Resources and capital of different social classes in modern Latvia

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dc.contributor.authorKomarova, Vera
dc.contributor.authorMietule, Iveta
dc.contributor.authorArbidane, Iluta
dc.contributor.authorTumalavičius, Vladas
dc.contributor.authorKokarevica, Anita
dc.contributor.institutionRīga Stradiņš University
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-16T21:03:49Z
dc.date.available2022-08-16T21:03:49Z
dc.date.issued2022-06-04
dc.descriptionFunding Information: ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia within the project “Transformation of Educational Value for Cultural and Economic Growth of Social Community (IzVeTSKKEI)” (Grant number: Izp-2020/1-0178). Publisher Copyright: © 2022, Institute of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. All rights reserved.
dc.description.abstractThis study aims to analyze the resources and capital of modern Latvia’s social classes located close to the opposite poles of social structure. The article intends to address two research tasks: (1) checking the possibility of identifying social classes in modern Latvia; (2) searching for differences in resources and capital between the identified social classes. The study is based conceptually on the multi-criteria theory of social classes and the conception of ‘ideal types’ as well as on the theory of capital and the innovative resource-based approach. The article presents results of the survey conducted in Latvia (2019, n = 798). Research results show that ‘ideal types’ of the working class and the middle class, identified by two objective (income and education) and one subjective (self-identification) criteria, together form only 9% of modern Latvia’s society. These social classes differ among themselves not so much by the amount of resources as by the amount of capital, meaning that the working class in Latvia is less able to capitalize resources.en
dc.description.statusPeer reviewed
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dc.identifier.citationKomarova, V, Mietule, I, Arbidane, I, Tumalavičius, V & Kokarevica, A 2022, 'Resources and capital of different social classes in modern Latvia', Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 500-512. https://doi.org/10.15549/jeecar.v9i3.861
dc.identifier.doi10.15549/jeecar.v9i3.861
dc.identifier.issn2328-8272
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.rsu.lv/jspui/handle/123456789/9449
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85132040729&partnerID=8YFLogxK
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectLatvia
dc.subjectSocial classes
dc.subjectResource portfolio
dc.subjectTotal capital
dc.subjectDegree of the resource capitalization
dc.subjectLower working class
dc.subjectMiddle class
dc.subject5.4 Sociology
dc.subject5.2 Economy and Business
dc.subject1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database
dc.titleResources and capital of different social classes in modern Latviaen
dc.type/dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/researchoutputtypes/contributiontojournal/article

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