Reproduction Of Capital Research Articles

The influence of the cultural capital transformation of Wushu Intangible Cultural Heritage on status acquisition: the case of Sichuan Province

ABSTRACT The promulgation and implementation of a protection system for Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) has provided a new legal path for transforming cultural capital and solidifying the modern values of Chinese folk martial arts. However, different folk martial arts have formed differentiated evaluations and social statuses by transmitting and reproducing cultural capital across generations. Through the field investigation of Sichuan Wushu Intangible Cultural Heritage (WICH) projects, this study discusses the relationship between the status and influence of WICH and the operation of cultural capital. The findings demonstrate that the WICH inheritance group continues to pass down and transform embodied cultural capital through the inheritance relationship network while constructing and expanding the project’s objective cultural capital. In doing so, they maintain and strengthen the project’s established reputation and social status. Therefore, cultural capital and the path of capital reproduction of folk martial arts formed in the traditional inheritance field affect the acquisition of WICH status. A comprehensive clarification of the positive role of cultural capital in the acquisition of WICH status can provide a reference for the modern transformation and continuation of the value system of WICH projects at different levels.

Política social de Assistência Social e a garantia de direitos sociais: entre ambiguidades e contradições

The field of Social Policies, with special attention to Social Assistance, continues to be a subject of investigation in the peripheral areas of capitalist centers. This study aims to explore the contradictions present in the interaction between social assistance policies and social rights. To this end, it adopts an approach that conceives of social policy as a process influenced by the historical conditions of capitalism and class struggles. It highlights the determining role of the state and capitalism in the formulation of social policies and their incorporation into the realm of social rights, especially in the Brazilian context, where only since the 1988 Federal Constitution has social assistance become a state policy, assuming responsibility for guaranteeing and providing social rights and social protection. The aim of the article is to problematize the perspective of rights in the Brazilian capitalist state and in the National Social Assistance Policy (PNAS), proposing an analysis of a materialist-historical-dialectical nature. The text adopts the structure of a theoretical essay, beginning with a reflection on the capitalist state and social policies, and then addressing the interrelationship between the state, law and social policies, characterized by contradictions inherent to the preservation and perpetuation of capitalism. The conclusion is that the reasons for the state's difficulty in guaranteeing social rights lie in the fact that the relationship between the state, law and social policies is marked by contradictions, since social assistance seeks to guarantee rights in the legal system, which, in turn, are also geared towards the maintenance and reproduction of capitalism.

Анализ и оценка уровня воспроизводства человеческого капитала на региональном уровне

The relevance of this study is due to the following circumstances. Successful human capital management is the basis for solving strategic tasks of regional development, since it is the availability of qualified and motivated personnel necessary for successful professional activity that ensures the effective development of the region's economy. It is also known that investments aimed at improving public health have a significant impact on the dynamics of changes in the gross regional product. In this regard, it seems necessary to assess the state of the processes of reproduction of human capital in the region on the example of such a subject of the Russian Federation as the Republic of Adygea. The analysis shows that the Republic of Adygea implements a regional policy aimed at ensuring the expanded reproduction of the territory's human capital. If there are a number of certain problems, it can be argued that it allows to ensure that the trained specialists meet the requirements imposed on them in the regional labor market.

Demographic Development of Russia within the Boundaries of Human Capital Theory: Problems and Solutions

