The Theory and Reality of Social Inequality

Abstract

The article offers a number of measures for reducing the excessive stratification of the Russian society.

Keywords:

• social inequality
• socioeconomic relations
• minimum wage
• living wage

This article is the republished version of:

The Theory and Reality of Social Inequality

Notes

1. O.I. Shkaratam, Sotsiologiia neravenstva. Teoriia i real’nost’ (Moscow: Izd. Dom Vysshei shkoly ekonomiki, 2012), p. 201.

2. E.Sh. Gontmakher, “Rossiiskie sotsial’nye neravenstva kak factor obshchestvenno-politicheskoi stabil’nosti,” Voprosy ekonomiki, 2014, no. 4, pp. 68–81.

3. According to Rosstat data.

4. In Russian, prozhitochnyi minimum, which can also be translated as subsistence minimum. –Trans.

5. According to Rosstat data.

6. M. Popov, “Ravenstvo ili smert’,” Smart Money, 2006, no. 20, pp. 15–16.

7. Gontmakher, op. cit., p. 68.

8. Ibid., p. 76.

9. According to Rosstat data.

10. T.L. Luk’ianchikova, “Mozhno li umen’shit’ rassloenie rossiian po dokhodam?” Chelovek i trud, 2013, no. 11–12, pp. 19–20.

11. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, March 5, 2015, No. 112, “O denezhnom soderzhanii federal’nykh gosudarstvennykh grazhdanskikh sluzhashchikh apparata Schetnoi palaty Rossiiskoi Federatsii”; Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, February 27, 2015, No. 110, “O denezhnom voznagrazhdenii lits, zameshchaiushchikh otdel’nye gosudarstvennye dolzhnosti Rossiiskoi Federatsii, i nekotorykh inykh lits”; Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, March 5, 2015, “O denezhnom soderzhanii federal’nykh gosudarstvennykh grazhdanskikh sluzhashchikh Administratsii Prezidenta Rossiysko’ Federatsii”; Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, March 5, 2015, No. 113, “O denezhnom soderzhanii federal’nykh gosudarstvennykh grazhdanskikh sluzhashchikh Apparata Pravitel’stva Rossiyskoi Federatsii.”

12. Luk’ianchikova, op. cit., p. 21.

13. Ibid.