LIFESTYLE AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING OF FREELANCERS: CROSS-REGIONAL COMPARISONS
https://doi.org/10.24290/1029-3736-2016-22-4-172-193
Abstract
The results of the cross-regional social study provide information on the relevant aspects of non-standard form of employment — freelance — obtained directly from participants involved in the social process. The authors demonstrate that the social community of freelancers differs from other communities in status, value and behavioral characteristics. At the same time, analysis of the behavioral models of freelancers shows internal differentiation of this group through different needs in material and social benefits, professional and social attitude and use of recreational, working and other social practices. Both skilled in-demand freelancers and workers with temporary freelance orders in addition to the main job coexist within the freelance community. Particular qualities of freelancers’ lifestyle reduce social wellbeing of the group and do not allow them to enter the segment of the regional middle class, keeping them in “reserve” or even on the periphery of the social structure. ”Growing points” for this group are proactivity, internal locus of control and focus on the use of their own resources for solving problems leading to citizens’ initiative development.
About the Authors
E. R. Akhmetshina
Ulyanovsk State Technical University
Russian Federation
candidate of sociology, associate professor of political science, sociology and public relations
Russian Federation
candidate of sociology, associate professor of political science, sociology and public relations
T. V. Klyueva
Ulyanovsk State Technical University
candidate of sociology, associate professor of political science, sociology and public relations
candidate of sociology, associate professor of political science, sociology and public relations
O. V. Poletaeva
Ulyanovsk State Technical University
post-graduate full-time
post-graduate full-time
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Akhmetshina E.R., Klyueva T.V., Poletaeva O.V. LIFESTYLE AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING OF FREELANCERS: CROSS-REGIONAL COMPARISONS. Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 18. Sociology and Political Science. 2016;22(4):172-193. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24290/1029-3736-2016-22-4-172-193
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