Covid and the politics of nature

2021 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-67
Author(s):  
Ted Benton
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Transformative Politics ◽  
Politics Of Nature

It is argued that the decades before 2020 saw a steady rise in public concern about and political recognition of symptoms of a crisis in human social and economic relations to (the rest of) nature. For many, the Covid-19 pandemic has become linked to that, as well as providing, despite the grief and suffering, moments when a different relationship to nature could be experienced. The possibility of a transformative politics towards a just reconciliation between social life and nature may be more visible, but will be ruthlessly resisted by those in power.

The Philosophy of Social Life

Philosophy ◽  
1929 ◽  
Vol 4 (13) ◽  
pp. 76-86
Author(s):  
C. Delisle Burns
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Partial Analysis ◽  
Full Explanation ◽  
The One

Only one adult in a hundred gets his food and clothing without doing anything directly in exchange for them. The other ninety-nine form active parts of the system of relations in society which will be called, in what follows here, economic; and even the one in the hundred who does not give, takes something, as children and imbeciles take, out of the store of services which are economic life. Boots and bread are but the bridges over which one man is connected with another, through services exchanged. The philosophy of social life, therefore, must “place” these economic relations in the whole complex unity of human experience. The science of economics analyses some of the aspects of the relations of men in exchanging services, and it provides a language which is already sufficiently current to be used here without full explanation of the terms. Therefore, without more ado, the philosophical aspects of the economic system may be considered in the terms of economic science, but outside the frontiers proper to that partial analysis.

scholarly journals APPROACHES TO DEFINING THE ESSENCE OF DIGITAL STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Goloborodko A.
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Strategic Partnership ◽  
Relational Model ◽  
Development Economic ◽  
Strategic Partnerships ◽  
Cooperation Agreement ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Common System ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Definition Of

In modern conditions of a transformational economy, the processes of forming partnerships are especially relevant, based on the construction of the concept of digital strategic partnership, which opens up new competitive opportunities in the search for rational behavior of economic microsystems. The article identifies three main stages of globalization and the place of digitalization of all processes of social life. The studied features of the development of digital strategic partnerships made it possible to highlight the prerequisites for creating digital strategic partnerships and the main factors influencing their development: economic, political, social, technical and cultural factors. The controversy of scientific views on the definition of the essence of the concept of "stra-tegic partnership" is considered, two main approaches to the definition of the essence of the concept of "strategic partnership" are highlighted – according to the goals of creation and levels of economic relations. According to the goal of creating strategic partnerships, it identifies such classification features as: partnership as an agreement, partnership as a model of competition, partnership as a relational model, partnership as an international alliance of enterprises. According to the levels of economic de-velopment, strategic partnerships are distinguished at the macro level, at the meso level and at the micro level. The author pres-ents the definition of the term "Digital Strategic Partnership" as a set of parties (enterprises) to achieve a certain strategic goal, in particular to increase efficiency, which implies the creation of a common system of values and processes based on the use of resources. and partner competencies based on a single digital platform for business organizations. The basic concepts that reveal the essence of digital strategic partnership are revealed – cooperation, agreement, interaction, integration, partnership, strategy. In the new digital economy, digital strategic partnerships enable businesses to gain new competency benefits by gaining a single, open information network of access to partner resources, including markets, technology, capital, and human resources.Keywords: globalization, partnership, strategic partnership, digital strategic partnership. У статті визначено три основні етапи глобалізації і місце цифровізації всіх процесів суспільного життя. Сформовано передумови створення цифрових стратегічних партнерств і чинники впливу на їх розвиток. Розглянуто полеміку наукових поглядів щодо визначення сутності поняття «стратегічне партнерство», виділено підходи до визначення сутності поняття «стратегічне партнерство» за метою створення партнерства: як угода, як конкурентна модель, як реляційна модель, як міжнародний альянс підприємств і за рівнями економічного розвитку: на макрорівні, мезорівні і мікрорівні. Представлено визначення терміна «цифрове стратегічне партнерство» та основні поняття, що розкривають суть цифрового стратегічного партнерства.Ключові слова: глобалізація, партнерство, стратегічне партнерство, цифрове стратегічне партнерство

scholarly journals THE OPERATION OF COMPANIES IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Галина Крохичева ◽  
Galina Krohicheva ◽  
Елена Сидоренко ◽  
Elena Sidorenko ◽  
Татьяна Побиванец ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Great Emphasis ◽  
State Control ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Russian Federation

The digital economy in the Russian Federation as an independent structure began to form and develop not so long ago, but it is aimed at all spheres of society. The state places great emphasis on the development of this form of economic relations. The Industry 4.0 project shows us the scale of the digital economy in Russia. We can say that this is a full-fledged transition of the functioning of society’s life to the technological sphere. The purpose of digitalization is to automate all spheres of society, improve the social life of the population, simplify state control over the circulation of funds in the country, and more. Therefore, with the development of digitalization, it is important to identify the characteristics of enterprises in the aspects of electronic commerce.

