What is base of social classes in moder societies I
-Generally: social classes are connected to modern society
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-The labour market is the axis of modern life
-Job = money that are necessary for life in society = the level of quality of life
-living conditions
-Jobs (and labour markets in nation states) mean the organization of life, time and  individual
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-Socio-economic inequalities in the labour market
-Differences among jobs
-What are jobs? Can we order them?
-The result 1: social classes – categorical perception of social reality
-The result 2: ISEI (international socioeconomic index) – hierarchical perception of social reality
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-What are the differences between these two approaches?
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What is base of social classes in moder societies II

-Social classes are groups of people in the same labour market position
-People with the same labour market chances
-The same odds to get certain type of work
-The same odds to get the similar salary
-The same odds to do certain type of paid activity
-Are social classes the social groups today?
-Is job/employment so important that makes social class?
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What is base of social classes in moder societies

-Socio-economic inequalities in the labour market
-Differences among jobs
-What are jobs? Can we order them?
-The result 1: social classes – categorical perception of social reality
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-The result 2: ISEI (international socioeconomic index) – hierarchical perception of social reality
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-What are the differences between these two approaches?
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-Up to 1980’s huge distance between class theory and empirical indication of class differences
-A lot of authors wrote about class differences in the modern labour markets but the problem was
how to indicate them
-Empirical indication of class differences = operational definition
-Operationalization
-Theory is a base of concept of social classes
-Why social classes cannot be derived from empirical reality???
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-Theory of social classes must answer two key questions:
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-What criteria and why these criteria differentiate positions in the labour market?
-How many social classes?
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-Who belongs to which social class?
-Does the social class exist as a social group? What have social class representants  similar?
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-EGP and ESeC => ESeG
-The most popular social class empirical indications today
-EGP (Erikson, Goldthorpe and Portocarero)
-Origins in 1980s
-It was developed for occupational structure for Great Britain in 1980s.
-ESeC is updated EGP
-ESeC is developed for contemporary european countries
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-Empirical variables for identification ESeC position
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-ISCO_88, ISCO_08, demonstration
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-Questions for questionnaire, demonstration, p. 42 (questions F21, F22, F25-F26, F33-F34 ISCO) from
questionnaire ESS
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Proportion of ESeC and EGP in the Czech Republic (6 class version, 2012)



Trends in ESeC in the Czech Republic (6 class version of ESeC)