Entertainment for wealthy and wealthy individuals: a new TOP from HG! Leisure of the rich and poor Leisure of the rich

Only a small part of the billionaires living on the planet lead a public lifestyle. Most of the richest people in the world are unknown to the general public. However, this does not stop them from living in a big way and showing off their wealth on social networks to millions of followers. Day.Az, citing Gazeta.ru, presents the most striking photos from the life of the rich, who talk about themselves on social networks.

In the summer of 2014, a 19-year-old British millionaire Alim Iqbal, also known as Lord Aleem, was the victim of intruders who set fire to four of his cars worth over half a million pounds.

The perpetrators allegedly set the fire out of envy of Alim's huge fleet of vehicles.

In the photo, the eldest daughter of the boss of Formula 1 Bernie Ecclestone Tamara breastfeeding her 8 month old daughter Sofia in the dining room of his £70 million London mansion. In the background is the husband of the heiress of billions Jay Rutland reading a newspaper

Tamara Ecclestone is currently commentating on Channel 4's Red Bull Air Race World Series. She owns a television production company with her sister.

From a family of Iranian refugees Tony Tutuni made a fortune in the USA and became known for his outrageous entertainment

Tutuni's Instagram account is full of photos of wads of money, guns, private jets, luxury cars and half-naked girls.

Tony Tutuni Celebrates Thanksgiving

Timothy Sykes- one of the most successful young traders in the world. On Sachs' Instagram - expensive cars, beautiful girls and mountains of money. However, many people on Wall Street note that Sykes closed his hedge fund due to losses even before the 2008 global crisis and now his main job is lectures and seminars on trading.

Comments ( 6 )

Nikolai, more than 50 games have already been invented by me or creatively reworked from well-known ones to organize the leisure of our wealthy compatriots. Here are four of the most popular:
1. "Homeless tour" - clients are made up as homeless people, put on rags, rubbed with rotten radish for the appropriate smell and sent to the Three Stations Square in Moscow to earn alms. The one who manages to collect the most wins. Of course, I have to pay extra money to those godfathers who control the homeless work in that "gold-bearing" place. The game has been very popular for over 7 years. Not so long ago, 4 ministers of the Russian Federation played it at once.
2. "Waitresses" - clients are made up and dressed as shaggy waiters, after which they serve an incredibly colorful audience in shabby cafes near the railway station. The winner is the one who, while serving dumplings on plastic plates to customers, still manages to get at least some tip from them.
3. "Market traders" - customers are put behind the counters of an ordinary collective farm market, where their task is to make the greatest profit by trading in tomatoes, cucumbers or apples, pears and other vegetables or fruits. The winner is the one who has the most revenue with the least number of transactions. Bankers, sales managers and marketers especially love the game.
4. "Strippers" - clients are taught to spin around a pole, undress, collect tips in an elastic band on their hips, sew appropriate striptease outfits for them, make up and release on stage one of the most popular strip clubs in the capital. The winner is the one that collects the largest amount of tips in the rubber band on the thigh. For about 7 years, the game has been a constant success, both among the wives of businessmen and their husbands.
These are far from all the games that are offered in the extensive menu of my agency, which has been making good money organizing role-playing and business games for almost 10 years now.

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Thank you Sergey for your attention, I have not been in the community for long, but I have already paid attention to your creative approach to games and organizing elite entertainment tours. Yes, and about the game "Homeless Tour" you, and some respected members of the community also spoke out. My interest lies in a slightly different area - as long as the client considers the game as a game, it brings him new sensations, joy, emotional charge - no doubt! What about the severity of the situation? For your money, for a couple of weeks in a place where no one understands you? Without a doubt, control is present there, but hardly at the level of yours, so there, in this training, the same bums can easily spoil the physiognomy ... Although, as far as I know, it didn’t come to that, but who will spread about it ?

