Sociological researches of the class-stratified structure in Russia and Serbia, an opinion about Z. Golenkova's contribution

In her works, Zinaida Golenkova came to the conclusion that social structure of contemporary Russian society is the product of constant and deep changes leading to the ownership and total economic transformations, to the social polarization of interests and political dominance of specific social groups. Russian society includes the groups of the poor (35%), slightly well off (30%), moderately well off (21%), highly well off (about 10%) and rich (5%). Such a specificity of the Russian society results from the fact that world globalization imposed the process of contradictory social transformation. There are three models of social stratification: the partnership model, the conflict model and the status-neutral model. This article/presentation critically analyzes Z. Golenkova's opinion that Marx's theory of class stratification is mono-dimensional, while Weber's standpoint was that social stratification was three-dimensional. At the end, this presentation provides partial and conditional comparisons between the results of the researches done by the Yugoslav and Russian sociologists about the class-stratificational division of their societies