The article outlines the role of the demographic situation in ensuring the development of the socio-economic system of the country. In the process of empirical research, the dynamics of the list of indicators characterizing the demographic situation in Russia is considered. The calculation of the absolute indicator of the population is presented, which allows to reveal of the numerical losses of human capital. The fact that the reduction of the country’s population was due to the population of rural areas was established. It is also noted that there was a constant increase in the number of population over working age, as well as a decrease in the working-age population. The decrease in the existing volumes of human capital has led to certain economic losses expressed in the form of lost GDP, which the socio-economic system has incurred. In the context of the above trends, the preservation of the existing human capital, which can be assessed on the basis of the dynamics of indicators: life expectancy and the number of marriages and divorces, becomes a priority. The processes of human capital reproduction represent one of the important directions of demographic development in Russia. The authors determined that these processes have a negatively directed tendency to change. This problem is considered from the position of the functioning of the family institution and the dynamics of the divorce process. An analytical study of statistical data allowed us to conclude that the intensity of marriages in Russia during ten years was higher than the intensity of divorces. The calculated value of the coefficient of preservation of family relations indicates an increase in the probability of reproduction of human capital. The authors calculated the numerical value of reserve human capital in the form of the volume of potential labor force, which can provide an additional volume of GDP.

Integration of Universities and Employers – Potential in Building Social Capital

The article analyzes the main directions of integration of universities and employers, considered in the context of formation of social capital of participants of educational relations. The empirical basis of the work was formed by: 1) data on self-evaluation for 2023 of four leading universities of the Omsk region, differing in the structure of educational programs and industry focus (OmSTU, OmSU, OmGUPS, SibADI); 2) the results of questionnaire survey of the main participants of the educational process: students and employers of these universities; 3) data from the survey of university youth within the framework of the Federal project “Runway 2023” (2,139 students of these universities). The novelty of the study lies in the substantiation of the practices of integration of universities and employers that have developed in the educational environment as ways of reproducing social capital for the key participants of educational relations. These practices contribute to the establishment of trust between the participants of educational relations; form communications that become resources for obtaining benefits for the parties involved in cooperation; help students to master the corporate norms and rules of employers; reduce the level of transaction costs in employment, etc. It has been established that the main forms of integration of universities and their partners are realized mainly to achieve a high level of postgraduate employment of graduates, which in practice are associated with the reproduction of social capital of both open and closed type. Based on the analyzed sources, the following hypotheses were confirmed: firstly, representatives of employers who have experience of cooperation with universities are more likely to prefer to use and develop such formats of integration with educational organizations that are focused on solving the problems of youth employment, i.e. they use the accumulated social capital to build up the human capital of their organizations; secondly, the level of students’ readiness to recommend an educational organization for admission and graduation. The authors show promising directions of research on the subject of the article: 1) the establishment of system-wide and industry barriers that impede the development of bridging social capital for the production of an innovative product; 2) a comprehensive analysis of bridging social capital, which reflects the quality of communication and cooperation in the context of personal responsibility and competencies of officials of both participants in the educational process.

Habitus in elite public high schools: A case study from the perspectives of shareholders

This case study employs a Bourdieusian theoretical framework to analyze the relationship between an individual’s habitus and their perceptions about the value of education as described by students, teachers, and principals from two elite public high schools in Aydin, Turkey. The study argues that, as a part of school climate, the elite schools contribute to the reproduction of cultural capital that funds elite student habitus. Study results show that all the participants have positive perceptions about their schools, and all participants' habitus is supported by and reflective of the existing habitus of their school. This situation is sometimes a preference for elitism, but sometimes it is experienced as an obligation. The results confirm prior studies and related literature on the interrelationship between schooling, student habitus, and socio-economic reproduction.

Trans*agrarian Marxisms?

This article recasts agrarian studies’ concerns with nature, productivity, and subjectivity through the provocations raised by transgender Marxism. Transgender Marxism has interrogated how normative gender, sexuality, and racial dynamics are inseparable from the material and reproductive matrices required for capital. Critical agrarian studies has a long history of carefully tracing out the political economy of agrarian capitalism and resistance to it. Engaging with the unruly materialisms of transgender Marxism would further the work of critical agrarian studies, particularly in regard to the ways gender and sexuality are taken up in the field. The project of transgender Marxism offers a scathing critique of rights-based recognition, hetero- and homonormativity, apoliticized science, and the ways in which the biological family figures at the heart of capitalist reproduction. Such questions have been taken up in small corners of queer and feminist critical agrarian studies, particularly those rooted in the United States, but transgender Marxism offers a new opportunity to bring together the material and historical concerns of the ways agrarian capitalism takes place and creates conditions for unruly forms of resistance. The article demonstrates their possible interconnectivities by exploring three themes: theories of change, the centrality of gender/sex in the agrarian, and unruly, ungrounded materialisms. While primarily a theoretical intervention, the article draws some insights from the authors’ ethnographic work in Paraguay and Colombia to ground the theoretical possibilities in place.

