Finding of social stratification of the groups with low and hidh material security level (on the data EUREQUAL)

Social inequality is precondition of development of every society. It determines life poten¬tialities of people and their households in organization, support and maintenance of certain style and way of life. Research of the social structure of our society is stimulated not only by changing social-economic situation in the country, but also permanent process of repro¬duction and assimilation of different innovative practices by diverse groups of population in their professional, as well as non-manufacturing activity. Multiplicity of bases of social differentiation considerably complicates the study of social structure, determines its not- cleared-up, and often latent character, meanwhile social layers and groups have rather fuzzy borders. The main assumption, which article is based on, is that groups, assigned with mate-rial security level, are not homogenous. An experience of representatives of diverse financial groups structuring is presented in the article. It was made in order to mark out strata within these groups and to try to define characteristics (besides financial position) which can be used for describing them.