In this introduction, the author contextualises the research into social stratification
in Serbia as a long-term project on the transformation of class structure in that country. The
researchers in this project have established how the systemic transformation in Serbia unfold-
ed, doubly conditioned by the more general European processes of postsocialist transforma-
tion and the specific conditions in Serbia. The surveys on representative samples of the adult
population in the whole of Serbia were conducted in 2003/2004,
2012 and 2018. The author lays out the methodological basis and
the contents of the studies included in the special issue