The societal responsibility and its influence on the re¬sponsibility in different spheres of human activity

  • Olga A. Bezrukova Zaporozhye National Technical University, Zaporozhye bezrukova_olga@inbox.ru
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Bezrukova O.A. The societal responsibility and its influence on the re¬sponsibility in different spheres of human activity. Humanities of the South of Russia. 2016. No. 3. P. 36-45. (in Russ.).

Abstract

Social responsibility differentiated towards various re­sponsibility objects, depending on human activity sphere and social level is examined. The au­thor concentrates on human responsibility, which is called societal responsibility, for the state of things in a country. The purpose of the article is to determine the influence of human societal responsibility level on responsibility in various spheres of the activity. Through analyzing the empiric research data the links be­tween individual responsibility levels were found, the zones of relative autonomy were distinguished where societal responsibility is minimal and rather high.The author raises the problem of irresponsibility syndrome of internal deter­mination: what is basic in constructing of responsibility/ irresponsibility - social es­capism or isolationism, when a person doesn't consider to be responsi­ble for a society important, general personality set connected with the values orientation or feeling of social vacuum around, when a person doesn't feel his mutual responsibility and believes that he is surrounded by mostly irresponsible people. Mentioned problems are studied on the material of empiric research, made in Zaporozhye in 2013 (the selection is representative - 700 people were ques­tioned). The answers on the questions about private responsibility and evaluation of others responsibility definitely proves that a man perceiving and de­fining his milieu as mostly irresponsible, i.e. deprived of sociality individualists rejects himself to be responsible for a society. Individualized society or a society of individuals suggests that a person who considers himself an independent perso­nality perceives others also as individual personalities who don't care about the so­ciety and state destiny. Therefore the person doesn't take the responsibility for the order in the country. Further analysis shows that irresponsibility syndrome mostly touches upon societal level. The sphere of close social surrounding, close social environment and direct activity, set on moral isolationism is less strong.Societal irresponsibility is connected with irresponsibility to close so­cial surrounding, but this second level of irresponsibility is revealed less dis­tinctly. The syndrome of social irresponsibility implies that people who don't consider themselves to have the right to take responsibility for the state of things in the country at the same time possess low indicators of subjective responsibility refer­ring to other aspects of sociality and their existence world.Considering responsibility/ irresponsibility in social discourse allows to find out un­veiling additional aspects of human and society feature. The data of empiric re­search proved that the levels of responsibility are interconnected.
Keywords:
responsibility, social responsibility, societal responsibility, sociality, levels of sociality

Author Biography

Olga A. Bezrukova, Zaporozhye National Technical University, Zaporozhye
кандидат социологических наук, доцент 

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Bezrukova, O. A. (2016). The societal responsibility and its influence on the re¬sponsibility in different spheres of human activity. Humanities of the South of Russia, (3), 36-45. Retrieved from https://www.jour.fnisc.ru/index.php/hsr/article/view/3288
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SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN MODERN SOCIETY