Abstract
The article concretizes the social position of the regional agrarian elite in the system of sustainable development of rural areas on the basis of factor analysis carried out by the method of principal components. A survey of 73 leaders and chief specialists of successful agricultural organizations in the South of Russia, traditionally represented by rural areas, was carried out in October-November, 2020 using Google Forms. The data was processed in SPSS Statistics (version 21) and used the Sustainable Development Goals proclaimed by the UN in 2015 as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals were assessed on a five-point scale of significance in terms of relevance for agricultural organizations in rural areas of southern Russia. The assessments show the social position of the regional agrarian elite regarding the goal-setting in the field of sustainable development, both in rural areas and agricultural organizations. Factor analysis was carried out by the method of separation of the main components with Varimax Rotation with Kaiser Normalization. We present the models of the regional agrarian elite’s social position in the system of sustainable development of territories.
Highlights
Understanding the social position of elite groups in society is relevant in connection with the powers and the possibilities of their influence on various spheres of life
We listed 17 SDGs, the significance of which was assessed in the course of an expert survey, as a result of factor analysis performed by Rotation Method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalization (Rotation converged in 11 iterations)
All 17 SDGs were grouped into 5 factors of sustainable development of territories in the views of the regional agrarian elite from among the leaders and chief specialists of successful agricultural enterprises of the Stavropol Territory
Summary
Understanding the social position of elite groups in society is relevant in connection with the powers and the possibilities of their influence on various spheres of life. Social position can be seen as the views, ideas, attitudes and dispositions of the individual and the group regarding the conditions of their own life, implemented and defended in the reference groups. Since the “elite” groups differ in many ways, it is possible to classify the elites. The following are distinguished: political, economic and culturalinformational elites
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