SOCIAL STRATIFICATION BASED ON LIFE CHANCES: OPERATIONALIZATION FOR MASS SURVEYS
The present paper opera-tionalizes one of the oldest concepts in the sociological literature about social stratiﬁcation. Although the concept of life chances is well studied, its opera-tionalization for purposes of stratiﬁcation studies is not a trivial task, which needs a broader and deeper discussion. To ﬁll this gap in the literature, the author con-siders life chances in terms of Weber’s idea of positive and negative privileges. The author proposes a bipolar ‘map’ of life chances in key areas of life such as economic conditions, work situation, human capital accumulation, and con-sumption and leisure activities