Title of the article:

DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN URBAN CULTURE WITHIN THE DISCOURSE OF SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL METABOLISM` CONCEPTION

Author(s):

Valentin P. Babintsev

Galina N. Gaidukova

Zhanna A. Shapoval

Information about the author/authors

Valentin P. Babintsev — DSc in Philosophy, Professor, Belgorod State National Research University, Pobedy St., 85, 308015 Belgorod, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0112-6145. E-mail: babintsev@bsu.edu.ru

Galina N. Gaidukova — PhD in Sociology, Associate Professor, Belgorod State National Research University, Pobedy St., 85, 308015 Belgorod, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6300-9174. E-mail: g_gaidukova@bsu.edu.ru

Zhanna A. Shapoval — PhD in Sociology, Associate Professor, Belgorod State National Research University, Pobedy St., 85, 308015 Belgorod, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8069-9274. E-mail: shapoval@bsu.edu.ru

Section

Theory and history of culture

Year

2021

Volume

Vol. 60

Pages

pp. 30–41

Received

March 17, 2020

Date of publication

June 28, 2021

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2021-60-30-41

Index UDK

008

Index BBK

71+20.1

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to identify heuristic potential of socio-ecological metabolism (SEM) conception for the studying of trends in the development of modern urban culture. Modern city is considered in terms of the conception as an open socio-biotechnical system, whose changes are of a metabolic nature, so that they are carried out in four consecutive stages:  accumulation of “substances”, their transformation during the decomposition of “substances” into simple ones and simultaneous formation and consumption of complex “substances”; release of waste into environment; their subsequent transformation. Empiric basis of the work consists of the results of sociological study “Socio-cultural consequences of the formation of urbanized sociobiotechnical systems”, conducted in the cities of the Belgorod region in January 2020. The study included a questionnaire survey of the urban population using the quota sampling method (n = 500) and an expert survey (n = 30). The authors determined the range of issues urban culture development, which can be solved by applying the concept of SEM. These include: analysis of material and energy exchange in terms of city culture and environment; assessment of the impact factors of technologization and ecologization on urban culture development; study of urban cultural garbage phenomenon, which at the moment are unclaimed or potentially and de facto destructive waste products of the urban community, emerged in the socio-cultural sphere.

Keywords

city, urban environment, urbanized environment, urban culture, socio-ecological metabolism, cultural garbage, ecology, culture technologization.

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