/or mother) mobility-upward and downward mobility- Relative deprivation: your relative position has become worth compared to other social strata (e.g. Roma people in Hungary during state socialism: their absolute position improved, but the distance between them and the other part of the society grew) - Example: SYSTEM CHANGE and Stratification in Hungary after 1989- transition or transformation? (a long theoretical debate)- Bartha’s interpretation (personal view):TRANSITION: in the level of the AIMS/goals: e.g. from state-socialism to a free-market capitalismTRANSFORMATION: in the level of TECHNICS, the choosen economic policies (PATH-dependence); e.g. PRIVATISATION: how? in Hungary: centralized tendering vs. Czech Republic: voucher-privatisation- the INNER STRATIFICATION of the ECONOMIC ELITE during the transformation (transition) period- ELITE: those people who are able to inleunce the most important DECISION-MAKING processes in the economic, cultural or political sphere (respectively: economic, cultural or political elite); the members of the elite are NOT necessarily neither the “richest” ones, nore the “most famous” ones- empirical description of the elite:1. reputational sample (e.g.: different “ART schools”) 2. institutional (positional) sample - e.g. economic elite in Hungary during the 90’ssegments: large industrial corporations (among them: MNCs), banks+ other financial institutions (insurance and broker companies), economic ministries, Parliament’s economic committees- positions: at least a “head of department” - the privilegised segment: financial segment + MNCs- younger people, more women, predominance of economic education (vs. engineering /industrial corp./ or law /Parliament/), more refined life style (higher cultural consumption; close to that of that cultural elite!)- the level of ELITE REPRODUCTION is relatively high (the change of the elite members is...
