K sociální stratifikaci v Československu 1991

The results of the sociological survey Social Transformation in Czechoslovakia (October 1991) are reviewed from the angle of historical comparison with data from 1967 and 1984. The comparative purpose determines: the use of the multidimensional social status concept; the choice of the status-forming variables and the way of their operationalization; the focus on the individual social status of economically active males; and finally the application of correlation, factor and cluster-analyses as main methods of data organization. The correlation matrix shows a moderate rise of stratification as compared with the de-stratified society in 1984 (however not yet on the level of 1967) and the first signs of a de-totalitarization. By factor-analysis, for the first time an autonomous factor of individual total income level separated itself. The description of 11 relevant social groupings found out by cluster-analysis is presented. The explanatory force of the EGP class-scheme, of the International Socio-Economic Status Index and of the groupings based on cluster-analysis are compared. The latter explains most concretely and objectively the actual social reality of the present-date Czechoslovak society.