The Allocation Of The Boundaries Of The Russian Culture Industry

Abstract

The research task is to analyze the theoretical grounds of the developing Russian culture industry; to propose the author's classification of culture services for resource-heavy (services as a product; services unsecured with commodities) and resource-light, for active and passive. Resource-heavy services (material-intensive, energy-intensive, labor-intensive) stand in close relation to the beneficial effect on the size, amount of material costs and quality of produced labor. The author defines the culture industry, the structure and relationship of markets and sub-markets of the cultural sphere. The structure of the culture industry can be presented as a collection of sub-markets and it is possible to determine the indicators of cultural organizations' activity. The author proposes the differentiation of services into "artistic" and "creative" following the culture industry's areas of responsibility. Artistic industries belong to the area of responsibility of socio-economic relations and creative high-tech intellectual products belong to the area of responsibility of material-economic relations. The problems of the culture industry's material-economic development can be solved only upon the condition of national management of all culture industry sectors. Methodically, the study is based on the fundamental scientific works and the functioning of the cultural and creative sphere, the specifics of cultural activity, and the work on the system analysis of processes and relations in the cultural sphere.