The Vancouver socioecological fix: indigenous real-estate development as the city’s imagination of sustainability, affordability, and reconciliation

ABSTRACT In Vancouver, the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations are constructing several large real-estate developments that will deeply impact the Nations and the city itself. Developments such as Sen̓áḵw, Heather Lands, and Jericho Lands envision the construction of thousands of new apartments that will yield billions of Canadian dollars in profits from the Vancouver housing market. This paper is concerned with the enabling conditions for such developments found within the city of Vancouver’s planning policies and underlying geographical imaginations. Through the application of the “socioecological fix”, the paper describes how Vancouver’s planning policies aim at fixing problems of sustainability, housing affordability, and reconciliation based on specific geographical imaginations. This results in the conceptualization of reconciliation as the profit-oriented construction of green and affordable real-estate. In light of scholarship that highlights the intertwined nature of colonialism and capitalism, the paper raises the predicament that the reconciliatory approach conceptualized in city strategies and actively pursued by the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh is envisioning reconciliation as the reproduction of Vancouver real-estate capitalism. How should scholarship contend with reconciliatory approaches that are both reproductive of settler-colonial capitalism, while also offering reconciliation in a concrete form?

Methodological Approaches to Constructing Human Capital Index: Regional Dimension

The paper analyses available foreign and domestic expertise in the treatment and methods for measuring human capital. The authors identify weaknesses of a common approach to measuring human capital based on international statistical standards not adapted to national features of information and statistical support for regional analysis in the face of prominent interregional differences in socio-economic development.A methodological approach to assessing human capital is substantiated using an integral indicator that combines subindices that reflect the accumulation and reproduction of human capital. Guided by this approach and statistics on the demographic situation, upgrading knowledge, skills and strengthening the public health, including that of the working population, and based on actual data for the regions of Russia (for the year 2020), a unified summary indicator of human capital for the constituent entities of the Russian Federation was calculated and the regions were ranked by a level of human capital development.According to the authors, the developed methodological approaches to measuring the human capital index shall make it possible to take more specific action on implementing the Programme for Socio-economic Development as applied to individual Russian regions

The captivity of Land and Labor: Neoextractivist policy and planning in São Luís, Maranhão

After decades of repeated socio-environmental conflicts in the port region of São Luís, Maranhão, triggered by the appropriation of land from traditional communities, the State and capital have used planning for changes in land use and occupation, legitimizing the land expansion and unifying different business interests. Understanding the process as the result of neoextractivist strategies of the local economic enclave, this article analyzes the relations between port and municipal planning which, based on the developmentalist discourse, have incorporated the demands of real estate capital in a new movement of “accumulation by spoliation” for the submission of Land and Labor to the captivity of capitalist reproduction.

Music, Phones and Bank Loans

This article explores the making of two branded Spotify playlists to critique the concept of ‘affective labor.’ Over the last few decades, scholars have argued that social media users and creative industries workers alike are engaged in a new type of labor, affective labor, which generates economic value for companies. The article challenges this framing. Drawing on Marxist concepts of productive and unproductive labor, in addition to feminist social reproduction theory, it details playlists made for Motorola phones and Itaú bank by paid contractors. The article situates the role of these playlists, as part of advertising campaigns, within the broader circuits of capital, showing how both paid and unpaid playlisting are unproductive labor, and therefore do not produce surplus value. The playlists do, however, assist in the overall reproduction of capitalism, particularly through the commodification of labor power for the paid lists. The article argues that characterizing musical production involving affect, especially online, as ‘affective labor’ hampers our ability to understand affect within the production and reproduction of capitalist social relations. It contends that a key political question of affect is not only the production of subjectivities, but the conversion of affectively dense, social values into commodified labor controlled by capital. Affective politics is when affects are literally put to work.

