SAFETY OF LIFE AS A SUBJECT OF SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS: CLARIFICATION OF THE CONTENT OF THE CONCEPT

Abstract

The article analyses the sociological definition of «security» and «safety» presented in the works of domestic and foreign scientists. The possibilities of sociological study of safety of life at meta, macro, meso-, micro-, and nanolevels, and also the connection between the author’s definition of life safety as a component of the embodiment of the safety culture that integrates aspects of behavior safe type as the uncontested model of activity and range of competences (knowledge of the standard rules of conduct in both domestic and in extreme situations, ability to implement actions of self-preservation). Argued the benefits of further development of the system of modern knowledge about security within the sociology of safety as a new branch of theory, which in contrast to the sociology of security, sociology of culture of safety, sevitology and securitology has a number of significant advantages.

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L. V. Kalashnikova

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  • EP ID EP256770
  • DOI 10.18524/2304-1439.2017.1(28).119969
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L. V. Kalashnikova (2017). SAFETY OF LIFE AS A SUBJECT OF SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS: CLARIFICATION OF THE CONTENT OF THE CONCEPT. Вісник Одеського національного університету. Соціологія і політичні науки, 22(1), 54-65. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-256770