Original scientific paper

Quality of Everyday Life of Social Groups

Vladimir Lay ; Institut za društvena istraživanja, Zagreb

Abstract

The basic material indicators, used in a survey of quality of everyday life were: household incomes, conditions of housing, house-equipment, transportation, and spending of summer holidays. The basic social groups were: political rulers, managers, intellectuals of so called »system labour«, intellectuals of »socially necessary labour«, clerks, skilled workers, unskilled Workers, private craftsmen, and individual agricultural producers. The results of survey confirmed hypothesis: there is a hierarchy in quality of life (as measured according to the indicators) which corresponds to the hierarchy of social groups. At the top are politicians and managers, at the bottom are workers and peasants. In the middle of social structure (as well as with the medium quality of life) are intellectuals, craftsmen and clerks. The position in global division of labour determines some basic material aspects of everyday quality of life.

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Hrčak ID:

155750

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/155750

Publication date:

31.12.1986.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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