DOI: https://doi.org/10.17072/2078-7898/2019-3-429-439

The audiovisual environment of the South-Russian cities through the eyes of the citizens: education as a social frame design space

Tatyana S. Kienko
Ph.D. in Sociology, Associate Professor
of the Department of Social Technologies

Southern Federal University,
116, Dneprovsky ln., Rostov-on-don, 344065, Russia;
e-mail: tatyanakienko@mail.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5558-2322

The audiovisual environment of the modern city is understood as a socio-cultural space in which the norms, values, social and stratification differences system largely determines what citizens notice in the surrounding space. The actual status forms a socially defined perspective and point of view, setting the common reading and interpretation of space, the allocation of «places of memory» and leisure, the priorities of improvement. The components of the status, directing the assessment of urban space, include the level of education of citizens. The purpose of this article is to present the data of empirical research on the estimates of southern Russian cities audiovisual space by citizens with different levels of education. The methodological framework of the research is based on the principles of socio-stratification approach, social constructivism, sociology of space, methodology of spatial syntax. In the course of the study, the features of the attitude to urban spaces of respondents with higher, secondary special, general secondary and incomplete education are highlighted, which can be used in the practice of urban planning. Education can be considered as one of the social frameworks that define the directions and methods of construction, evaluation and interpretation of urban space by social actors, but its impact is ambiguous, mediated by other variables, it acts as a social and cultural resource of the citizen. High level of education is associated with satisfaction with space, higher social and territorial identity; low level of education narrows opportunities for realization, development, career and life prospects. The theoretical and empirical search for other social frameworks for the construction of audiovisual urban spaces by citizens, further study of the issue, including the materials of research in other regions, is considered promising.

Keywords: city, audiovisual urban space, level of education of citizens, social construction of space.

References

Barkovskaya, A.Yu. (2013). Sotsiologicheskaya interpretatsiya kategorii «sotsial’noe prostranstvo» [Sociological interpretation of the category of «social space»]. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 7. Filosofiya [Science Journal of Volgograd State University. Philosophy]. No. 1, iss. 19, p. 49–55.

Berger, P. and Luckmann, T. (1995). Sotsial’noe konstruirovanie real’nosti: Traktat po sotsiologii znaniya [The social construction of reality: A treatise in the sociology of knowledge]. Moscow: Medium Publ., 323 p.

Bobkov, V.N. and Odintsova, E.V. (2019). Srednie klassy v sotsial’noy strukture zanyatogo naseleniya v Rossii [Middle classes in the social structure of Russia’s working population]. Vestnik Instituta sotsiologii [Bulletin of the Institute of Sociology]. No. 29, pp. 58–74. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/vis.2019.29.2.576

Bourdieu, P. (2007). Sotsiologiya sotsial’nogo prostranstva [Social Space]. Saint-Petersburg: Alteya Publ., 288 p.

Bystrova, T.Yu., Pevnaya, M.V. and Papulova, A.A. (2018). Resursy kul’turnoy regeneratsii ural’skikh gorodov v otsenkalh molodogo pokoleniya gorozhan [Resources of cultural regeneration in the Ural minor cities: public opinion of citizens’ youth]. Voprosy upravleniya [Management Issues]. No. 6, iss. 36, pp. 177–187.

Federal’naya sluzhba gosudarstvennoy statistiki [Federal State Statistics Service]. Available at: http://www.gks.ru/ (accessed 29.07.2019).

Fedotova, N.G. (2017). Formirovanie gorodskoy identichnosti: faktornyy i institutsional’nyy aspekty [The formation of urban identity: factorial and institutional aspects]. Zhurnal sotsiologii i sotsial’noy antropologii [The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology]. No. 20, iss. 3, p. 32–49.

Filippov, A.F. (2008). Sotsiologiya prostranstva [Sociology of space]. Saint-Petersburg: Vladimir Dal’ Publ., 290 p.

Gorshkov, M.K. and Tikhonova, N.E (eds.) (2016). Rossiyskoe obschestvo i vyzovy vremeni. Kniga tret’ya [Russian society and challenges of the time. Book three]. Moscow: Ves’ Mir Publ., 424 p.

Hillier, B. (2008). Space and spatiality: what the built environment needs from social theory. Building Research and Information. No. 36, vol. 3, p. 216–230.

Jeon, J.Y., Lee, P.J., Hong, J.Y., Lavandier, C., et al. (2017). A cross-national comparison in assessment of urban park soundscapes in France, Korea, and Sweden through laboratory experiments. Applied Acoustics. No. 130, p. 107-117. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2017.12.016

Korableva, G.B. and Merenkov, A.V. (eds.) (2015). Sotsial’noe prostranstvo sovremennogo goroda [Social space of the modern city]. Yekaterinburg: Ural University Publ., 252 p.

Law, J. (2006). Ob’ekty i prostranstva [Objects and space]. Sotsiologicheskoe obozrenie [Russian Sociological Review]. Vol. 5, no. 1, p. 30–42.

Lefebvre, H. (2002). Proizvodstvo prostranstva [The production of space]. Sotsiologicheskoe obozrenie [Russian Sociological Review]. Vol. 2, no. 3, p. 27–29.

Radina, N.K. and Porshnev, A.V. (2014). Pozhilye gorozhane megapolisov i malykh gorodov: solidarnost’, al’truizm i prioritety v oblasti gorodskogo razvitiya [Older city-dweller of the city and the «small towns»: solidarity, altruism and priorities in the sphere of urban development]. Sotsiologiya vlasti [Sociology of Power] No. 3, p. 141–158.

Saraf, M. (2011). Kul’turnoe prostranstvo kak predmet issledovaniya [Cultural apace as a subject of research]. Prostranstvo i vremya [Space and Time]. No. 4(6), p. 15–19.

Shtompka, P. (2005). Sotsiologiya: Analiz sovremennogo obschestva [Sociology: an analysis of modern society]. Moscow: Logos Publ., 664 p.

Svodnye itogi Vserossiyskoy perepisi naseleniya 2010 goda. Razdel 2. Uroven’ obrazovaniya naseleniya [Summary results of the 2010 All-Russian population census. Section 2. The level of education of the population]. Available at: https://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/vol4pdf-m.html (accessed 22.07.2019).

Tikhonova, N.E. (2014). Faktory stratifikatsii v sovremennoy Rossii: dinamika sravnitel’noy znachimosti [The stratification factors in contemporary Russia: the dynamics of comparative significance]. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. No. 10, pp. 23–35.

Van’ke, A.V. and Polukhina, E.V. (2018). Territtorial’naya identichnost’ v industrial’nykh rayonakh: kul’turnye praktiki zavodskikh rabochikh i deyateley sovremennogo iskusstva [Territorial identities in industrial: cultural practices of factory workers and contemporary art communities]. Laboratorium: Zhurnal sotsial’nykh issledovaniy [Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research]. No. 10(3), p. 4–34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25285/2078-1938-2018-10-3-4-34

Zaborova, E.N. and Islamova, A.F. (2013). Gorod kak sotsial’noe prostranstvo [City as a social space]. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. No. 2, pp. 97–101.

Received 01.08.2019

For citation:

Kienko T.S. The audiovisual environment of the South-Russian cities through the eyes of the citizens: education as a social frame design space // Perm University Herald. Series «Philosophy. Psychology. Sociology». 2019. Iss. 3. P. 429–439. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17072/2078-7898/2019-3-429-439