The Social Profile and Spatial Imprint of Elite Groups Among Higher Occupational Categories in Athens

The paper will use a combination of detailed data of the 2021 census (type, level and country of studies; occupational status; available housing space and tenure etc.) and other accessible data (e.g., the detailed distribution of real estate prices across Athens) to delimit the spatiality of concentrated privilege, assuming that concentrated privilege works in a similar way with concentrated deprivation. In a recent research we have shown that the expansion of high occupational categories (professions) in Athens reinforced internal divisions (based on characteristics such as family traditions of pursuing the same profession, advanced studies in prestigious institutions, and employer or self-employed status). However, at the same time social segregation in Athens remained relatively moderate, as the high rate of home ownership and the low rate residential mobility obstructed the translation of socio-economic inequality into spatial division (among others see Maloutas 2016). The paper will examine whether there are changes of the elite spatiality during the 2010s which alter the above-mentioned patterns.

References

Maloutas T, Souliotis N (2022) Exploring class differences within occupational categories: The case of professionals in Athens, 1991–2011, in C. Hugree, E. Penissat, A. Spire and J. Hjellbrekke (eds) Class boundaries. The Bourdieusian approach in perspective, London, Routledge, pp. 98-113.

Maloutas, T. (2016). Socio-economic segregation in Athens at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Tiit Tammaru, Szymon Marcińczak, Maarten van Ham, Sako Musterd (eds) Socio-economic segregation in European capital cities. East Meets West, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 156-185.