Assessing the socio-cultural indicators of the population’ quality of life in the transboundary region

Abstract

Ensuring a high, decent quality of life becomes the goal of socio-economic development of countries and regions, and the formation of a system to ensure a high quality of life leads to ensuring the necessary level of social security. This becomes especially relevant in the territory of transboundary regions. This is determined by the fact that each transboundary region has its own models of ensuring the quality of life of the population, uses its own mechanisms for improving the quality of the social environment and the ecological situation, as well as its own sociocultural living conditions. This article is aimed at identifying the sociocultural conditions for ensuring the quality of life of the population in a cross-border region (using the example of the Trans-Baikal region). The integrative culture-centric approach is the leading approach to the study of socio-cultural indicators of the quality of life of the population. It is based on a set of opposing points of view related both to the subjective perception of life values and to the awareness of the reality and objectivity of the surrounding world. The use of an integrative culture-centric approach made it possible to characterize the objective aspect of the quality of life of a population in a transboundary region in the context of understanding the level of development of the socio-cultural space and the nature of its influence on the lives of citizens. At the same time, this approach made it possible to study the subjective aspect of the quality of life of the population in a transboundary region through the assessment of people’s satisfaction with the quality of their life. As part of the study, a survey of 4,700 residents of municipal areas and urban districts of the Trans-Baikal region was conducted at the age of 18 to 85 years old and indicators are highlighted. They reflect the sociocultural aspects of respondents’ satisfaction with their lives, leisure activities, and the availability of cultural institutions. The materials of the article are of practical value for the authorities and state institutions, public associations, and the world community as a whole. Since they are the basis for developing meaningful social policy measures that expand opportunities for the development of the sociocultural living space of the population, implement social programs and projects aimed at improving the quality of life in different countries, and also develop recommendations for reducing the level of dissatisfaction with the quality of life of people in different countries and regions.

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