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Stratification in Present-Day Russia and the New Middle Class
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Our social and political science's class-based theoretical and methodological paradigm has been based on the premise that political actors are classes, people, and parties as mentioned in this paper, and the category of "interests" was considered abstract.Abstract:
Our social and political science's class-based theoretical and methodological paradigm has been based on the premise that political actors are classes, people, and parties. Such concepts as "middle class," "ruling class," "elite," "marginal groups," "interest groups," "branch clan," and so on never fitted comfortably into official scholarship. The category of "interests" was considered abstract.read more
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