A COMPELLING SYMBIOSIS BETWEEN CAPITAL, TERRITORY AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

This article consists of an integrative review aimed at elucidating the relationship between territory, capital and regional development. The relationship that lies at the heart of these three variables has been little analyzed in the literature, requiring more methodically systematized studies that can shed light on this symbiosis. In order to produce this text, a state-of-the-art review was carried out, collecting data from three sources and selecting 12 articles published between 2017 and 2022. It was prepared using well-defined stages, which helped to synthesize the ideas. The results showed that regional development is intrinsically related to the development of capital and associated with the territory, which is defined in a material or immaterial way and is closely aligned with the conditions of capitalist reproduction, whose dynamism and performance directly impact on the intensity of regional development.

State financial regulation of demographic processes in Russia: problems and solutions

The gradual deterioration problem of the demographic balance in developed countries is obvious, and its relevance is increasing every year. Russia, as well as most developed countries, has completed the demographic transition and is faced with the typical consequences of this event: a moderate increase in life expectancy, aging of the population, a steady natural decline in the population, a shortage of qualified personnel in the labor market, etc. The article analyzes various financial regulation aspects of demographic dynamics in the Russian Federation, considering the consequences of the demographic transition and the new realities in which the country found itself in 2022. The study purpose is to assess possible financial, administrative, migration and combined strategies to improve the demographic balance in Russia by changing the reproductive behavior patterns of the modern family. The research is based on the thesis that the modern demographic policy of Russia is aimed more at combating poverty than at reproducing high-quality human capital. The strengths and weaknesses of state regulation various financial strategies of birth rate processes are analyzed, and it is concluded that their application is quite expensive for the state and contains risks of falling into the trap of overloading social security systems for a transitional period in case of success of state policy. An alternative version of demographic policy is also analyzed, in which the state follows the path of industrial human cloning and centralized reproduction of human capital.

Mechanisms for achieving decent wage in the Russian economy

The article analyzes the new rules for setting minimum wage, introduced in 2020 in Russia in terms of how they contribute to achieving the decent wage in accordance with the current norms of international and Russian labour law. Minimum wage, while remaining a popular tool for regulating the wage floor, has undergone radical changes in 2020, which affected the basis for its calculation, the level and the frequency of its revision, as well as data sources. The completion of the first year cycles of the new rules for calculating the minimum wage and the stress test of 2022–2023 make it possible to assess the practice of their implementation. We assess the observed and projected effects of the new minimum wage methodology in relation to the norms of international documents (such as the Convention concerning the Minimum Wage of the International Labor Organization, the European Social Charter, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, as well as the Charter of Social Rights and Guarantees of Citizens of Independent States). The article gives special attention to the milestones in the development of legislative regulation of the minimum wage in modern Russia. Basing on positive economic analysis, we conclude that the changes in the rules for calculating the minimum wage have reduced its sensitivity to inflation and broken the link with the costs necessary to maintain the reproduction of human capital of the employee and her household. In this research, we have confirmed the hypothesis that the new rules for calculating the minimum wage are poorly favorable to the implementation of decent work as one of the declared national development goals of the country for the period up to 2030. We propose alternatives to reform the minimum wage in the direction of promoting the growth of real incomes of workers and members of their households. We stress the need to establish a stronger dialogue between the state and other stakeholders when developing effective solutions to achieve decent wages in terms of transformation of economy.

