Bolte onion
Bolte-onion describes a social class model of the population of the then Federal Republic of Germany , which the German sociologist Karl Martin Bolte developed in the 1960s as a contribution to social structure analysis.
In Bolte's concept, the social classes are created by dividing the population according to three criteria:
- education
- Amount of income
- Similarity of professions
Not all three criteria have to be met. If society is examined and classified according to these criteria, the typical onion shape emerges. According to Bolte, the traditional division into social classes (for example into lower, middle and upper classes ) can be combined with the older division into “old” and “new” middle class and the working class .
See also
- Dahrendorfhäuschen (West German layer model from 1965)
- Sinus milieus (target group typology)
literature
- Karl Martin Bolte , Stefan Hradil : Social inequality in the Federal Republic of Germany. 6th edition. Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1988, ISBN 3-8100-0733-1 .
- Rainer Geissler , Thomas Meyer: The social structure of Germany. For social development with a balance sheet for unification. 4th, revised and updated edition. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-42923-X .