SOCIAL WELL-BEING: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECT OF RESEARCH
Abstract
Theoretical and methodological aspects of studying social well-being of individual are represented in the paper. Psychological, sociological, and based on their combination, social-psychological approaches to research of social well-being are determined. Structure, empirical indexes and indicators of social well-being are defined. Main factors of forming social well-being of individual and structural components of social well-being are analyzed. Structure of social well-being includes cognitive, emotive, conative and evaluative components. Main indicators of social well-being are ‘social attitude and value orientations’, ‘internal emotional perception of life on the generally’, ‘social-demographic characteristics’.
At the basis of forming and functioning of social well-being are social, social-psychological, subject-individual, individual-demographic groups of factors. Core characteristics reflecting social well-being are social expectations and social claims of individual, individual’s assessment and self-assessment of his social status and social position, social feelings and moods.
At the basis of forming and functioning of social well-being are social, social-psychological, subject-individual, individual-demographic groups of factors. Core characteristics reflecting social well-being are social expectations and social claims of individual, individual’s assessment and self-assessment of his social status and social position, social feelings and moods.
About the Author
A. P. Solovey
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Institute of Sociology
Belarus
junior research fellow
Belarus
junior research fellow
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