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Class Differences in Subjective Social Distance in the Czech Republic: Like-me or Prestige Effect?

Häuberer, Julia, Jiří Šafr. 2008. „Class Differences in Subjective Social Distance in the Czech Republic: Like-me or Prestige Effect?“. Pp. 31-45 in Šafr, Jiří, Julia Häuberer (eds.). Social Distances and Stratification: Social Space in the Czech Republic. Praha: Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i.. 108 s. ISBN 978-80-7330-159-0.

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The monograph deals with stratification by means of interaction distances: analyses of Bogardus scale for occupational categories / friendship patterns and in-depth interviews. We pursue 1. homophily (like-me) hypothesis, 2. existence of subjective social class boundaries, 3. images of occupations and the society and using qualitative analysis 4. the perception of social classes and 5. how people distinguish and distance themselves from or identify with these categories/classes.

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