Влияние культуры на социальное самочувствие как условие преодоления расслоения современного российского общества

Abstract

The article presents the authors’ development of theoretical approaches to the study of the actual problem of overcoming the social stratification in modern Russian society. The study is based on the authors’ research of the past years, conceptual developments of the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the field of the state of the social structure of Russia and the sociology of culture. The authors propose an original concept for the development of specific measures to determine social stratification based on the factors of cultural influence on the social well-being of citizens. The article contains a well-founded definition of the concept of social well-being, provides a list and analysis of factors determining the influence of culture on social well-being, supposes the latest data characterizing the current state of Russian culture, and its various types. Based on the factor analysis of research data from previous years, the authors propose a conceptual scheme for studying the influence of culture on social well-being as a means of overcoming the stratification of modern Russian society. The authors convincingly prove that their proposed approach to the problem under study is not only innovative, which contributes to the theory of sociological cognition of modern social processes, but also makes it possible to develop practical socio-cultural measures aimed at consolidating Russian society when obtaining new empirical research data using this methodology.