Life strategies of sociocultural behavior of residents of the territories affected by the Chernobyl accident

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life strategies of sociocultural behavior, values, territories affected by the Chernobyl accident
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The empirical base of this sociological study was obtained in 2019 as part of the implementation of a research project on the assignment of the State program to overcome the consequences of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant for 2011–2015 and for the period until 2020 «conduct sociological monitoring of population assessments of the effectiveness of the implementation of sustainable development goals, including employment opportunities in areas affected by the Chernobyl accident (in various areas of the economy)», carried out jointly by the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Science of Belarus and Belarusian State Economic University (№ 20192156).

Abstract

In this article, based on the methodological foundations developed by the author, the life strategies of the sociocultural behavior of residents of the territories affected by the Chernobyl accident are studied. Life strategies of sociocultural behavior in modern society are pure (ideal) types of behavioral strategies of agents having different capitals and making their choice in life situations of a particular field, which is more or less sociocultural. In other words, behavioral strategies are formed and manifested in life situations in various fields, for instance economic, political, etc., each of them is more or less sociocultural. Statistical analysis of a sociological study of residents of the Chernobyl-affected territories allowed us to develop an empirical typology of residents of contaminated territories by the degree of sociocultural activity, as well as to prove that the higher sociocultural activity of respondents, more effective and diverse their labor motivation, including not only material, but also professional labor criteria, the higher efficiency of economic behavior, determined by the level of satisfaction with their work and its components.

Author Biography

  • Iryna V. Lashuk, Belarusian State Economic University, 26 Partyzanski Avenue, Minsk 220070, Belarus

    PhD (sociology), docent; associate professor at the department of economic sociology and head of the Center for Social and Humanitarian Studies, Institute of Social Science and Humanities Education

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2020-04-10

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No. 1 (2020): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology

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From the Working Table of a Sociologist

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Lashuk, I.V. 2020. Life strategies of sociocultural behavior of residents of the territories affected by the Chernobyl accident. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology. 1 (Apr. 2020), 93–101.