Polarizing Mechanisms and Factors of the Middle Class in Transition

Considering that the Romanian transition represented a favourable frame which was properly used by certain groups in order to make themselves winners of the transition, my intention is to unravel the real metabolism of these social processes and their result analyzed from the perspective of the winners and losers of the transition. My intention is to analyze the action and the result of this action related to certain categories and to the manner of presentation of the social space limited by certain types of losers, respectively, winners of the particular Romanian post-communist transition. The reference situation for the analysis of the structure of the middle class is a meritocratic model of social mobility. Based on the premises that the Romanian transition represented a favourable context properly used by certain groups in order to transform themselves in winners of the transition, I intend to analyse the mechanisms and the factors involved in this process relating to certain categories and a certain manner of structuring the social space limited by certain types of losers, respectively winners of the particular Romanian post-communist transition.