Simonchuk, E. (2013). Reception of class conflict: experience of an empirical study [In Ukrainian]. Наукові записки НаУКМА. Соціологічні науки, 148, 23–29.
Симончук, О. (2013). Сприйняття класового конфлікту: досвід емпіричного дослідження. Наукові записки НаУКМА. Соціологічні науки, 148, 23–29.
Abstract
The aim of the study is to compare the level of perceptions of class conflict in post-socialist and developed Western societies. The data of different waves of the project to study social inequalities, implemented within the International Social Survey Program (ISSP), form the empirical base of this study. The results show, firstly, that the perception of different types of conflict in Ukraine, post-socialist and Western countries are quite similar (ranging between strong and not very strong). The conflict between the people at the top of society and the people at the bottom is seen as the most acute, while the conflict between the working and the middle classes is deemed the least important. Secondly, in the 1990s in the West there was a trend towards the weakening of the perception of the conflicts and in the 2000s the level stayed the same; at the post-Socialist space worsening assessment of conflicts in the post-reform period changed to the trend of the perception of social consensus. Thirdly, in all of the compared countries class positions influence the perception of conflict in society only to a small extent.