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It seems to me, Nikolai, that this way of changing people cannot be called training in the strict sense of the word, and training too.
I think this is a good shake-up for a person (I just don’t understand what 20,000 euros are for), and if he copes with the task, it means that he either already possessed the same practical and emotional intelligence or developed it. And if you didn't make it? How? will die of hunger and cold in a foreign land (do you know how events develop in this case? interesting), how is training built in this case?
It reminds me of a way to learn to swim, when a person is thrown into the river - you swim out - you learned, if you don't swim out - you didn't learn. Numerous sections and swimming instructors show that there are more humane and effective ways to master swimming.
In my opinion, the controlled games that Sergey offers to his clients are more humane, and besides, they can be repeated (hone your skills)

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The price tag of course ... otherwise I saw and even participated in such trainings (not much differently, of course).
I can say about "do not cope." Tasks are essentially under the lower level of development. In the first days, they cry and ask for their mother, but then they somehow solve the problem. They reach the end. This is most likely the training - to be able to get together and do what is necessary. I know only one case of "removal from the track" - I seriously injured my leg while making a fire (this case, again, is the only time when it was clear that the situation was under the control of the organizers).
For those who already have the qualities, this is at best an adventure - well, maybe the first day or two - while getting oriented in a new environment. For them, this is not training, but only confirmation of their skills.
"Reasoners" at the level of a student living in a hostel without "feeding" their parents and a soldier - a conscript to perform such tasks is more than enough.

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Most of the wealthy people of the country have a “lying” vacation: a chic beach of a fashionable spa hotel, a sun lounger, a cool cocktail, sometimes excursions and walks on the sea on a comfortable yacht with a silent, smiling crew. But there are businessmen who are looking for adrenaline not only at work, but also on vacation. For 15 years of cooperation with such clients, my agency has developed an unofficial classification of entertainment for people who are ready to pay big money for vacations.

Labor rest

I met the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky in 1999. He then said: “If you can surprise with some kind of entertainment, we will work.” This is how the incredibly tenacious game “Homeless” appeared, which since then has been played by other oligarchs, tough politicians from the Kremlin, State Duma deputies, ambassadors of foreign states, journalists, pop and movie stars.

A person is accustomed to living in a luxurious house, working in a modern office, in a beautiful office. He sees his city from the back seat of a luxury car, smoothly driven by a personal chauffeur. When such a client wants to get a short but bright day off, we immerse him for several hours or a day in a completely different environment, sometimes aggressive and extremely uncomfortable. Businessmen, with the help of professional make-up artists and stylists, become homeless, and they have to earn small money by begging for it from passers-by on the forecourt or stealing postcards in souvenir shops to sell to tourists and earn a living.

When Berezovsky got tired of being homeless (and he played several times), I came up with about 50 more similar games (“waiters” in a poor cafe, “poor musicians” on a pedestrian street, “street artists” in Montmartre in Paris), but this one turned out to be a hit. For many years, about once every three months, someone orders another “homeless tour”.

Holiday-safari

Some of our clients are addicted to the game "Rescue Mission" and fly to different parts of the world, where we find a difficult task for them: to save a Siberian village from insolent wolves, to kill a shark that terrorizes tourists on the beaches of Portugal, to neutralize a rhinoceros attacking the inhabitants of a tiny village in South Africa, etc.

The idea of ​​this quest is also over 15 years old: the first one was for a major Moscow businessman in 1998 as a birthday present. The birthday boy in the company of friends hunted huge rats for several days in a row in the basement of an abandoned capital mansion. And then he began to play a superhero regularly, arriving on a private plane to help the inhabitants of the planet.

Holidays in resorts

The answer to the question "What are you going to do at the resort?" standard: sleep off, ride an inflatable banana, scuba dive, learn to kite or windsurf, ski, snowmobile, snowboard, etc. We propose to complete this set with adventures.

In Courchevel, our clients raced on dog sleds, in Dubai they participated in a golf tournament on the roof of a skyscraper, in the Canary Islands they played the quest "Saving Santa Claus".

However, it happens that I am approached with a ready-made idea. So it was with paintball on paragliders in the skies of the Swiss resort of St. Moritz: the idea came up with several large Russian businessmen and asked me to organize a game for them. To be honest, at first I refused: the probability of a fatal accident at altitude during an air duel is too high, albeit with a paintball weapon. Then I realized that the guys would arrange it with or without me, and took it.

A paraglider is a parachute with two seats and a propeller suspended from it. Sitting in them, six adult boys soared into the sky with guns and began firing at each other with plastic balls of paint. Their pilots, real aces from the Russian and French Olympic paragliding teams, did pirouettes and dived at each other with the utmost risk. I didn’t shoot myself, I just yelled into the radio at the pilots to be careful, but my pilot was clearly in a drive and did incredible somersaults, maneuvering between the shooters. For the first time in my life, I was close to a heart attack, seeing the danger my players were exposed to.

It's gone! We all landed safely. The winner was determined by the number of his hits in others. Then we drank in a restaurant, danced until we dropped in a nightclub to the songs of Russian pop stars, and at night I painfully tried to fall asleep, clearly realizing that I would never undertake to arrange this game if I knew in advance how dangerous it would be.

Holidays in Russia

It happens that wealthy clients want to relax inside the country. Then we are interested in their childhood and youthful unfulfilled dreams. This is how the programs "Tank Battle" at the training ground, "Retrorally" along the Golden Ring around Moscow, "Captain of a fishing trawler" in the Caspian Sea, "Brave Polar Explorers" at the North Pole, "Taiga Expedition" in Siberia, "Basmachi under the white sun in the desert" appear , "Supermodels of the fashion catwalk" in the fashion show of St. Petersburg, "Mushroom Quest" in Karelia ... There are no such projects in the agency's services menu, all are designed to order.

The popularity of recreation in Russia has increased after the 2014 Olympics: inspired by the event, many customers have become interested in the resorts of Krasnaya Polyana. Since mid-2014, there has been a demand for Crimea. Clients are also interested in such regions as Altai and Karelia.

A craving for Russian national traditions also appeared in the theme of private parties.

Venues for celebrations held behind closed doors, cuisine, music and entertainment for guests have become fashionable to bring closer to Russian folklore.

Rest event

Carnivals, national or local holidays are held weekly in one of the cities of the world. Among wealthy people there are many who are looking for a holiday everywhere. Such people spend their holidays in those places whose population these days walks to the fullest.

It is one thing to come to see the Venice Carnival, and another thing to dress up in local costumes and become an animator in one of the squares of Venice. It's one thing to come to Amsterdam on the famous Queen's Days, and another to take part in the orange madness, riding in special costumes along the picturesque canal streets. At the carnival in Rio, you can sit in the stands of the sambadrome, or you can walk in a dance column, dancing along with one of the samba schools. It's cool to look at the street theater show of the unique festival in the city of Avignon, but you can also perform on its stage, putting on a play with friends and playing all the roles in it. Not all people with money have the desire to be so creative, but if they do, their resources allow you to do the incredible.

Federal Agency for Education of the Russian Federation

GOU VPO Saratov State Technical University

Institute of Social and Industrial Management

Faculty of Social Systems Management

Department of Tourism Business Management

Course work

By discipline Sociology of Leisure

on the topic: "Leisure of the rich and the poor"

Completed: Art. cafe MTB

gr. SKS-31

Godjaeva E.B

Checked:

Otnyukova M.S.

Saratov 2009

Introduction

1.1 Leisure of the poor

1.2 Leisure of the rich

1.3 Tourism as an indicator of social status

Conclusion

Appendix

Introduction

In the hard times that have come, it has become difficult for people to choose how to spend their leisure time. The crisis is forcing people to work two to three times more for the same wage, if not less. A person does not have time for himself at all. He gets tired and more and more leisure takes a passive form. As Les Heywood would say: leisure has come to be understood as residual time. The difficult economic situation in the country sharply singled out two poles, two strata: the rich and the poor. But at any time it is natural for a person to rest. But how he will spend his time depends on many indicators, including the standard of living.

This topic is relevant in our turbulent times. Crisis - crime is on the rise. The people need to be occupied with something, otherwise it will turn out as in the saying: all vices come from idleness. How to direct the emotions and energy of people who are depressed by the current situation? The purpose of this work is to study the opportunities for spending leisure time by the polar strata, as well as their leisure preferences, i.e. what opportunities people have for spending their leisure time and how they really want to spend it.

The object of this work are rich and poor people. The subject is the leisure of these social strata.

To solve the goal, the following tasks were set: to understand from what the concepts of rich and poor arise, i.e. to determine who are the poor and who are the rich, to consider how these categories of people spend their leisure time, to consider tourism as an indicator of social status.

In the second half of the work, a specific study will be carried out, on the basis of which categories of people and their leisure preferences and real opportunities will be identified.

Chapter 1 The Leisure of the Rich and the Poor

To begin with, it is necessary to determine who are the poor and who are the rich. The concept of social stratification will help us with this. Social stratification is the differentiation of some given set of people (population) into classes and groups in a hierarchical rank. It finds expression in the existence of higher and lower strata. Its basis and essence lies in the uneven distribution of rights and privileges, responsibilities and obligations, the presence or absence of social values, power and influence among members of society.

Social stratification is a set of vertically arranged social strata, in particular, the poor, the wealthy, the rich. Inequality and poverty are concepts closely related to social stratification. Stratification is based on inequality. The poor and the rich are not equal in their incomes, prestige of their kind of activity, political weight. In other words, they have different ranks, i.e. place in the social hierarchy. We can say that social stratification describes the stratification of people into classes, or we can say that it indicates how people are distributed in social space in accordance with their hierarchical ranks. The basis of stratification is the uneven distribution of rights and privileges, responsibilities and duties, power and influence.

Inequality characterizes the unequal distribution of society's scarce resources—money, power, education, and prestige—between different strata or strata of the population. The main measure of inequality is the number of liquid values. This function is usually performed by money (in primitive societies, inequality was expressed in the number of small and large cattle, shells, etc.).

If inequality is presented in the form of a scale, then on one of its poles there will be those who own the largest (rich), and on the other - the smallest (poor) amount of goods. Thus, poverty is the economic and socio-cultural condition of people who have a minimum amount of liquid values ​​and limited access to social benefits.

Poverty is not only a minimum income, but a special way and style of life, norms of behavior, stereotypes of perception and psychology that are passed down from generation to generation. So sociologists talk about poverty as a special subculture.

1. Leisure of the poor

Turning to the problem of leisure, it should be emphasized that only a third of the poor are more or less satisfied with its quality. No more than 5-7% of the representatives of materially disadvantaged groups recognized their leisure opportunities as good. What fills the leisure time of those groups of the population that most noticeably differ in the level of their material well-being?

As can be seen in Figure 1 (see Appendix 1), some forms of leisure activities are available to almost every Russian (television, reading newspapers, household chores, hobbies, religious participation). The use of others (opportunities to communicate with friends, some domestic hobbies associated with certain additional costs - books, music, video, computer, self-education, attending theaters, cinema, concerts) decreases with varying degrees of intensity as one moves down the social ladder. A number of ways to spend free time for the majority of the population is simply inaccessible. First of all, this refers to various forms of active leisure outside the home, meeting the needs for a full-fledged social, cultural and public life. For those who are poor, there are no (and for the population as a whole, they are noticeably narrowed) the possibilities of using entertaining, recreational, developing components of non-home recreation and leisure.

As for the poor, for them the possibilities of leading an active social life outside the home not only do not grow, but in some positions even narrower (paid entertainment, attendance at cultural events).

As the study showed, the ratio of different types of leisure differs qualitatively among representatives of polar social strata. For example, for the poor, these figures look like this: adherents of active leisure - 19.6%; traditional - 56.8%; and simple - 23.6%.

It is in the group of the poor (and only among them) that in recent years there has been a noticeable decrease in the bar of their own spiritual claims. Due to acute financial difficulties, people begin to abandon the style and way of life that was most preferable for them in the recent past, that is, they abandon the most important component of their own social identification and gradually not only sink to the bottom in material terms, but also degrade in personal relationship. Since 2000, among the poorest population of Russia, there has been a sharp drop in interest in self-education, art, and literature (by almost 20%). Over 80% of poor intellectuals who love the theater cannot afford to attend performances, up to 90% of those who love fine arts do not visit museums and exhibitions, the same proportion of poor lovers of modern and classical music is deprived of the opportunity to go to concerts. At the same time, only a third of rich intellectuals who declare their love for these types of art, for one reason or another, do not attend theaters, concerts, museums and exhibitions.

1. Leisure of the rich

It must be said that the forms of spending free time during the years of market reforms have undergone certain changes, but these changes have affected various social groups to varying degrees. Thus, the most prosperous part of the Russian population, since 1999, has seen an almost two-fold increase in such types of leisure activities outside the home as visiting cafes, bars, restaurants, a one and a half-fold increase in attendance at concerts, cinema, exhibitions, museums, outstripping rates in the sphere of home leisure the computer, the Internet are being introduced, not too obvious, but the social and political component of leisure is steadily increasing (participation in the activities of clubs, associations, attending meetings). In the general population, these changes are present to a very small extent.

Also, in the prosperous segments of the population, there is a drop in interest in television, especially in its entertainment version.

What can be said about the distribution of types of leisure: among the rich, the number of adherents of active leisure is 80.7%, traditional - 15.6% and simple - 3.7%.

In general, up to 70% of rich people recognized their leisure opportunities as good.

The rich spend their leisure time more diversely than the poor. This applies to classes both requiring and not requiring additional costs. The rich are one and a half times more likely to read both periodicals and books, 5 times more likely to visit cultural institutions, 2.2 times more likely to go to sporting events, almost twice as likely to play musical instruments or sing, draw.

From all of the above, we can conclude. Most leisure activities, even those that do not require financial investment, are less likely to attract the poor. Their free time is less exciting, they think less about its meaning and do not express much dissatisfaction with it, that is, in general, they are not going to change this situation. The poor are less likely to talk about hobbies, reading, self-development, communication, they pay more attention to spectacles, to recreation proper, despite the fact that the proportions of “very” and “not very” tired after work among the rich and the poor are approximately the same.

Nevertheless, to the question: “If you want to have a pleasant evening, what would you most likely do?” - the majority of respondents, regardless of their income, answered that they would “spend time with guests”. This means that Russians first of all understand “live” communication by “pleasant pastime”.

Thus, two opposite tendencies are observed in the development of leisure. One is in its simplification, impoverishment. A significant part of the respondents perceive the forms of leisure available to them as forced, which turns into an acute feeling of boredom, melancholy, and loneliness. People have a sharply reduced sense of freedom of choice. In its extreme forms, the simplification of leisure leads to the fact that people do not know at all what to do with their free time.

However, there is another trend - to complicate, exalt the forms of leisure. It can be defined as a tendency of self-development of the personality. It is associated with the feeling that personal opportunities are expanding, education and self-education, tourism, and travel begin to occupy an important place.

As you can see, different groups of the population have completely different opportunities to get involved in social life, to practice active leisure outside the home. Empirical evidence unequivocally indicates that the type of leisure and attitude towards one's free time become integral features of belonging to a certain social stratum.

1. Tourism as an indicator of social status

What does a person need in our time besides money? Probably, the possibility of self-affirmation, recognition. In this chapter, we will look at how tourism can build a personal identity, i.e. how travel can shape a person's social status.

Starting in the 1970s, as the industrial societies of the West were replaced by post-industrial ones, work as the main social attribute began to give way to leisure. “Profession” as a defining characteristic of social status has been replaced by the concept of “lifestyle”, which combines the type of work, leisure, marital status, place of residence and level of consumption. Work was reduced only to a means of generating income - impersonal and alienated, and most of life's values ​​("spontaneity", "intimacy", "creativity") turned out to be concentrated outside it - in the family circle, in the field of leisure (hobbies, sports, vacation organization) .

Here is what the British sociologist John Urry writes in The View of the Tourist: Leisure and Travel in Modern Societies: “Traveling today takes up 40% of free time. If people don't travel, they lose status: travel has become a sign of status. The most important element of modern life has become the belief that travel and vacations are necessary. Since the values ​​of this comparison tend to become the values ​​of the whole society, taking a vacation away from home is no longer just one of the possible types of recreation, but a social norm that must be followed. Modern tourism is a complex ritual with its own rigidly designed scenario, for the deviation from which the tourist will be criticized by his fellows. If an American goes to Europe, he "must see" Paris, and in Paris the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, and in the Louvre the Venus de Milo and the Mona Lisa.

This obligation extends not only to pleasant, but also to "negative" tourist experiences. If a Midwesterner comes to the South to see "wild Indians," he becomes upset when he finds out that the Indians shown to him as "wild" in their spare time from working as "Indians" walk around in European clothes and watch CNN news on satellite television.

However, despite the frequent disappointments, the current tourist continues to strive for the unexplored beauties of nature and culture.

