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SOCIAL CLASSES AND CLUSTERS: BASED ON EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

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Menshikov V.

Sociālo Zinātņu Vēstnesis

2016

issue 1

59-72

The aim of the paper is to consider the situation with the social class stratification in Latvia. The focus is on the middle social class, due to the significance of this class both for the economic growth and the achievement of the sustainable, long-term development of the country. The subject of sociological research - formation of class stratification in the region (estimated on the basis of cluster analysis), the main characteristics of the selected clusters based on the analysis of the volumes and structure of total resources and aggregate capital. The clustering of the population of Latgale applying the 3 variables shows only two clusters. The first of them (Cluster 1) makes up only 6%: average income per a family member per month made 503 LVL, level of education - incomplete higher, self-identified class - middle stratum. The majority of our respondents made up the second cluster (Cluster 2): average income of 151 LVL, level of education - secondary professional, self-identified class - lower middle class/upper working class. The analysis of the data (Tables 3 and 4) shows that the structure of the aggregate resource of the representatives of the first cluster (Cluster 1) and the one of aggregate capital are dominated by the same “powers of social improvement”: cultural, economic, vocational and educational. Relative scarcity of vocational and educational resources and, in particular, cultural ones among the representatives of the second cluster is due in large part to their “dissent” to the hierarchy of social stratification; it does not allow a very large proportion of the population of our region really claim a place in the middle class. In the conclusion of the article, the controversial issues of classes in modern societies are analyzed.

СОВОКУПНЫЙ КАПИТАЛ, ЕГО СТРУКТУРА И ВЗАИМОСВЯЗЬ С ТРУДОВОЙ МИГРАЦИЕЙ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ ЛАТГАЛИИ)

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Meņšikovs V., Vanags E., Volkova O.

Sociālo Zinātņu Vēstnesis

2013

issue 1

61-90

In the late 20th – early 21st centuries, sociologists more and more frequently are using the theory of capital, the development of which was greatly contributed by Pierre Bourdieu. In the article, there are substantiated the necessity and the possibility to use the theory of capital evaluating and analyzing situations in different spheres of social life, including employment, labour migration. In 2012, the sociologists of the Institute of Social Research, Daugavpils University, carried out a research project “Aggregate Capital, Its Structure and Relation to Labour Migration”, where the theory of total capital was widely used. The project was aimed to evaluate the volume and structure of the total capital of Latgale region’s inhabitants, taking into account state’s needs for its social and economical development and different needs of region’s inhabitants, in particular connected to the labour migration. Using results of different studies aiming to examine the competiveness of employed part of Latvians as well as the role of different types of capital, hypothesis has been highlighted – basis for growth of the human capital (at the same time for the growth of financial and social wellbeing of region’s inhabitants) is the cultural capital of family. Executing the study basic hypothesis has been acknowledged: in the modern environment of the “society of knowledge”, having a high proportion of the services sector, the basis for the growth of the human capital (that in fact has a direct effect on the economical capital) is the cultural capital of personality. For the major part of economically active inhabitants the cultural capital is not only a source of social and moral benefits, but also a source of financial income. Also additional hypothesis has been proved – higher predisposition for the labour migration is more typical for economically active region’s inhabitants with fairly high amounts of some indicators of the total capital, especially physical capital, but with comparatively lower amount of the cultural capital, which could transform into the human capital, and further into the economical capital in Latgale or Latvia.

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SOCIAL CLASSES AND CLUSTERS: BASED ON EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

СОВОКУПНЫЙ КАПИТАЛ, ЕГО СТРУКТУРА И ВЗАИМОСВЯЗЬ С ТРУДОВОЙ МИГРАЦИЕЙ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ ЛАТГАЛИИ)