POVERTY TREATED AS A RUSSIAN SOCIAL PROBLEM

Lyubov Nevelichko1, Ruslan Bazhenov2*, Nella Shnarkina3, Gul'nora Arutjunova4, Irina Mironova5
1Assoc. Prof. Dr., Sholom-Alechem Priamursky State University, Russia, lnevelichko@bk.ru
2Assoc. Prof. Dr., Sholom-Alechem Priamursky State University, Russia, r-i-bazhenov@yandex.ru
3Assoc. Prof. Dr., Transbaikalian Agrarian Institute branch of Irkutsk State Agrarian University named after A.A. Ezhevsky, Russia, shnarkina@mail.ru
4Assoc. Prof. Dr., Far Eastern branch of the Russian State University of Justice, Russia, argal-69@yandex.ru
5Assoc. Prof. Dr., Khabarovsk State University of Economics and Law, Russia, mironova@ael.ru
*Corresponding author

Abstract

Poverty is one of the most burning issues of today. A lot of surveys of both Russian and foreign scientists are devoted to examining its nature and determining its triggers. A great number of researches have been done on the phenomenon of poverty from the point of view of economic, demographic, and social challenges mostly. This paper does not set objectives to study all theoretical approaches to the observation of the poverty phenomenon in detail but considers the most representative social nature of its occurrence conceptually. The paper touches upon various concepts of an approach to assessing the population’s poverty as a socio-economic feature of the society, reveals the methods and techniques so that to study living standards and poverty measurement in Russia. The purpose of this study is to determine the socio-cultural characteristic properties of the phenomenon of poverty in Russia, justify the priority guidelines in order to overcome it. The authors used such methods during the research as structural-functional, contrastive, and system-based and component evaluation. It is noted that poverty is not only one of the most complicated socio-economic issues, but also a complex marker of the social development. The authors review the objective conditions that cause indigence in the Russian society. The authors specify that the socially deprived, as a particular social group that is worth to be shown some special attitude, are moving into the background on the fringes of the fellow citizens’ consciousness. And this implies that helping the poor is being moved away from the ‘agenda’ more often which is considered to be the urgent one for the most segment of the national population. It is proved that poverty is a factor of social stress. It is adequately supported that a split in the social field is accompanied by a worldview split, which threatens the national integrity in fact. The strategic factors that provide joint relations of members of social interaction as well as stable and well-balanced functioning of the society are the principles of development and economic policy making based on the national traditions and value system.

Keywords: poverty, underclass (extreme poor), subculture of poverty, mentality, Russian nation.

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CITATION: Abstracts & Proceedings of INTCESS 2019- 6th International Conference on Education and Social Sciences, 4-6 February 2019- Dubai, UAE

ISBN: 978-605-82433-5-4