Date: 2019
Type: Book
Class cultures in post-socialist Eastern Europe
London : Routledge, 2019, BASEES ; Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 125
CEPIĆ, Dražen, Class cultures in post-socialist Eastern Europe, London : Routledge, 2019, BASEES ; Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 125
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/60685
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
This book investigates the extent to which social class has changed in Eastern Europe since the fall of communism. Based on extensive original research, the book discusses how ideas about class are viewed by both working class and middle class people. The book examines how such people’s social identities are shaped by various factors including economic success, culture and friendship networks. The present class situation in Eastern Europe is contrasted to what prevailed in Communist times, when societies were officially classless, but nevertheless had Communist party elites.
Table of Contents:
-- 1. Introduction
-- 2. The Uses of Culture Among the Croatian Upper Middle Class
-- 3. Rocking in a Free World: Postsocialist Entrepreneurs and Narratives of Success
-- 4. The Few and the Many: The Working Class in Eastern Europe
-- 5. Friendship and Equality: Cross-Class Sociability in the Postsocialist Context
-- 6. Conclusion
-- Appendix 1: List of respondents
-- Appendix 2: Sampling procedure
-- Appendix 3: Social network analysis
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/60685
ISBN: 9781138321366
Earlier different version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/27181
Version: Is partly based on author's EUI PhD thesis, 2013.