Subjective well-being: the problem of analyzing population qualitative heterogeneity (part 2)
- Authors: Kuchenkova A.V.1, Tatarova G.G.1
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Affiliations:
- FCTAS RAS
- Issue: No 5 (2024)
- Pages: 66-78
- Section: МЕТОДОЛОГИЯ И МЕТОДЫ СОЦИОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ
- URL: https://clinpractice.ru/0132-1625/article/view/673826
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0132162524050058
- ID: 673826
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Abstract
The article substantiates the importance of the methodological problem of analyzing qualitative heterogeneity of an objects’ set in the process of sociological measurement of subjective well-being. It presents the results of an exploratory study aimed at testing a number of tools in reconstruction procedures of social types among the population as qualitatively homogeneous latent formations (according to the nature of subjective well-being). In the first part of the article, an analysis was carried out of the “researchers’ request” for methodological reflection on the use in mass surveys of such subjective well-being generalized indicators as life satisfaction, personal happiness; the problem of the complete set of particular indicators was considered; the expediency of using relationships between the generalized indicator and the particular indicators as a basis for the typology was substantiated.
This part of the article provides a brief description of the fuzzy classification algorithm from the class of logical-combinatorial methods used to search for typological syndromes, that are the basis for identifying typological groups. The results of a typological analysis, based on the RLMS HSE, wave 26, 2017 data are presented. Identification of the qualitative heterogeneity specifics in subjective well-being was carried out for all workers and for groups among them, representing three stages of the life cycle.
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Anna V. Kuchenkova
FCTAS RAS
Author for correspondence.
Email: a.v.kuchenkova@gmail.com
Cand. Sci. (Sociol.), Senior Researcher, Institute of Sociology
Russian Federation, MoscowGalina G. Tatarova
FCTAS RAS
Email: tatarova-gg@rambler.ru
Dr. Sci. (Sociol.), Prof., Chief Researcher, Institute of Sociology
Russian Federation, MoscowReferences
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