SOCIO-ETHICAL ASPECTS OF MODERNIZATION OF RUSSIAN ECONOMY

Abstract

The article considers significant modern concepts of social and ethical basis of modernization of the Russian economy. The success of modernization largely depends on the coordination between transformations in the economy, on the one hand, and in society, on the other hand. The existing system of values, the peculiarities of the Russian mentality and the peculiarities of the current stage of modernization generate some points, insufficient attention to which limits the possibility of implementing adopted programs and strategies. The decrease in the quality of life of the population, observed today, has a negative impact on social well-being and leads to the deterioration of socio-ethical conditions of modernization. The increasing conflicts’ situation and in some cases the mood of confrontation call for more ethic market transformations. At the time, when Russian society is characterized with economic determinism, the system of regulation of the Russian economy and the Russian society as a whole requires certain moral reorientation. The achievement of social peace is a necessary prerequisite for the modernization. The solution of this problem, among other items, involves full municipal social life, associated with the process of self-organization of local communities, the inclusion into the system of ethical attitudes of Russian society such values, as solidarity, complicity, self-organization and self-government.