ABOUT SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION
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- 1. Institute for social development, Institute of economics (Russian academy of sciences)
Description
The paper is devoted to fundamental issues concerning the ideology of the future social progress. Its implementation has available in the first place basing on the recognized framework concept of sustainable development (SD). At the same time, this concept requires serious improvement. A realistic design of institutional changes in connection with resource and organizational/behavioral changes needed for SD is called for to realize in the line of overall social system transformation. Its adequate understanding presupposes an exhaustive study of interconnected transformations in the main social fields as system processes taking into account the influence of relatively exogenous factors (technological, demographic and climate changes).
According to the author's argument, the sustainable reproduction of the economy of a mature post-industrial type, including the green sectors, implies its stable and quiet growth, although the rapid growth of individual markets, especially innovative ones, may take place. Also, without any alternative, the formation at the global level of a multipolar political order when approving the international legal regime. At the same time, national elites will significantly replenish due to represents of high management in the innovative and high-tech sectors, while the presence of leaders of financial and trade capital will reduce. In addition, sustainable social system transformation characterizes by the equitable distribution of wealth in its broad sense (including the consumption of natural and cultural goods, education) among all people’s generations accompanied by constant increase in the quality of life, the improvement of the status pyramid and the strengthening of solidarity.
To sum up: sustainable overall social transformation in its main interconnected areas looks like an indispensable attribute of the future human progress.
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