Human and North: On the Issue of Social-Cultural and Medical and Biological Sources of Viability

Abstract

The aim of the work is a methodological justification of the interdisciplinary scientific research conducted by the authors on the phenomenon of human resilience in the extreme living conditions and activities in the Arctic region of the Russian Federation from the perspective of a sociologist, doctor and historian. The specifics of the author's project is to find an answer to the question about the sources of viability of the indigenous population of the Arctic territories based on historical and sociocultural data of people's way of life in extreme climatic conditions and objective reflection in medical genetic research. The authors note that modern medical science is mainly focused on studying the negative effects of a person's stay in the Arctic, as well as on the socio-medical analysis of deviations that arise among small indigenous peoples when changing climate and lifestyle. The authors conclude that the indigenous population of the Arctic has accumulated sufficient sociocultural experience and has a genetic originality drawn up in previous eras, which should be the object of an interdisciplinary study. The formulated idea was supported by the RFBR grant. This article makes an attempt to present the author's research concept to the scientific community.

Vital Capacity And Human Securityas Conceptual Categories

“…The study is of a research-analytical nature and is aimed at identifying determinants that reflect the relationship of human security and vital capacity at the level of cognitive and sociocultural components of these concepts. The articles of modern authors on the consideration of vital capacity (Chruzik, 2020;Lavrusheva, 2020;Mitrofanova, 2018;Vorob'eva & Troshina, 2019;Zakernichnaya, 2016, etc. ) and the description of the concept of human security, human development (Astashin, 2008;Bokeriya, 2017;Busumtwi-Sam, 2008;Chattu, Knight, Kevany, & Sehovic, 2019;Greenfield, 2018;Jaskulowski, 2017;Miteva, 2010;Puyenbroeck & Rogge, 2018;Su-ming, 2019, etc.…”