The Internet and digital divide in South Eastern Europe

The social paradigm of the information and communication technologies (ICTs) has fundamentally changed many aspects of everyday life but ICTs have also become an indispensable part of it. In this chapter, we take social theories developed by the classical sociologists like Weber (1924), Giddens (2006), and Meyrowitz (2008) and apply them to the issues of Internet inequality. Weber's stratification theory is grounded in the core perspective on inequality, and we examine how access to the Internet combines with variables such as class, status, education.