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Social inequality, mobility, and the illegitimate inheritance of status: recruitment and career patterns of GDR business elites
Soziale Ungleichheit, Mobilität und illegitime Statusvererbung: die Rekrutierungs- und Karrieremuster von DDR-Wirtschaftseliten
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Abstract "Functional elites of the GDR, the so-called cadres, formed a rather large and inhomogeneous stratum of the socialist society. Empirical evidence based on quantitative analyses of large prosopographical and biographical datasets unveils paradoxical patterns of social inequality underlying the proces... mehr
"Functional elites of the GDR, the so-called cadres, formed a rather large and inhomogeneous stratum of the socialist society. Empirical evidence based on quantitative analyses of large prosopographical and biographical datasets unveils paradoxical patterns of social inequality underlying the processes of recruitment and career mobility of cadres. Hereditary aspects had a greater impact on the allocation of social status than expected and thwarted the socialist project. Not only did a New Class or 'socialist intelligentsia' emerge, increasing social closure also reverberated a distinguishably 'bourgeois' tradition. In the 1980s, workers and cooperative farmers belonged to the most disadvantaged social strata in the 'Workers' and Peasants' State'. While this could be observed for different sectors of the GDR society, economy in particular gave an instructive example. Factories and large industrial combines (Kombinate) were led by businessmen who often did not even have a documented worker's origin. Instead, and in the first place, they boasted required aspects of high cultural capital, such as academic and special vocational training, and were politically reliable with regard to SED state party alignment and honorary functions. Thus, even the descendents of 'capitalist' entrepreneurs, persons with a National Socialist family background or persons with a personal NS past had fairly good prospects to embark on careers in the GDR economy. The paper briefly discusses statistical analyses of data on higher executive personnel such as director generals (CEOs), branch directors, and heads of department." (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Rekrutierung; soziale Herkunft; Elite; Wirtschaftselite; Eliteforschung; Mobilität; Klassengesellschaft; Bildung; Kader; historische Analyse; DDR-Forschung; Manager; Familie; Karriere; Legitimität; DDR; Vergangenheitsbewältigung; Reproduktion; Loyalität; soziale Ungleichheit; Statuszuweisung
Klassifikation
allgemeine Geschichte
Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
Methode
empirisch; historisch; empirisch-quantitativ
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2010
Seitenangabe
S. 117-133
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 35 (2010) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.35.2010.3.117-133
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)