Simonchuk, E. (2014). Class positions and class identity: an analysis of relationship [In Ukrainian]. NaUKMA Scientific Notes. Sociological sciences, 161, 46–55.
Симончук, О. (2014). Класові позиції та класові ідентичності: аналіз взаємозв’язку. Наукові записки НаУКМА. Соціологічні науки, 161, 46–55.
Abstract
The article presents the results of an empirical study of class identities according to two research traditions. The analysis of data from the 2009 International Social Survey Programme was carried out within the tradition of studying the relationship between class positions and class identities. It allowed to state that the majority of the population of Ukraine, as well as of the number of post-socialist and capitalist countries has an adequate awareness of their class position. In particular, about two-thirds of the working and middle classes identify themselves with their corresponding class position. The correlation between the objective and subjective class is quite strong in all the countries under comparison (and it is higher in post – Soviet Ukraine than in the developed capitalist societies). Within the tradition of typological analysis, typologies of class identities of the middle and working classes were designed based on in-depth interviews. Consequently, the results of typological analysis allowed to specify the conclusions drawn on the basis of the mass survey data.