ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the city of Lodz in four separate surveys in 1965, 1967, 1976, and 1980. It is concerned with the following occupational groups: professionals; technicians; office workers; foremen; service workers; skilled workers; semiskilled workers; and unskilled labourers. The chapter retains substantive importance given the inevitability of the division of labor in a society and the consequences for individuals of performing occupational roles. It also discusses the perceptions of social class, strata, and groups; feelings about the degree to which the kind of work performed, size of income, level of education, and extent of power engender conflict; and egalitarian attitudes toward income distribution. In analyzing the everday perception of social structure in Lodz studies, there were two basic research themes. The first was related to the social groups, strata, and classes, distinguished by individuals, and how relations between these collectivities were perceived. The second theme was linked to the evaluation of social differences between people according to predetermined criteria.
