TY - JOUR

T1 - Social Participation as a Theoretical Concept and Social Phenomenon

AU - Pevnaya, Maria v.

N1 - This work is supported by grant of the Russian Science Foundation, project No. 24-28-01482 \u201CProject-based learning in the development of professionalism and citizenship of Russian students: management context and creation of transforming agency\u201D, https://rscf.ru/project/24-28-01482/ As well as serving as a theoretical framework for considering topics in sociology, psychology, anthropology, and economics, the concept of social participation informs interdisciplinary studies. Whether at the level of local spaces or different countries, the various interaction practices of different social groups occurring in the context of contemporary changes in the globalized world can be captured according to this theoretical paradigm. While there are a number of concepts and definitions of social participation, we rely here on its broad interpretation as human interaction with other people in the course of their joint actions based around certain goals. According to this version, social participation can be associated with various processes to help explain how the interaction of people in communities leads to certain results. The diversity of approaches in the study of this phenomenon can be reduced to its definition as the participation of human actors to meet almost any conceivable collective aspiration (Cornwall, 2008). On the one hand, such a broad research optics is not always conducive to developing a common language for researchers working in different fields, leading to problems in the development and selection of tools for measuring social participation, as well as blurred or incomplete efforts in the field of social policy (Levasseur et al., 2010). On the other hand, the indicated basis of social participation provides a flexible theoretical framework for empirical studies into different practices of participation in order to assess their

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

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U2 - 10.15826/csp.2024.8.1.260

DO - 10.15826/csp.2024.8.1.260

M3 - Editorial

VL - 8

SP - 5

EP - 13

JO - Changing Societies & Personalities

JF - Changing Societies & Personalities

SN - 2587-6104

IS - 1

ER -