Theoretical Framework to PR Investigation of Middle Class in Russia

The paper is devoted to the analysis of difference theoretical sociological and PR approaches to the concept of middle class. We considered such models to the concept of middle class as. Warner V.L, Lipset S. M, Bourdieu P., Dahrendorf R., Wright, Mills C. W., Glassman R. and M.Weber. In the sociology of M.Weber, based on triple social stratification (class, status and party), the middle classes are between the dominant class and the working class. We made the conclusion that there are many examples of theories where the middle class is opposed to democracy or when real democratization took place without the birth or growth of the middle class