuals. These emotions should not be interpreted only in terms of individual temperament and character. The effect of the analysis is to show the various emotional consequences of social advancement: from pride, indifference to rejection.
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