Стоимостная оценка и направления развития человеческого капитала Республики Беларусь

Implementation of the sustainable development model requires a revision of traditional ap-proaches to the concept and valuation of human capital, as its reproduction determines the wealth of a country. Human capital is the basis for the sustainable development of the Republic of Belarus: its preservation and growth affect investments related to the reproduction of capital. Sources of such investments include the net income of the population, funds of organisations and government bodies. The study aims to develop theoretical and methodological foundations for the valuation of human capital it order to determine suitable investment areas. The concepts “human capital” and “investment in human capital” were analysed to identify investment subjects and objects at different levels of the economy. The proposed method for the valuation of human capital relies on the theory of reproduction rent and considers the investment component as a driving factor of its regional and national development. To assess the reproduction of human capital, the study presented a discount indicator as the inverse of the average life expectancy of the population, indirectly expressing its level and quality of life. Data on the socio-economic development of regions of Belarus were examined. Testing of the proposed approach demonstrated that the production of human capital is constant and increases over time. Its sustainable reproduction is affected by the net income of the population and public investments in the social sphere, including education and healthcare. To strengthen human capital, business entities are recommended to invest in improving professional qualifications of employees, as well as their working conditions. The obtained results can be used to develop and implement socio-economic policy at the regional level.

ІНТЕЛЕКТУАЛЬНИЙ КАПІТАЛ ЯК ЧИННИК ЗРОСТАННЯ ІННОВАЦІЙНОГО ПОТЕНЦІАЛУ РЕГІОНУ

The paper examines the theoretical foundations of the concept of "intellectual capital" and reveals its relationship with the innovative development of the region. It was determined that a significant prerequisite for Ukraine's entry into the world economic space is the formation of an effective innovation model that must meet modern global requirements and serve as an important basis for reproducing all processes of the country's economic development. The main factors of innovative development of the regional economy are determined. A terminological approach to defining the concept of "intellectual capital" is given. A semantic analysis of the essence of the concept of "intellectual capital" was carried out and those that most deeply highlight the categorical aspects of this concept were highlighted. It was determined that intellectual capital is a complex concept that characterizes intellectual work, ensures the creation of new technologies and innovations in society, as well as the growth of the general education level of the regions. It is noted that the formation and implementation of intellectual capital at enterprises requires complex efforts of the state to overcome the technological and organizational backwardness of most regions. The components of intellectual capital are given and their contribution to regional development is determined. It was determined that the formation and implementation of all components of intellectual capital in the regional development forms a new progressive level of technology development, improvement of the knowledge economy and the creation of intellectual products in the region. The measures contributing to the sustainable reproduction of the intellectual capital of the country's regions are specified. It has been proven that innovative activity is one of the main components of both regional development and the development of the country in general, and intellectual capital is a significant driver of technological progress and the introduction of intellectual products in the region. Taking into account the dependence of the innovative activity of the regions on intellectual capital, their relationship between each other and the results of the activity are determined.

МЕЖДИСЦИПЛИНАРНЫЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ В ВУЗАХ КАК ФАКТОР РАЗВИТИЯ ЭКОСИСТЕМЫ ВОСПРОИЗВОДСТВА ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСКОГО КАПИТАЛА

This article examines the role of the higher education system in the context of the transition to a knowledge economy. It is shown that universities are becoming key participants in innovation ecosystems and ecosystems for the reproduction of human capital. This approach contributes to the innovative development of regions, strengthening their competitiveness and the formation of human capital. The study proposed a hypothesis that the organization of interdisciplinary research in universities can contribute to innovative development and the growth of human capital. It was established that there is a connection between the number of interdisciplinary projects in universities and their positions in the ranking in terms of the results of the country’s innovative development.