scholarly journals Neglected Spaces in Peripheral Places : Homeworkers and the Creation of a New Economic Centre

2005 ◽  
Vol 31 (83) ◽  
pp. 247-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Mackenzie
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Cooperative Networks ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
The West ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Using Data

This paper suggests that the current recession and restructuring may be creating new centres of economic and social innovation, the analytically and politically neglected homes and communities in the "peripheral" regions of Canada. Using data from the West Kootenay area of British Columbia, it is argued that people are responding to declining employment opportunities by utilizing the resources remaining to them in their homes and communities to develop new survival strategies. The paper focusses on home based businesses and cooperative networks in two fields — childeare and craft manufacture — which have been established primarily by women. These businesses and networks are assessed in terms of their mobilization of local resources and their impact on the economic and social life of the region. It is argued that, despite serious shortcomings, these may provide indications of new gender relations, based on family or household partnerships, and new economic relations, based on meeting local needs rather than the profitability requirements of corporations.

scholarly journals ENTREPRENEURIAL CONSCIOUSNESS AS THE BASIS OF CREATIVITY IN BUSINESS

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-79
Author(s):  
N.V. Ibragimova ◽  
◽  
A.S. Baktymbet ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Labor Standards ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
System Component ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Special Place ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Consciousness

Economic consciousness is characterized as a system component of con-sciousness in connection with the special place that business activity occupies in the social life of modern man. The formation of economic consciousness begins with self-awareness as a subject of economic relations, that is, with the formation of economic consciousness, the possibility of acti-vating entrepreneurial activity. Economic consciousness is the basis for the formation of such a class as creative entrepreneurs. Creative entrepreneurship is fundamentally different from the usual labor standards, it requires great skills, the ability to constantly learn.

scholarly journals Methods of Combating the Legalization of Proceeds from Crime through Non-State Pension Funds

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 293
Author(s):  
V.I. Tikhon
Keyword(s):  
Internal Control ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Pension System ◽  
Pension Funds ◽  
Pension Insurance ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
System A ◽  
The Individual ◽  
State Pension ◽  
State Pension Funds

The crisis in the field of social security of the population occurred in the process of transformation of economic relations, and, first of all, in the pension system. A reform of the pension system has been implementing for a sufficient period of time, in order to overcome the negative phenomena. Non-state pension funds (further NPFs) have been severely criticized by the Ministry of Health and Social Development to address the mandatory pension insurance system. Private organizations ineffectively manage the pension savings of citizens, and there is also a place for - the legalization of criminal proceeds, the ministry believes, which can be confirmed by the data published by the Bank of Russia on the revocation of licenses from a number of NPFs[1].The legalization of criminal proceeds is by itself a very negative phenomenon, which adversely affects the individual organization, the economy as a whole and social life, exerting a detrimental effect on the economic and national security of society and the state. Operations, to some extent related to the legalization of criminal proceeds, significantly increase the risk of loss of reputation for non-state pension funds. As a result, these monetary resources fall into the global financial system, and acquire the ability to undermine the national currency and the economies of individual countries, thus creating a threat to both national and international security. Keywords: Legalization of criminal proceeds, private pension funds, risk-oriented approach, internal control.

scholarly journals THEORETICAL BASIS FOR THE FORMATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetiana Busarieva
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Capital Mobility ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Routine Work ◽  
Holistic Concept ◽  
Radical Reduction

In the last decade of the twentieth century there was a paradigm shift in social development. The factor of human progress has become a condition, goal and driving force of development. The main problem in the study of economic growth factors has shifted from statistical analysis of quantitative variables to qualitative analysis. In this regard, the concept of "knowledge economy" has become widespread and is a set of economic relations based on the integration of scientific, industrial and educational components. The modern economy is in a new qualitative state, associated with changes in economic conditions caused by: the introduction of new, high levels of technology in production, expanding information space, capital mobility, increased importance of creative, creative work, the growing role of theoretical knowledge. The type of economy in which knowledge and information become the main factors of production can be defined as the knowledge economy. In theoretical and practical aspects, as a holistic concept, the knowledge economy is developing dynamically and, depending on changes in political and economic processes, acquires certain features and characteristics. It should be noted that the elements of the knowledge economy are historically present in all socio-economic formations and civilizations, but only in the context of globalization, they are most pronounced. Knowledge can become the main driving force of social production only in the conditions of radical reduction of the role of physical and routine work, simultaneous development and use of mental activity, mass informatization and intellectualization of social life, which is characteristic of the modern stage of human economic system. The human brain as a generator, accumulator and transformer of knowledge is the main object of cognitive technologies and the subject of study of interdisciplinary neuroscience. At the beginning of the XXI century, the process of forming a knowledge economy continues, in which development and success are determined not by material resources, but by the possession of the greatest amount of valuable information and the ability to process it quickly. At the same time, such factors and criteria for the functioning of past formations as food, natural and human resources are gaining weight again in the world economy, forming a qualitatively new character of economic and social relations.

