{"id":27438,"date":"2026-05-27T05:05:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/?p=27438"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:17:33","slug":"estonians-perceptions-of-social-stratification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/no-53\/estonians-perceptions-of-social-stratification\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonians\u2019 Perceptions of Social Stratification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TextSwifttaandetaINGLISE lead\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">A representative survey shows that while Estonians value an egalitarian society with a strong middle class, they perceive current society as increasingly elitist. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"TextSwifttaandetaINGLISE\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">This gap between ideal and reality has persisted over time. Lower-status groups are more critical, viewing society as more unequal, while higher-status groups see less inequality. Compared to 1994, inequality is perceived as slightly reduced, but still significant. Views of the past are divided: less successful respondents see Soviet society as more equal, while others view it as elitist. Future expectations are also stratified \u2013 lower-income groups are more likely to expect continued inequality rather than the emergence of a broad middle class.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A representative survey shows that while Estonians value an egalitarian society with a strong middle class, they perceive current society as increasingly elitist. This gap between ideal and reality has persisted over time. Lower-status groups are more critical, viewing society as more unequal, while higher-status groups see less inequality. Compared to 1994, inequality is perceived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"class_list":["post-27438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-53","topic-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27442,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27438\/revisions\/27442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}