Conceptual Approaches to Human Capital as the Basis for Social Trust

Abstract

The paper presents results of theoretical research about approaches to human capital as a basis for population trust in Russian regions. The main goal was to look through general approaches to form a strategy of empirical analysis of different aspects of human capital in the modern conditions of transforming reality. A basis for theoretical research were works by foreign scientists, describing economic, social and emotional dimensions of human capital and networks between notions of human and social capital, social, human and intellectual capital. Concluded that economic dimension will provide analysis of institutional conditions of formation of human capital, working out of multi-factor model of estimation of potential and security of social trust basing on use of social-economic indexes of development of regions. Sociological dimension will prove new knowledge about qualitative and quantitative characteristics of a human capital and intellectual potential of different social-demographic groups of regions of Russia, comparative analysis of a human capital and intellectual potential of population and territorial (regional) dimensions. Psychological dimension will present subjective characteristics of a human capital, including characteristics of motivation sphere, adaptive strategies, and peculiarities of social and psychological integration of population for transforming social reality.