What do we Know about the Socio-Structural Peculiarities of Southeast European Societies?
Abstract
Based on a sociological concept of social structure, the article queries the peculiarities and the particular difficulties of analyzing the social structure of south-eastern European societies. It is empirically shown that conventional class and stratification theoretical approaches do not go far enough. Four structural principles and reproductive mechanisms are shown to be particularly relevant for understanding social inequality in Southeast European societies, namely political exclusion, socio-cultural closure, meritocratic-functional differentiation and transnational migration and its repercussions.
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