Prestige vs. Excellence as Determinants of Role Attractiveness

Abstract

The trend toward a tightening of upward mobility chances which has been observed in other soviet states undergoing faster industrialization than Czechoslovakia seems to be more pronounced in this already industrialized country. We would thus hazard a conclusion-however tenuous because of the inaccessibility of many data-that the command economy of totalitarian societies discourages processes of social mobility once the rank order of the social structure has been set.