Published: 15 July 2010
For the social structure of contemporary Russian society is characterized by disintegration tendencies, which are due as different rates of social change and spatial unevenness of the reform and regional specificity. These effects stratification processes are among the major social problems of contemporary Russian society. One such problem is the unequal access to education, reflected in particular in primary vocational education. Social selection leads to the marginalization of the representatives of the poor and to establish their lower social status.
