Sociological interpretations of data on the aggregate capital of regional population (work experience abroad, relation to labour migration ...)
Sociological interpretations of data on the aggregate capital of regional population (work experience abroad, relation to labour migration ...)

Summary/Abstract: In the present article, the authors continue their sociological interpretations of the empiric data obtained in the research project “Aggregate Capital, Its Structure and Relation to Labour Migration” (2012). The following hypothesis has been proved: a higher predisposition for the labour migration is more typical for economically active region’s inhabitants with fairly high amounts of some indicators of the aggregate capital, especially physical capital, but with a comparatively lower amount of cultural capital, which could transform into human capital and further into economic capital in Latgale or Latvia. An in-depth analysis of the factors of life success has revealed that, in general, our respondents tend to assign the lead role not to the personal competitive characteristics (resources) but rather to the specificity of the social environment: an explanation of life success by means of a set of variables that, on the whole, describe it as a socio-political innovation with criminal tendencies (political corruption) is the most spread one.

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