STRATYFIKACJA A SYSTEM SPOŁECZNY W POLSCE
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2009
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Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM
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STRATIFICATION AND THE SOCIAL SYSTEM IN POLAND
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The paper analyses the functioning of the social system in Poland from the stratification
mechanism perspective. Basing on the results of research carried out in the last decades, the author
attempts to identify the conditions in which the recent changes have taken place in the stratification
mechanism and the consequences they had on institutions and social attitudes. An analysis of the
above leads to a conclusion that those mechanisms function according to a certain logic that is well
known both in theory and in practice. Contrary to the theses suggesting a decline of social
stratification, there is nothing to suggest that intergenerational transmissions of social status or
educational inequalities have weakened. Likewise, marital homogamy and friendship patterns
remain substrantial.
In the second part of the paper the author attempts to answer the question whether within this
stable system of social distances, a “ruling” class and a “middle” class are emerging, as they seem to be
(both from the theoretical and empirical point of view) the most predestined classes to play
a significant role in the transformation process.
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 71, 2009, z. 2, s. 381-395