Class Structure in Europe: New Findings From East-West Comparisons of Social Structure and Mobility: New Findings From East-West Comparisons of Social Structure and Mobility by Max Haller

Author:Max Haller [Haller, Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Theology, Religion, Political Science, General
ISBN: 9781315489117
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1990-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

Log-linear Analysis of Differences between Poland and the Netherlands

(all men, original sample sizes)

Explanation: F = Father’s occupation, E = Education respondent, O = Occupation respondent, C = Cohort (15…55), L = Country.

Table 5b

Log-linear Analysis of Differences between Poland and the Netherlands

(nonfarm men, original sample sizes)

Explanation: F = Father’s occupation, E = Education respondent, O = Occupation respondent, C = Cohort (15…55), L = Country.

At the beginning of this paper it was assumed that the relation between education and occupation in socialist countries, in comparison with non-socialist ones, would be extremely strong. On the basis of our findings this assumption cannot be sustained. Indeed, the relation is somewhat stronger in Poland than in the Netherlands. But, in describing the reproduction process, it appears that differences only marginally contribute in this respect (for all men this contribution is significant, for nonfarm men it is not). More important, however, is that there appears to be no significant effect of changes in the association education-occupation in time, after having accepted a scanty but statistically sufficient model. This implies that–at least for the birth cohorts we have analyzed–there is no clear distinction within Poland, contrasting a prewar and postwar-socialist period.

We would now like to return to Dobson’s (1977) explanations of the assumed strong link between education and occupation in socialist countries. The fundamental basis for these explanations–the assumption that, indeed, the relation is stronger due to the transition to socialism–cannot be supported, at least not on the basis of the presented research. In addition, the difference between a socialist and a nonsocialist country is largely overridden by the effects of different marginal distributions in educational level and occupational positions.

This means that the explanations for why the relation is so strong also have little value. All kinds of assumptions about a greater openness, the role of educational credentials in a bureaucratic society, or the weaker effects of social background on achieved position, may possibly be relevant in describing differences in social reproduction between different countries. Apparently however, it does not have much to do with the transition to socialism.

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