Searching for a New Way of Thinking about Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7299174 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vyacheslav Bobkov (0000-0001-7364-5297), Nikolay Vyacheslavovich Bobkov |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Social Quality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-0344 • E-ISSN: 1757-0352 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ijsq.2017.070106 |
| OpenAlex | W2777398891 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
The currently accepted global wisdom holds that the most important and decisive challenge for humankind is to reach sustainable circumstances; societal, geophysical, and biophysical. However, there is little readiness to go beyond the inherited fundamental assumptions of a “modern industrial capitalist market society.” This is oriented on the commodification and marketization of natural and cultural resources for making profit. Seen from a Russian perspective, this article argues that this approach causes a destruction of sustainable living conditions. The social quality approach, the Russian interpretation of quality of life approach, and the noosphere paradigm of global societal development offer space for considerations that questions the dominant socioeconomic and financial societal practices not only on the phenomenological level. Instead, the authors name gnoseological, ontological, and axiological prerequisites of sustainable global societal development. This will contribute to the wider and diverse debates on what can be called people’s humanistic socialism
China · Commodification · Communism · Economics · Economy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Marketization · Political science · Social science · Socialism · Sociology · Sustainable development · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Law · Russia and Soviet political economy · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
Quality of Life
Social Quality Theory
The Decent Society
The Possibility of Naturalism
Humanosphere Potentiality Index
Living Well Rather Than Living Better
Social Quality and Welfare System Sustainability
The Individual and the Social
Rethinking the Human and the Social
The Human and the Social
Analyzing Societal Circumstances, Sustainability and Sustainable Urban Development
A Realist Theory of Science
Mapping Social Quality Clusters and Its Implications
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |