Modernization, Stratification and Elite Development in Hungary

The reforms which were instituted in Hungary in the 1960s, and which were aimed at solving the problem of economic stagnation, have resulted in changes in both social stratification and the composition of the political elite. The high level of social mobility which was characteristic of the earlier “mobilization” phase has given way to an increasing rigidity in the stratification system, and to higher levels in inequality. At the same time, differentiation within the elite stratum has been increasing; relatively separate political, technocratic, intellectual and social elites may now be distinguished, each having a distinct world-view. With the development of these changes, the pattern of conflict in Hungarian society is shifting from an inter-class to intra-class basis

Conservatism · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Elite · Inequality · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social change · Social mobility · Social stratification · Sociology · Stratification (seeds) · Technocracy · Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational Studies · Law