Неравенствата като политически език

Abstract

The paper presents the findings of a study of the legitimacy of social inequalities in the contemporary Bulgarian society. The discussion hovers around three unexpected observations of the study – the dominance of the economic inequality in the respondents’ accounts, the waning of their normative expectations, the erosion of the difference between socialism and capitalism, and the anticipation of a revolution to come. The paper proposes two alternative accounts of those observations, one from the perspective if structural functionalist versions of the Bulgarian sociology of stratification, and one from the perspective of what Foucault called racial wars.