SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
TITLE
Changes in Assessments of the Financial Situation, Standard of Living
and Social Well-being of the Samara Region’s Residents
Yuliya V. Vas'kina
INDEX
RAR (Research Article Report)
https://doi.org/10.52180/1999-9836_2024_20_3_10_450_460
AUTHOR
Yuliya V. Vas'kina
Samara National Research University, Samara, Russia
The Sociological Institute of the RAS – Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of
Science, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0586-839X
FOR CITATION
Vas'kina Yu.V. Changes in Assessments of the Financial Situation, Standard of Living and Social Well-being of the Samara Region’s
Residents. Uroven' zhizni naseleniya regionov Rossii=Living Standards of the Population in the Regions of Russia. 2024;20(3):450–460.
https://doi.org/10.52180/1999-9836_2024_20_3_10_450_460 (In Russ.)
ABSTRACT
The article examines changes in indicators of social well-being and living standards for the period 2019-2023 in order to identify the main trends of these changes in rapidly changing economic, social and political conditions. The research methodology is based on the author’s approach to measuring living standards and social well-being, which is implemented in a number of monitoring studies with the participation of the author of the article. The information basis of the study was composed on the results of sociological monitoring studies conducted in the Samara region, data from Russian statistics on indicators of the living standards of the population, and the results of monitoring studies by VCIOM on the living standards and social well-being of the population in Russia. According to the sociological studies with a representative sample conducted over the past 5 years in the Samara region, people in the Samara region assess their living standards as fluctuating over the past five years. During the pandemic years assessment of dynamics and consumer opportunities changed inconsistently. During the period of Special Military Operation – with some positive dynamics. All three indicators of social well-being (assessments of past, current, and future events in the lives of respondents) showed the following dynamics. We can see decreasing in share of answers that the life situation worsened in the year preceding the survey, while assessments of the current life situation improved and optimism about future changes grew. Similar trends in living standards and social well-being of the reviewed period were obtained by other researchers, whose results was presented in this article. The author of the article notes the need to conduct research based on qualitative methodology that will help explain the reasons for the growth of optimistic expectations from upcoming changes in life in the context of a more complicated economic and political situat
KEYWORDS
social well-being, living standards, dynamics of financial situation, assessment of consumer opportunities, patience index,
monitoring study, Samara region
AUTHOR BIOGRAFY
Yuliya V. Vas'kina – PhD in Sociology, Head of Department of Sociology and Cultural Studies, Researcher of Research Institute of Social
Technologies, Samara National Research University; Associate Researcher of the Sociological Institute of the RAS – Branch of the Federal
Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Science
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