Life Success and Chances for Its Achievement in the Representations of the Inhabitants of the Russian Province

Reutov, Evgeniy V.; Reutova, Marina N.; Shavyrina, Irina V.

doi:10.31857/S013216250009480-1

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Life Success and Chances for Its Achievement in the Representations of the Inhabitants of the Russian Province

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Life Success and Chances for Its Achievement in the Representations of the Inhabitants of the Russian Province

PII

S013216250009480-1-1

DOI

10.31857/S013216250009480-1

Publication type

Article

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Published

Authors

Evgeniy V. Reutov

Occupation: Assoc. Prof.
Affiliation: Belgorod National Research University
Address: Russian Federation, Belgorod

Marina N. Reutova

Occupation: Assoc. Prof.
Affiliation: Belgorod National Research University
Address: Russian Federation, Belgorod

Irina V. Shavyrina

Occupation: Assoc. Prof.
Affiliation: Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G. Shukhov
Address: Russian Federation, Belgorod

Journal name

Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya

Edition

Issue 6

Pages

61-71

Abstract

Life success is considered as a normative model of self-realization, based on the adaptation of socially significant values and prescriptions to individual life goals and opportunities for their achievement in specific social conditions. It is shown that the key parameters of life success for the inhabitants of the Russian province are family happiness and material well-being. The hyperbolization of family happiness and the prevalence of ideas about the impossibility of achieving success in the province without ties are "acquittal" factors of passive life strategies. Professional self-realization and career growth in the hierarchy of criteria of life success, at first glance, look peripheral. But an in-depth study of the prevalence of these vital goals shows their higher importance – especially for young people.

The inequality of chances of achieving success in life is quite acutely recognized by the inhabitants of the Russian province both in relation to the economic and cultural "centers" - Moscow and St. Petersburg, and within the provincial society. The narrowness of labor markets, the low level of wages in most branches of regional economies, the manifestations of clanism, dissatisfaction with the conditions for obtaining quality education are factors of intensification of territorial-educational and labor mobility.

Almost two thirds of the respondents demonstrate their readiness to leave their region for a long time or forever, and among young people this proportion reaches 9/10. The data obtained indicate further reproduction of the model of differentiated spatial development, within which the province remains a source of various kinds of resources.

Keywords

province, spatial differentiation, regions, life success, territorial mobility

Acknowledgment

The reported study was funded by RFBR according to the research project № 18-011-00474.

Received

27.04.2020

Publication date

25.06.2020

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33872

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GOST	Reutov E., Reutova M., Shavyrina I. Life Success and Chances for Its Achievement in the Representations of the Inhabitants of the Russian Province // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2020. – Issue 6 C. 61-71 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250009480-1-1-en (circulation date: 27.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250009480-1
MLA	Reutov, Evgeniy V, Reutova, Marina N, Shavyrina, Irina V "Life Success and Chances for Its Achievement in the Representations of the Inhabitants of the Russian Province." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 6 (2020):61-71. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250009480-1
APA	Reutov E., Reutova M., Shavyrina I. (2020). Life Success and Chances for Its Achievement in the Representations of the Inhabitants of the Russian Province. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (6), pp.61-71 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250009480-1

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