ISSN 2078-9823 (Print), ISSN 2587-7879 (Online)

DOI: 10.24412/2078-9823.070.025.202502.139-150

УДК 101.1

Dmitrii K. Stozhko1, Konstantin P. Stozhko2, Irina A. Stihina3

1 Ural State University of Economics (Ekaterinburg, Russia), e-mail: d.k.stozhko@mail.ru

2 Ural State Agrarian University (Ekaterinburg, Russia), e-mail: kostskp@mail.ru

3 Ural State University of Economics (Ekaterinburg, Russia), e-mail: aniris.irina@yandex.ru

 

The Phenomenon of Economic Activity in the Space of Social Ontology

 

Abstract

Introduction. The aim of the study is a comparative analysis and philosophical representation of the socio-ontological space of modern economic activity. The objectives of the study are: comparative analysis of the philosophical and socio-economic content of the space of economic activity; critical analysis of the approaches to defining the essence and nature of the space of economic activity available in modern science; reconstruction of the initial theoretical and methodological matrix for modeling the space of economic activity.

Materials and Methods. The study used dialectical, axiological, institutional, socio-cultural, theoretical and methodological approaches to studying the space of economic activity, methods of analysis, synthesis, historical retrospection and hermeneutics.

Results. The article poses and considers the problem of scientific definition of the socio-ontological space of economic activity; summarizes the theoretical and methodological approaches and definitions of the space of economic activity existing in modern science; reveals the features of the socio-philosophical and theoretical and economic ideas about the space of economic activity, the importance of the value, ethical view on the formation and development of this space; A matrix approach to the philosophical reconstruction and representation of the space of economic activity is proposed, combining different levels of social ontology and key values of human economic activity.

Discussions and Conclusion. Taking into account different ideas about the space and nature of economic activity (S. N. Bulgakov, M. Weber, T. Veblen, R. Inglehart, P. Krugman, J. S. Mill, N. N. Moiseyev, M. Fudrita, etc.), as well as on the basis of the existing (modern) typology of society presented in the works of W. Beck, Z. Brzezinski, J. Baudrillard, D. Bell, G. Debord,

D. K. Galbraith, A. Camus, etc., the polymorphism of the space of modern economic activity as a characteristic of the new social reality is revealed.

Keywords: interests, needs, space of economic activity, social ontology, philosophy of economy, economy, economic activity, economic relations.

For citation: Stozhko D. K., Stozhko K. P., Stihina I. A. The Phenomenon of Economic Activity in the Space of Social Ontology. Gumanitarian: aktual’nye problemy gumanitarnoi nauki i obrazovaniia = Russian Journal of the Humanities. 2025; 25(2): 139–150. (In Russ.). DOI: 10.24412/2078-9823.070.025.202502.139-150.

 

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