Is there a regional culture in Russia? Opportunities of using a sociocultural approach in economics

2020 ◽  
pp. 108-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. A. Bryzgalin ◽  
Е. N. Nikishina
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Regional Culture ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Geographical Patterns ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Sociocultural Approach ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Russian Universities

The paper investigates cross-cultural differences across Russian regions using the methodology of G. Hofstede. First, it discusses the most common approaches in measuring culture and the application of the Hofstede methodology in subnational studies. It identifies the critical issues in measuring culture at the regional level and suggests several strategies to address them. Secondly, the paper introduces subregional data on individualism and uncertainty avoidance using a survey of students across 27 Russian universities. The data allow to establish geographical patterns of individualism in Russia. It is demonstrated that collectivism is most prevalent in the Volga region, while individualism characteristic becomes stronger towards the Far East. The findings are robust to the inclusion of various controls and different specifications of the regression model. Finally, the paper provides a discussion about the potential of applying the sociocultural approach in economics.

scholarly journals A cross-cultural perspective on musealization: the museum’s reception by China and Japan in the second half of the nineteenth century

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang Wan-Chen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Far East ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Preservation ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
The West ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The World ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
Chinese Intellectuals

Historically museums emerged in the West and were subsequently taken up by people in other regions of the world, including the Far East, where the museum was adopted with alacrity by Japanese and Chinese intellectuals. This article explores how China and Japan imagined museums when they first encountered them in the West. It sketches how intellectuals in these two nations began to conduct ‘musealization’, and suggests that the museum in China and Japan was a product of appropriation of Western formats that was, however, deeply influenced by traditional attitudes to cultural preservation and display.

scholarly journals Population dynamics of Russian regions and its components in 1959–2017

POPULATION ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-20
Author(s):  
Oleg Rybakovsky ◽  
Olga Tayunova
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Natural Population ◽  
Far East ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Demographic Development ◽  
Demographic Dynamics ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Post War ◽  
Regions Of Russia

The article deals with the demographic dynamics of the regions of Russia during the post-war Soviet period since 1959, and in the post-Soviet period of 1991–2017. It identifies the basic factors of demographic development of the country’s regions in these two historical periods. There is presented the grouping p of regions by the level of demographic dynamics and the ratio of two main components — reproduction and migration, are highlighted the leaders of demographic growth and problem regions. The authors show the dynamics of geopolitically significant territories of Russia, primarily in the Far East. They stress that in the post-war period, up to the collapse of the USSR, the demographic development of the majority of Russian regions was provided mainly at the expense of inner resources, i. e. due to natural population growth. The same is true for geopolitically significant outlying territories of the Far East, Siberia and the European North, where in 1970–1990 almost 7/8 of the total population growth was formed due to natural population growth and only 1/8 — due to migration from other regions of Russia, as well as from the former republics of the USSR. There is made a conclusion that to change radically the demographic situation in the Far East “de facto” only with immigration of compatriots, as is being done now, is not possible. To solve this problem, it’s necessary to use all demographic «leverage» — fertility, interregional migration, immigration of both compatriots and (selectively) representatives of the titular peoples of the former Soviet republics, as well as temporary (labor and educational) migration as a potential of permanent migration.

Mechanisms equalization of the living standards the population of the Far East and Siberia

2021 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-59
Author(s):  
A. A. Pakhomov ◽  
◽  
M. P. Solomonov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
The State ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Price Increases ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Northern Regions ◽  
Global World

The article sets out a mechanisms equalization of the living standards the population of the Far East and Siberia regions in comparison with the others Russian regions. The authors give examples of climatic and geographical northern price increases. They propose administrative measures to compensate the state budget for the northern increase in the price of products from the northern regions. These measures will lead to the competitiveness of Northern enterprises in the markets of Russia and the global world.

Lexicographic regionalistics: experience and prospects

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
С.А. Журавлев
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
National Language ◽  
First Century ◽  
Current Direction ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Central Russia ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Professional Interest ◽  
The Moment

В статье рассматривается значение лексикографии в условиях современной парадигмы постструктуралистского гуманитарного знания. Осмысление языковой ситуации ХХI в. показывает, что внимание лингвистов постепенно меняет фокус с нормативного языка до общенационального языка в различных, в том числе субстандартных его формах. Автор указывает на трансформацию соотношения в языке явлений диалекта и региолекта. Актуальным видится направление лингвистической регионалистики, в рамках которого происходит накопление и изучение сведений о лингво- и этнокультурном колорите ситуации в российских регионах. В начале нового столетия в России стали выходить словари, ориентированные на феномен локального языка и фиксацию живых локализмов. На настоящий момент существуют лексикографические источники, которые представляют сведения о региолектах Центральной России, Поволжья, Урала, Сибири и Дальнего Востока. Отмечается рост профессионального и непрофессионального интереса к лингвокультуре регионов страны, указывается перспектива развития региональных словарей в электронном виде. The article examines the importance of lexicography in the context of the modern paradigm of post-structuralist humanities. Understanding the language situation of the twenty-first century shows that the attention of linguists gradually changes the focus from the normative language to the national language in various, including sub-standard, forms. The transformation of the relation in the language of the phenomena of dialect and regiolect is indicated. The current direction of linguistic regionalism is the accumulation and study of information about the linguistic and ethno-cultural color of the situation in the Russian regions. At the beginning of the new century, dictionaries focused on the phenomenon of local language and the fixation of living localisms began to appear in Russia. At the moment, there are lexicographic sources that provide information about the regiolects of Central Russia, the Volga region, the Urals, Siberia and the Far East. The growth of professional and non-professional interest in the linguistic culture of the country's regions is noted, and the prospects for the development of regional dictionaries in electronic form are indicated.

Active imagination, extraversion, cross-culture: Guan Yin and Chinese divination

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-288
Author(s):  
Marta Tibaldi
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Women ◽  
Far East ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Active Imagination ◽  
Cross Culture ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Real Presence ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The One

In the Far East, Guan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy, is the one who "listens to the cries of the world". Depicted by gigantic white statues, she is the feminine personification of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara and represents an archetypal figure dear to Chinese women and men. In Hong Kong and in Taipei, Taiwan, she is consulted by throwing two moon blocks or ritual sticks according to the rules of Chinese divination. The goddess is a real presence who acts in a real way: when questioned, she answers, defying a synchronistic and extraverted field of knowledge and meaning. The author highlights the importance of approaching in a cross-cultural, sensitive way, such a slippery cultural phenomenon as the use of divination in that part of China, investigating a possible parallelism between this form of dialogue with the goddess Guan Yin and the Jungian method of active imagination. Developing a cross-cultural sensibility towards Chinese divinatory practices as Chinese clients do in their country, without either prejudicially declaring them superstition or considering them as a form of magic, can have transformative effects both on Eastern and Western imagery. In the case of Chinese people, this sensibility develops the ability to examine, psychologically, a phenomenon whose deeper meaning often remains unconscious. In the case of Westerners, this sensibility creates an experience of active imagination in extraverted form. In both cases, when approached from a Jungian perspective, the Chinese divinatory practice leads to experiencing the transformative reality of the extraverted and synchronistic imaginal action.

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