Persistent, Intensified and Emerging Rural/Urban Educational Stratifications

The rural‐urban dimension of processes of social stratification has always been particularly significant in Central and Eastern Europe. In this article, I will propose the thesis of the persistence, intensification and newly originated forms of rural/urban stratification and inequalities from a system‐theory perspective. Precommunist and communist legacies are all visible cross‐regionally as internal development patterns inside these countries. In spite of some development policies and programmes, new economic, administrative, financial and educational restructuring through decentralisation mainly contributed to maintain and produce new stratification effects.