The concept of “human capital”: a socio-philosophical justification for a new model necessity
O. V. Tsiguleva
Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russia
Keywords: man, human capital, anthropological approach, humanitarian approach, human capital models, human capital conceptualization, foundations of a new model of human capital, Social philosophy
Abstract
Introduction. Human capital and its socio-philosophical foundations are not new problems for philosophy. The social transformation of a person as an employee, with the problems of his new identity and the formation of subjectivity, showed limitations in the explication of human capital. The interpretation of human capital as a socio-spiritual phenomenon is also not fully adequate to modern realities. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to introduce the rationale for building such a model of human capital, which can remove the limitations of explication of human capital as “capital” and “human capital” in the aspect of socio-spiritual phenomenon. The methodological basis of the research is the work of domestic and foreign scientists, representatives of social, humanitarian and cognitive sciences. The anthropological approach in its socio-philosophical discourse is chosen as the main approach to their analysis. Discussion. Human capital as a socio-cultural phenomenon is considered in the focus of modern research presented by a synthetic model. At the same time, its semantic content becomes the interaction of the “economic man”, “spiritual man”, and “social man” with artificial intelligence, which generates uncertainties in the formation of human capital. It is proved that such an anthropological approach needs a new interpretation and its extension to the humanitarian one. Based on the analysis of previous concepts of human capital, some theoretical foundations for the conceptualization of the new model are proposed. Conclusion. The analyzed positional characteristics of human capital have shown that quite decent and working concepts of human capital for the industrial era and post-industrial society need some correction. This correction is connected not only with globalization and virtualization as determining the nature of sociality today, but also with the change in the nature of man himself, his subjectivity and identity. Obviously, these processes will require adjustments to the foundations that previously developed in the concepts of human capital.
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