HISTORY AS A PROBLEM

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-19
Author(s):  
Leonid B. Alaev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Economic Factor ◽  
Great Role ◽  
Formation Theory ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Indexes

This paper continues the discussion started with the review by a group of colleagues from the Southern Federal University [Volchik, Lyubsky, Makarenko, Petrov, 2019] of Leonid B. Alaev’s monograph “Issues of the History of the Orient” [Alaev, 2019] and presents author’s commentary to the review of said book by another group of teachers from the same University [Drach, Kirillov, 2020]. G. V. Drach and A. A. Kirillov doubt many author’s statements, and first of all, the critical estimation of the contemporary condition of theoretical approaches to the study of history, particularly — the degree of obsoleteness of Marxian methodology. The authors of the review do not take into consideration the fact, that recent research undermine the so- called formation theory, and propose nothing in its stead. Attempts to use other approaches (for instance, civilizational) to the World history, have produced no significant results. Meanwhile, the search for a “golden key”, for a factor capable to explain everything, proceeds. In Russian situation such a “golden key” is most often seen in an economic factor and belittling the importance of spirituality, the status of morality and formation of personality. There are no doubts, that economic relations play great role in social life, that economic indexes are very important in studying any society, but one should admit that the economic situation does not determine everything, for instance, cultural conditions, political structure and so on. The degree of hostility towards ‘bourgeois’ scholars, as compared to the Soviet times, decreased significantly, but did not vanish completely, being transmuted from ideological into geopolitical opposition. It is an obstacle on the way to candid discussion. It is necessary to separate problems, which can be discussed on the basis of common principles of strive for truth, from the views, determined by political and ideological positions of scholars, which are not disputable because the same terms and events are understood differently.

scholarly journals Clouded judgments? Aesthetics, morality and everyday life in early 21st century culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giselinde Kuipers ◽  
Thomas Franssen ◽  
Sylvia Holla
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Economic Relations

This special issue investigates the relationship between aesthetics and morality. How do the good and the beautiful, the bad and the ugly, happen in everyday life? How do these ‘orders of worth’ interact? Do they reinforce each other? What happens when they contradict one another? Does one order typically trump the other? Five contributions, from Israel, Italy and the Netherlands, scrutinize different sites where both aesthetics – the continuum of evaluations from beautiful to ugly – and morality – evaluations about good and evil, right and wrong – have a strong presence. The contributions zoom in on everyday cultural consumption, where people create, seek out and discuss ‘good’ food, clothing, films and architecture, and professional situations where people look for ‘good’ jobs, want to work in ‘good’ work spaces and aim to be a ‘good’ worker. Integrating insights from cultural studies, sociology, valuation studies and science and technology studies, this special issue shows, first, how judgments of aesthetic and moral value are central to the fabric of social life – from the smallest level of everyday interactions to the large scale of economic relations and power im/balances. Second, these valuations often clash, blend and blur. This blurring and blending enables the drawing of social boundaries, the consolidation of identities and the shaping of selves. But it also allows for seduction, manipulation and obfuscation of power dynamics. Third, the contributions show that in contemporary post-Fordist, meritocratic consumer societies, beauty and morality are increasingly entangled with economic and political logics, leading to new social struggles and new forms of alienation and exploitation.

scholarly journals The role of the Tatar educational elite in the formation of national socio-political thought at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries (modern research aspects)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SPE2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Albina R. Akhmetova ◽  
Lilia Rifkhatovna Galimzyanova ◽  
Lyudmila Sergeevna Timofeeva
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Social Factor ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
The Social

At the end of the 20th century, changes took place in the world that forced politicians and scientists to rethink many seemingly established postulates about the laws of social life and about the ways of development of human civilization. The modern development of the social movement among the Tatars of Russia, and especially the national processes in Tatarstan largely repeat the trends in the development of the nation in the pre-Soviet period. The main role in the social movement of nations is played by the activities of the elite aimed at creating political, educational and cultural institutions. The turning point in the history of the Tatar people should be considered the end of the 19th - the beginning of the 20th century. The Tatar ideology was created during the period of rapid development of bourgeois socio-economic relations (especially noticeable among the Tatars of the Volga-Ural region) and the rise of national culture. However, until recently, the sources and works of authors of different times have not been fully studied, although they contain data on the processes of formation of the Tatar social factor and the Tatar nation itself in the context of the development of the Russian community.

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