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Intergenerational Mobility and Political Transition in Croatia: 20 Years Later

Sociology of stratification has been neglected in Croatia in the past twenty years. This paper aims at deserting that practice ; we will discuss inequalities in education, different parental strategies of investing into cultural and economic resources of their offspring, and status of different professions at the Croatian labor market. In the past two decades Croatia has undergone profound changes ; war and transition has brought altered socio‐political context, changes of the social structure and unfavorable economic situation. Emerged social diversification has led to very sharp social stratification with almost vanished middle social stratum and very narrow stratum of the new elite. The consequences are unequal approach to education and unequal chances at the labor market, with prolonged situation of social instability. We will identify patterns of intergenerational mobility in different periods (1984, 1989, 1996 and 2004) and conduct analysis of transmission of cultural and economic capital by comparison of social status through education and profession of our respondents. Goals of this paper are: 1) to identify direction and strength of social stratification in socialist and transition period ; and 2) to compare systems of social stratification between socialist and transition period. The data base will comprise researches conducted at the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb between 1984 and 2004: The Socio‐cultural development, The Social Structure and Quality of Life, The Social Structure and Quality of Life in the Transition Period and The Social and Religious Changes in Croatia. The analysis will show Croatian society is characterized by a relatively low degree of intergenerational mobility, with a high degree of social reproduction.

Croatia; transition; social structure; intergenerational mobility; education; profession

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