In Search for a Russian Knowledge Worker.
TEIKOLA, NATALIA (2004)
2004
Sosiaalipsykologia - Social Psychology
Yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekunta - Faculty of Social Sciences
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2004-06-07
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1 INTRODUCTION 5 1.1. ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION SOCIETY IN RUSSIA 5 1.2. PERSONAL NOTES 6 1.3 DEFINITION OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY 9 2 ABOUT THE CONTEXT OF AN INFORMATION SOCIETY 9 3 PROBLEMATICS IN RUSSIA 11 3.1 INDIVIDUALISM VERSUS COLLECTIVISM 12 3.2 INDUSTRIALISM 13 3.3 HISTORY OF HIDDEN KNOWLEDGE 13 3.4 ABOUT THE AREA STRUCTURE 15 3.5 THE PROSPECTS 16 4 WORK 17 4.1 NEW DEMANDS OF WORK KNOWLEDGE WORK 18 4.2 THE KNOWLEDGE WORKER 19 4.2.1 About the Operationalisation of the Knowledge Worker 20 4.2.2 ”Have’s” and ”Have Not’s” 21 4.2.3 Knowledge Workers in the Middle Class 22 4.2.4 Russian Middle Class 23 5 ATTITUDES TOWARDS SOMETHING 25 5.1 SOCIETY IN CHANGE 25 5.2 ABOUT MENTAL CLIMATE IN RUSSIA 26 6 ABOUT THE RESEARCH FRAME 27 7 METHODS 28 7.1 THE DATA 28 7.2 DATA ANALYSIS 29 7.3 VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY ISSUES 30 7.4 ABOUT THE CAUSALITY 31 8. RESULTS 32 8.1 DEMOGRAPHICS 32 8.2 SOCIAL PROFILE 34 8.3 KNOWLEDGE WORKERS AT WORK 36 8.4 POSITION IN MANAGEMENT HIERARCHY 38 8.5 SATISFACTION AT WORK 39 8.6 INCOME STRUCTURE 43 8.7 ATTITUDES 49 9 DISCUSSION 55 LITERATURE 59 APPENDICES 63
Tiivistelmä
Hakutermit:
information society, Russia, Soviet Union, knowledge worker, middle class, attitude
My study is about Russia. More specifically it is a study about the development of an information society in Russia. My main task is to look for a profile of a Russian knowledge worker.
More than ten years after the collapse of the Soviet Union the heir, Russian Federation is still looking for its own path. I wanted to contemplate the process of transition from the perspective of information society. The discussions about information society often concern mostly capitalist countries. Even though Russia nowadays is acknowledged to have a market economy, it clearly has to tackle with the past and the socialist heritage. There are many obstacles for Russia in order to develop a functioning market economy, and furthermore, to become an information society.
I have concentrated on the labour force working with knowledge. The knowledge workers are sometimes praised as forerunners of a new era. I decided to find out about the Russian knowledge workers and about their situation in the society. My interest was to find out the positions of the knowledge workers in relation to of the rest of the working population.
The study is based on quantitative data collected for “Social Distinctions in Modern Russia” research. The data are from the year 1998. More than two thousand interviews were made. In my study I will use some thousand of them, which is the share of working people in the data. I have analyzed the data using SPSS statistical program.
My study shows that the knowledge workers do stand up among the rest of the working population. Most saliently they do that in the respect of wealth. Also, they do have other benefits on their side, such as higher status in management categories. In addition, it seems that their world view tends to be slightly different than the world view of those, who are not categorized as knowledge workers. Altogether, it seems fair to say that the knowledge workers are in privileged positions. Thus they posses more means to act not only for their own future, but for a society at large. In a sense, they really are in key positions. However, it remains to be seen, in what way it all turns out.
information society, Russia, Soviet Union, knowledge worker, middle class, attitude
My study is about Russia. More specifically it is a study about the development of an information society in Russia. My main task is to look for a profile of a Russian knowledge worker.
More than ten years after the collapse of the Soviet Union the heir, Russian Federation is still looking for its own path. I wanted to contemplate the process of transition from the perspective of information society. The discussions about information society often concern mostly capitalist countries. Even though Russia nowadays is acknowledged to have a market economy, it clearly has to tackle with the past and the socialist heritage. There are many obstacles for Russia in order to develop a functioning market economy, and furthermore, to become an information society.
I have concentrated on the labour force working with knowledge. The knowledge workers are sometimes praised as forerunners of a new era. I decided to find out about the Russian knowledge workers and about their situation in the society. My interest was to find out the positions of the knowledge workers in relation to of the rest of the working population.
The study is based on quantitative data collected for “Social Distinctions in Modern Russia” research. The data are from the year 1998. More than two thousand interviews were made. In my study I will use some thousand of them, which is the share of working people in the data. I have analyzed the data using SPSS statistical program.
My study shows that the knowledge workers do stand up among the rest of the working population. Most saliently they do that in the respect of wealth. Also, they do have other benefits on their side, such as higher status in management categories. In addition, it seems that their world view tends to be slightly different than the world view of those, who are not categorized as knowledge workers. Altogether, it seems fair to say that the knowledge workers are in privileged positions. Thus they posses more means to act not only for their own future, but for a society at large. In a sense, they really are in key positions. However, it remains to be seen, in what way it all turns out.