Социальная мобильность в постсоветской России: новый взгляд на проблему (с использованием продвинутых методов анализа)

Экономическая социология. 2014. Т. 15. № 2. С. 127–136.

Yastrebov G.

Most of existing studies of social mobility in the post-Soviet Russia provide measurements in terms of absolute mobility. However, the problem with such measurements is that they do not account for the structural differences when applied for cross-temporal (or cross-national) comparisons (which might be caused, for instance, by the change in the relative number of certain occupations, the expansion of higher education, etc.). Thus,  absolute mobility (be it downward, upward or no mobility at all) does not distinguish the change which is caused by the institutional (i.e.  qualitative), rather than the structural (i.e. quantitative) change. In this project we aim to fill in this gap and to analyze the dynamics  of relative social mobility (i.e. mobility “net” of structural factors) in the post-Soviet period. Precisely, we would use the so called log-linear  and log-multiplicative models designed to analyze contingency tables. By social mobility in this research we will understand intra- and intergenerational individual shifts in terms of occupational status, education and spatial (i.e. urban/rural) location.

Most of existing studies of social mobility in the post-Soviet Russia provide measurements in terms of absolute mobility. However, the problem with such measurements is that they do not account for the structural differences when applied for cross-temporal (or cross-national) comparisons (which might be caused, for instance, by the change in the relative number of certain occupations, the expansion of higher education, etc.). Thus, absolute mobility (be it downward, upward or no mobility at all) does not distinguish the change which is caused by the institutional (i.e.  qualitative), rather than the structural (i.e. quantitative) change. In this project we aim to fill in this gap and to analyze the dynamics  of relative social mobility (i.e. mobility “net” of structural factors) in the post-Soviet period. Precisely, we would use the so called log-linear  and log-multiplicative models designed to analyze contingency tables. By social mobility in this research we will understand intra- and intergenerational individual shifts in terms of occupational status, education and spatial (i.e. urban/rural) location.

 

Keywords: постсоветская Россия, социальная мобильность, равенство шансов, social mobility, Post-Soviet Russia, intergenerational mobility, межпоколенная мобильность, equality of opportunity, absolute mobility, relative mobility, intragenerational mobility, loglinear analysis, абсолютная мобильность, относительная мобильность, внутрипоколенная мобильность, логлинейный анализ

Publication based on the results of: Социальная мобильность в постсоветской России: новый взгляд на проблему с использованием продвинутых методов анализа (Social Mobility in the Post-Soviet Russia: a Revision of Existing Measurements by Drawing on Advanced Methods) (2014)