Original scientific paper
"The Starry Sky": The Changes and Determinism of the Upper Stratum
Vjeran Katunarić
; Department of Sociology, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The changes in Eastern Europe, and especially in Croatia are interpreted from the "relative class perspective determinism''. This in the understanding of the author means the fact that in a number of countries the new upper calls formed itself from the old, where the main mechanisms of change - the market and privatization, nationalism and the multi-party system, were used for the self-reproduction of the upper class and to the detriment to the lower social class. In the concluding part the author discusses an alternative to the radical approach to class inequality, i.e. in what degree und in what direction could the qualities of the contemporary management elites could be improved in order to attain the level of democracy that Saint-Simon called ''adult nation".
Keywords
class determinism; post-communism; privatization; nationalism; new elites
Hrčak ID:
154532
URI
Publication date:
31.12.1996.
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