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Yuriy Sergeyevich Bortsov ¹, Sergey Aleksandrovich Dyuzhikov ², Aleksandr Vasilyevich Popov ², Andrey Valeriyevich Rachipa ², Irina Anatoliyevna Yankina ³

Affiliations
1 Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, RU
2 Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
3 Taganrog Institute of Management and Economics, Taganrog, Russia

Abstract

Background/Objectives: The way the problems of "catch-up" development of Russian regions is presented and fixed in the public mind often provokes inter-regional migration, which narrows to the limits of redistribution of labor resources in the raw areas or cities. Methods/Statistical analysis: This article is based on the methodological apparatus of sociological theories identifying the nature and content of the modernization process and social change in general. The methodological basis is constituted by works of Russian and foreign scientists developing the theory of complex systems, decision-making, raising the questions of regional management and management of large territorial environments. Findings: Changes in the geopolitical situation, the transition to high-performance economy make impossible to claim that if the Russian Federation is a self-sufficient country as for its territory and mineral resources, the development of the regions is provided by "leaders". In our view, having major regional differences this scheme of "locomotive pulling the wagons" is not optimal, since there are serious battles in the distribution of social and economic resources, and recipient regions are in a position of eternal asylums. Noting that the colossal amount of regional differences relates to the fact that the scheme "the rich - poor" regions is reproduced, and 2/3 of the RF subjects having the proportion of people with incomes below the subsistence level exceeds the Russian average,12 it can be stated, that the regional environment can, if not radically, then substantially change this situation through the new redefining of movement of technologies and intensity of communications. Applications/Improvements: Regional environment should attract more scientists' attraction as it has sufficient intellectual, social and human potential for social development.

Keywords

Inter-regional Relations, Regional Development, Regional Environment, Russian Regions

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Yury Yurievich Volkov ¹, Dmitriy Valerievich Krotov ¹, Andrey Valeriyevich Rachipa ¹, Dmitriy Sergeevich Zagutin ², Zaur Askerbievich Zhapuev ³

Affiliations
1 Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
2 Don State Technical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation
3 Kabardino-Balkarian State University, Nalchik, Russia

Abstract

Background/Objectives: Financiers represent a professional and social group pursuing social legitimacy and self-legitimation on the basis of professional competence, autonomy of action and transformational impact on the Russian economy and Russian society. Methods/Statistical analysis: The empirical basis of the paper is represented by the results of independent sociological research, part of which being a survey among the bank employees in Volgograd and the Volgograd region (Volzhsky, Kamyshin, Mikhailovka, Uryupinsk, Frolovo) titled "The attitude of the staff to the implementation of social policies by the banking sector" (February - March, 2013, n = 350). Findings: The agents of financial capital have not exhausted their potential of the independent carriers of social activity in contrast to the traditional agents (political parties, public institutions), since the issue of converting financial capital into human capital has not lost its relevance, but on the contrary, there is an increasing public demand for this. Secondly, while the agents of the financial capital have to develop codes to reconsider the financial activity, in this new situation the financial capital acts as an increasingly powerful tool of innovation, rather than supports the "status quo" in the society. Thirdly, sociological definition of the subjectivity of financial capital involves an appeal to the invariance of finance as a means of social positioning. Applications/Improvements: The concept of social capitalization provides an opportunity to see the logic of an agent acting in the financial sub-field, as well as to track the path of financial resources converting into the power ones.

Keywords

Financial Capital, Financial Subfield , Sociological Science, Subjectivity, Russian Society

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