Экспертное мнение о российских профессионалах: тенденции, парадоксы, проблемы

Abstract

The article based on interviews with 15 experts who are representatives of the Russian scientific community. The situation is analyzed, that has developed in Russia with such a category of workers as professionals. The latter are specialists with a high educational level, working in areas organically related to creative mental work. The growing social role of this category of workers in the modern world is based on the possession of human capital. This is the most important resource of the new economy. Such aspects of the topic as the status of professionals as a social group, the specifics of the human capital of Russian professionals and the features of the capitalization of their personal characteristics, as well as their interest in increasing their human capital, are considered. The theme of internal and external migration of professionals is highlighted as a motive for more successful capitalization of personal potential. The article concludes with a study of the problem of the prospects for the evolution of Russian professionals. As experts state, this social group is still underformed, which is largely due to Russian specifics, in which social capital is often a more significant factor than human capital. In general, domestic professionals are only at the initial stage of objective institutionalization and subjective articulation as a full-fledged social class.