EFFECTS OF SOCIAL ORIGIN AND CLASS POSITION ON MATERIAL WELL-BEING. AN APPROACH ON SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN THE CITY OF BUENOS AIRES 2012-2013

This article explores to what extent the class position, both of origin and destination, explains unequal living conditions, measured by access to certain levels of mate-rial well-being. In this way, three edges of social inequal-ity are explored: conditions, opportunities and results. Explanatory models will be developed to understand how certain conditions of origin and individuals inter-vene in the access to three central assets that shape the wellbeing of households: level of labour income, home-ownership and level of material consumption. The assumed methodology is of a quantitative nature, using multiple linear regression and binomial logistic re-gression techniques. The source of data comes from the Survey on social mobility and opinions on current society of the year 2012-2013 conducted in the Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires.