ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the social inequalities and scholarship of the dissolution of Yugoslavia. It describes the studies which prioritize social class; questions of social inequalities or stratification have been curiously marginal in the study of Yugoslavia's dissolution. In 1966 'Socialism and Changes in the Class Structure' was the theme of a gathering of the Yugoslav Sociological Association and reports on the event were published in the journal Sociologija heralding social inequalities within socialist Yugoslavia as an increasingly widespread field of scholarly interest. With the 1991 dissolution of the state and outbreak of war, issues of social inequality appeared to recede in the research agenda of Yugoslav studies. Ethnographies which can inform on Yugoslav dissolution are far and few between and tend to focus on rural communities rather than the dynamic urban spaces where social movements and political mobilizations were focused.
