Endogenous and Exogenous Factors of the Socio-cultural Development of Modern Ukrainian Regions Cover Image

Ендогенні та екзогенні чинники соціокультурного розвитку регіонів сучасної України
Endogenous and Exogenous Factors of the Socio-cultural Development of Modern Ukrainian Regions

Author(s): Oleksandr Viktorovich Yakovlev
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Economic policy, Social development, Demography and human biology, Rural and urban sociology, Economic development, Migration Studies, Geopolitics
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: exogenous and endogenous factors; social and cultural development; region; synergy; convergence; cluster; strategic and project approaches;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the problem of the regional cultural development in Ukraine. Exogenous (external) factors associated with the inclusion of Ukraine to globalization, urbanization with development of cities and large towns, population migration, due to changes in the political system and economic policy in the period from Independence. Endogenous (internal) factors that influence the cross-regional development of Ukraine belongs geopolitical origin, historical period, entering the region of the particular country, geographic location, which enables or complicates cross-border cooperation, ethno-demographic origin, the proportion of ethnic groups in the locus. Removal of significant disparities of regional development requires the development of a rational, efficient regional policy: improving its institutional support, increasing convergence of regional socio-economic, cultural and educational subsystems. Low level convergence is to strengthen the trend towards widening gap between the most and least developed regions, differences of socio-economic, environmental and cultural regional policy, interregional disparities in the development of human resources, material quality and differentiation of the cultural needs of the population, growth in international migration labor in border regions. The main endogenous and exogenous factors insufficient convergence regions of Ukraine is the lack of a coherent institutional framework of interregional cooperation, the conceptual bases of operation, availability of regional barriers to its implementation. As an essential precondition for the effectiveness of regional policy is its positioning as policy coordination of interests, and its ideology – on the basis of subsidiary, partnership and synergy. Thus, the basis for creating a strategically oriented policy is to improve the institutional framework for regional development. Ukraine has still not been coordinated or concerted industry and sectoral programs of socio-cultural development of the regions with the strategic objectives of synergy national policy. The objective of the cultural studies is to identify cultural policy and ways of synergy socio-cultural development of regions. So the current state of cultural regionika requires scientific justification status of clusters as recognized in international practice effective instrument of cooperation, integration and cooperation at the regional, cross-border and inter-state levels. Unfortunately, the theory and practice of cluster approach has not been reflected in regional cultural studies. Institutional solve this problem in cultural dimensions requires the specification definition of "cluster in the cultural and educational sector," creating and fostering innovation within the cultural clusters, the role clusters as tools projects interregional cooperation and synergy of national identities into a single cultural continuum of Ukraine. By institutional instruments of regional policy cooperation is coordinated strategic and project planning cultural activities of the state. To consecutive regional and national development of socio-cultural sphere in Ukraine offers a combination of strategic and project approaches in public planning. The idea of a synergistic approach (A. Yakovlev) as a strategic direction in the study of patterns of converting relatively simple components and subsystems in hierarchically complex structures of cultural activities in the plane synergetic paradigm of self may be the methodological basis of association values of certain ethnic communities and regions in a holistic cultural continuum united Ukraine. Conceptual solving international humanitarian strategies and their implementation in pilot projects proposed in contemporary cultural studies (V. Lychkovakh, Y. Suhrobovoya, M. Timoshenko, L. Tereshchenko-Caidan, A. Yakovlev), developed at the National Academy of Culture and Arts. As a means of intensification of synergetic processes in the cultural environment of the region offers modern social and humanitarian projects aimed at further integration development. In the presented projects synergy Ukrainian culture revealed considering dialectics of regional time-space and common patterns of occurrence, development, transformation of certain ethnic communities, regions and their association with holistic cultural continuum of Ukraine – National Collegiate image of Ukraine in the globalized world of the early twenty-first century.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 93-98
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Ukrainian