Development of social and labor relations in Ukraine: opportunities for achieving sustainable development goals

The article analyzes the essence of social and labor relations (SLR) in the current socioeconomic environment, where the roles of all market actors are being reassessed. The author proposes to include not only traditional partners, but also stakeholders (scientific community, experts, and the public) as participants of the SLR. The author's concept assumes that the SLR, as a set of relationships, should be focused on the formation, implementation, and reproduction of human capital in the country. This approach implies the existence of a criterion of coherence of interests, i.e., participants direct their activities to achieve common goals. These goals include sustainable development goals, in particular, in the SLR area, the goals of gender equality, decent work, and economic development. The analysis of the SLR through the prism of achieving the defined sustainable development goals showed the following. Achievement of the goal of gender equality in Ukraine in the labor market (as a component of the SLR) is considered through equal opportunities for both sexes. Achieving equality is a process with a positive trend and is characterized by positive changes in reducing the gaps between the average wages of women and men. At the same time, the involvement of young women is decreasing (but there are objective reasons for this). In assessing the level of decent work, several basic indicators were identified: the prevalence of forced part-time employment; decent pay (which is assessed by the ability of wages to fulfill not only reproductive but also incentive functions), and the unemployment rate. It was found that the partners made the largest gaps in the area of remuneration, which reduces the ability to achieve sustainable development goals. The reasons for this are as follows: the focus of wages only on the function of labor reproduction and an inappropriate wage structure that does not motivate professional development, development, etc. The revealed level of forced partial employment at enterprises showed the sustainability of this process, which indicates the natural level of this phenomenon (it is noted that deviations from the main target may be caused by external socio-economic, political, or other reasons that produce uncertainty). As for the unemployment rate, its dynamics correlate with the domestic socioeconomic situation in the country and the ability of SLR participants to create jobs. According to the data obtained, it is confirmed that the achievement of the sustainable development goal by this indicator is in a state of stagnation (i.e., the situation is generally stable, but hidden risks remain).

Reforming higher Professional Education in Russia in changing Geopolitical conditions

During the period of work of Russian universities according to the rules of the Bologna system, the quality of higher education has decreased. The discrepancy between the training programs for students and the current and future needs of the labour market of specialists has aggravated. The accumulated problems became the basis for reforming higher education in Russia. Methods of induction, comparative and content analysis of the reasons for changes in the education of students in undergraduate and graduate programs from 2002 to 2020. installed. Strategic documents and practical results of the activities of universities have been studied. The analysis of official sources of information and scientific publications of domestic and foreign authors revealed problem areas in the training of specialists by Russian universities. The key role of higher education in the reproduction of human intellectual capital has been proven. Recommendations for improving the organization of the educational process and resource support for the training of students at various levels of ISCED-2011 have been formulated.

Виклики сучасного розвитку людського капіталу сільських територій України в умовах економічних трансформацій

The article is concerned with systematization of factors that hinder the development of human capital in rural areas of Ukraine and are components of the mechanism of its destruction. The factors of destruction of human capital in rural areas are: low-quality school education; poor medical care; unsatisfactory level of development of social infrastructure; monopsony of agricultural enterprises in the rural labor market; low level of development of non-agricultural species; urbanization and the growth of rural unemployment. These factors cause such challenges as low labor productivity, high potential for unemployment and marginalization, excess of mortality over birth rate, migration, low incomes and depopulation of rural areas, which, in turn, lead to the destruction of human capital in rural areas. The development of human capital in rural areas of Ukraine largely depends on social infrastructure. The revival of the village is impossible without the priority development of its social sphere, which requires comprehensive institutional and material measures. Improving the quality of educational and medical services, as well as the development of socio-cultural facilities are critically important for stable economic development and improving the well-being of the population in rural areas. The problems of implementing the strategic task of reproduction and development of human capital in rural areas are caused by the low level of innovation and technological modernization in the agrarian sector, which negatively affects labor productivity. The existing link between the development of human capital and the socioeconomic progress of rural areas emphasizes the need to create conditions for the reproduction of human capital through the development of entrepreneurship, improving the quality of labor potential and social infrastructure. Effective human capital development in rural areas requires overcoming these challenges through an integrated approach that includes innovative solutions, investment in social and productive infrastructure, and increased entrepreneurship.