The Structure of Society in Terms of Revenue: Adaptation of Modern Western Techniques to Russian Realities

In this paper I use the existing western theories of social stratification by income in the framework of Russian realities. The aim of the study is to determine the boundaries separating vulnerable people and the middle class (based on the existing western techniques) and its subsequent verification. A clear understanding of the nature of the middle class was defined to achieve this goal. Moreover middle class and poors were differentiated from each other and the aforementioned border was found and checked for verification. The object was the population of Russia, subject - the group of the poor and middle class, as well as the boundary separating them. The research was based on the two most common approaches to stratification of income and determination of the number of middle-class absolute and relative based on RLMS data.