Colloquium in Aug. 2021
Suh, Hyungjun (Professor, School of Sociology at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia)
This study investigates the conceptualization of housing inequality, and its impacts on subjective wellbeing and perceived social support in the context of post-socialist countries.
As one of the ways social class is revealed, housing inequality is named ‘housing status’ and conceptualized as five dimensions: ownership, property rights, space, amenities, and environment. Analyzing with structural equation model social survey data collected in Russia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan in 2015, the study finds the net effects of each of the dimensions on subjective welling. The study also finds that in Russia perceived social support is positively associated with having ownership and property rights, and that this relationship is mediated by emotional factors and the length of residence.
Based on these findings, the study claims its contributions as follows. First, it contributes to the sociological theorization and conceptualization of housing inequality, and explores the social contexts of post-socialist countries that have been less studied compared to those of the Anglosphere and West European countries. Finally, it identifies mechanisms through which housing status affects sociological variables.
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