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Household strategies in different parts of social space in South-East European societies

The conception of social space, which Bourdieu also refers to as “the field of social classes”, is characteristic of the mature phase in Bourdieu’s sociology. Social space represents a model of spatial conception of the social structure which, as is the case with other fields, stands for “quasireality”, which exists independently of those who are positioned within it. This structure of objective positions results from the combination of the most important powers and resources in a social formation – of economic capital, cultural capital and social capital – and their evolution through time. According to Bourdieu, the social world is “accumulated history” and precisely because accumulated resources (capitals) in their objective and embodied forms show a tendency to act as objective forces, not everything is equally possible or impossible in the social world. The structure and distribution of different types and sub-types of capital at a given moment in time represent, for Bourdieu, the immanent structure of the social world inscribed into the reality of the world itself and determining chances of success for social practices. Starting from the premise that strategies are ways of activating capitals, in this paper we analyze the distribution of basic types of strategies and sub-strategies in various parts of the social space in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia. The results enable us to compare the responses to the crisis of members of different existential classes in these four societies. The paper is based on the results of a research survey undertaken within the project “Life-Strategies and Survival Strategies of Households and Individuals in South-EastEuropean Societies in the Times of Crisis” on a national proportional multistage random sample of 3906 respondents (1000 in Croatia, 1000 in Serbia, 1002 in Bosnia-Herzegovina and 904 in Slovenia).

class; household strategies and sub-strategies; social space; South-East European societies

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