Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.19181/inter.2022.14.1.3
E. Berdysheva
From a common sense perspective health is an absolute value. However, even in European societies, with their well-developed institutional infrastructure of preventive healthcare, individuals need to be encouraged, or even forced, for practicing self-care. The Russian state is also interested to promote a healthy lifestyle and self-preservation behavior among the population. Nevertheless, sociological data demonstrate that Russians are more inclined to use their health than to save and increase it for the future. Sociologists give mainly structural explanations for health investments unattractiveness, while the individuals' recognition of the value of health remains outside their attention. This paper examines the deficits of an individual’s intrinsic motivation to invest in one’s health within a valuation framework, emphasising the constructed and fluid nature of the social worth of self-care in market societies. The Russian case exemplifies the local meanings behind the value of health investments in terms of gaining return from health as a capital, consumer good and personal value. An abductive analysis of 26 in-depth interviews with Russians who enjoy health investments (‘health enthusiasts’) reconstructs mindsets that make investing in one’s health attractive. Streamlined by the valuation framework, the study reveals three levels of self-care value: physical (body taming for self-maximisation); positional (the ability to achieve new health indicators through science-based self-management as a new precursor of social status); and transcendent (projecting the desired self in terms of authentic self-expression and autonomous sustainability). Empirics signify the involvement of ‘health enthusiasts’ into consumption of market products that have been marketized as “good for health”. These commodities praise the value of health, legitimize individual interest to it, ritualize health care practices and contribute to a more self-focused, autonomous, and resilient entrepreneurial self. “Health enthusiasts” begin experiencing health as an asset, an investment into vitality and personal productivity. They discover own human potential and practice self-care as a path of “returning to oneself”. The results of the study demonstrate that market driven cultivation of self-care value may produce a utilitarian approach to self among Russians. This approach increases the subjective value of self and supports preventive self-care that is in demand in Russia. At the same time, market driven individual obsession with health may increase social competition and disintegration.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.19181/inter.2022.14.1.1
E. Zdravomyslova, Elena Yarskaya-Smirnova, Elena L. Omelchenko, Ilya Shteynberg
The qualitative paradigm is at a new stage of development. That is the position of the well-known international journal FQS (Forum: Qualitative Social Research), which started the discussion “Quality of qualitative research”, where it raises topical issues of further development of the field as a kind of “Where is the qualitative paradigm going?”.Taking up this initiative, our journal invited the experts to speak on the block of questions proposed by colleagues, but with reference to the Russian-speaking segment of the field.Well-known leaders in this area – Elena Zdravomyslova, Elena Yarskaya-Smirnova, Elena Omelchenko, Ilya Steinberg – responded to the journal’s proposal. Here we publish their answers to the questions discussed.
定性范式正处于一个新的发展阶段。这是国际知名杂志FQS(论坛:定性社会研究)的立场，它开始讨论“定性研究的质量”，在那里它提出了该领域进一步发展的主题问题，作为一种“定性范式将向何处去?”根据这一倡议，本刊邀请专家就同事提出的问题发言，但涉及该领域的俄语部分。该领域的知名领袖——Elena Zdravomyslova, Elena Yarskaya-Smirnova, Elena Omelchenko, Ilya Steinberg——回应了该杂志的建议。在这里，我们公布了他们对所讨论问题的回答。
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{"title":"Lire la Bible, écrire un poème : le goût du vin nouveau","authors":"J. Lemaire","doi":"10.3917/nord.078.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/nord.078.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81563,"journal":{"name":"Inter-Nord","volume":"90 6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89427276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Les autrices du Nord de la France et de Belgique chez les éditeurs lillois Lefort au XIXe siècle","authors":"C. Dhérent","doi":"10.3917/nord.078.0077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/nord.078.0077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81563,"journal":{"name":"Inter-Nord","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87560110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jean-Pierre Lemaire : une parole unique","authors":"Philippe Mathy","doi":"10.3917/nord.078.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/nord.078.0037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81563,"journal":{"name":"Inter-Nord","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78261653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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