SOCIAL JUSTICE AS A FACTOR OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze the possibilities of using the concept of social justice as a factor in the socio-economic development of a region (on the example of the Saratov region). Methodological basis: dialectical, logical, as well as structural-functional research methods, fundamental scientific research on economic sociology, the mechanism for the formation of the concept of social justice. The sociological survey method was used (the analysis of the results of the sociological poll “Problems of social justice in Russian society” was carried out, the sample size was 500 people, 2018). Results : an analysis of interdisciplinary concepts of social justice is presented, the relationship between the processes of social justice development and the formation of socio-economic development factors is clarified. It is proved that the introduction of projects of social justice is an objective phenomenon, which is inherent in the modern regional socio-economic policy of society, regardless of the specifics of its social and economic organizational systems. Conclusions: a fair social structure of society is a condition for the economic activity of citizens, and hence the factor of sustainable economic development of the region, a separate organization. In the conditions of transformation of the Russian society, a change in its socio-economic structure, an update of the economic culture of citizens takes place. The concept of social justice is also undergoing significant changes, the practices of social and socioeconomic construction of justice are modernized, and the conditions of social justice are reconverted in the process of economic development. The system of regional social institutions in the new environment provides recognition and strict legal protection of various forms of economic freedom, as well as comparable chances for the development of the human potential of individuals, and their labor implementation in building their own life strategy.