About the training program
Research directions: Social structure and social stratification. Criteria of social stratification. Methodological approaches to the study of social structure. One-dimensionality and multidimensionality of stratification. Factors of changing socio-stratification structure. Stratification processes, their objective and subjective definition. Group social distance. Theories and processes of social differentiation/integration. Criteria and factors of social differentiation/integration. New grounds for social structure segmentation. Social inequality, main types, indicators, factors, and trends. New forms of inequality in modern societies and approaches to its study.