The Theory of Social Quality as an Innovative Tool for the Study of Society (Reflections on the International Sociological Forum: "Social Quality and Social Governance»)

  • Vyacheslav Nikolayevitch Bobkov Institute of Socio-Economic Studies of Population Russian Academy of Sciences bobkovvn@mail.ru
  • A. K. Akimov M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University atnazarov@mail.ru
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Bobkov V.N., Akimov A.K. The Theory of Social Quality as an Innovative Tool for the Study of Society (Reflections on the International Sociological Forum: "Social Quality and Social Governance»). Living Standards of the Population in the Regions of Russia. 2018. Vol. 14. No. 4. P. 115-120. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/1999-9836-2018-10047 (in Russ.).

Abstract

It is shown that the theory of social quality is developed as a philosophical paradigm in relation to the modern capitalist modernization of the economy today, accompanied by the loss of the "social component".  The indicators of social quality allowing to carry out subjective assessment of quality of life not at the individual level, but at the level of country societies are considered. The article describes the results of the international sociological forum "Social Quality and Social Management", held in Beijing, China, in September 2018. The features of the Russian scientific school of studying the level and quality of life formed in the All-Russia Centre of Living Standards, and allowing to measure the level and quality of life in the unity of its objective and subjective characteristics are outlined. The features of noospheric socialism which is a model of sustainable development of society, allowing to combine the development of the theory of social quality and the theory of living standards and quality of life, and developed by Russian scientists belonging to the noosphere scientific school have been analyzed.
Keywords:
social quality, socio-economic security, social inclusion, social cohesion, social powers, living standards and quality of life, noosphere socialism, Russian theory of level and quality of life

Author Biographies

Vyacheslav Nikolayevitch Bobkov, Institute of Socio-Economic Studies of Population Russian Academy of Sciences
Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honoured Science Worker of the Russian Federation, Head of the Laboratory of Problems of Living Standards and Quality of Life 
A. K. Akimov, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Head of the Department of Labour Economics and Social Relations

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Bobkov, V. N., & Akimov, A. K. (2018). The Theory of Social Quality as an Innovative Tool for the Study of Society (Reflections on the International Sociological Forum: "Social Quality and Social Governance»). Living Standards of the Population in the Regions of Russia, 14(4), 115-120. https://doi.org/10.19181/1999-9836-2018-10047