Citizens of Russia got the opportunity to travel not so long ago. The Soviet experience of such trips abroad was one of humiliation, surveillance, and an attempt by the state to mold travelers' impressions. Traveling - one of the main visible achievements of "perestroika" - for the majority of the townsfolk is much more significant than the ambiguous freedom of speech and little-understood multi-party system. In conditions of poor housing and an unsettled professional "table of ranks", vacations abroad have become a defining classification feature of the emerging middle class in Russia.

But in order to form the status of the very fact of travel, it is necessary to somehow broadcast your own impressions to others. Souvenirs brought from the trip, photographs and amateur videos serve these purposes. The virtual communities of travelers that are taking shape before our eyes are a kind of secular salon where the “fashion of the season” is discussed, the norms of behavior of the new Russian middle class are honed, collective decisions are made about what corresponds and what does not correspond to these norms, and who, therefore, can be include in the number of "own".

On the Internet, many participants seek not only to share their impressions, but also to demonstrate their superiority over others. The author of one story, describing a trip to Turkey, for a long time justified himself for such a “common” choice of direction: “In some circles, vacationing in countries such as Turkey, Egypt or Tunisia is considered indecent ...”. Readers were touched by the frank snobbery of the narrators. Forum participants very often criticize the authors of stories for this, seeing snobbery, including in excessive requirements for the service: “Unfortunately, immigrants from the former USSR have a lot of snobbery and arrogance - they say, give EVERYTHING for our money ...” "Is this snobbery? And what if I worked at the mine for a whole year in order to have a human rest in a 5-star hotel, and they push me into a 2-star, into a room overlooking the garbage?

The author of the last remark has a typical attitude towards rest for the majority of Russians. Chinese sociologist Wang describes a similar phenomenon of peak consumption, when a modest, frugal and in many ways denying himself a person on vacation strives to become "king for an hour", squanders money and splurges others. And whims, excessive demands and claims to the service are an integral part of this behavioral model.

The explanation for this phenomenon is the desire to live for a week not like at home, but a different life - in luxury with helpful servants and maids who need to be "baked".

We conclude: a person goes on a trip in order to prove to himself and others that he is worth it, that he has the opportunity to afford this trip. On a journey, a person asserts himself thanks to diligent servants and "poor" maids. In his homeland, he is led, commanded, maybe humiliated, even shouted - but here, in another place, he enters into this role of leader and leader. Such a person unconsciously acts like this: “As they tortured me at work, so I will torture.” Well, the last moment in self-recognition is photographs, souvenirs from a distant country. The material fact of the stay of the "tortured worker" in a wonderful country.

So, tourism can be called one of the categories that forms the idea of ​​the individual about himself and the idea of ​​society about him. Traveling, a person is realized as a person and proves it to everyone else.

Chapter 2 A Study of the Leisure Preferences of the Rich and the Poor

leisure social status

In April 2009, a sociological study was conducted in the city of Saratov on the topic of leisure preferences and real opportunities for the rich and the poor to spend their leisure time. Questioning was chosen as the research method. The purpose of the study was to identify the leisure preferences of the rich and the poor and to clarify the question: what do these strata actually do?

A total of 43 people were interviewed. Of these, 14 were men and 29 were women. People aged 19 to 67 were interviewed.

To begin with, it was necessary to decompose the questionnaires into piles of income: "small (5-10 thousand rubles)", "medium (11-25 thousand rubles)" and "high (26 thousand rubles and above)". It turned out respectively: 11 people, 23 people and 9 people. From this we can conclude that the majority of respondents live in families with an average income. Further we will see what can follow from this.

When asked how you spend your free time, the first group answered: 6 people answered that they spend their free time watching TV, 4 do their hobbies, 4 go to the theater and concerts, 3 do self-education, 2 answered that they just lie on the sofa. We can conclude that this is to be expected, people with low incomes can hardly afford a club or a restaurant.

The second group was distributed as follows: 20 people spend time with friends, 12 people sit at the computer, 12 people read books and educate themselves, 6 do their favorite thing (hobby) and 6 go to theaters and concerts. 5 go to a club or casino and 2 go in for sports. What conclusion can be drawn: people with average earnings try to spend more time with friends or at home, but already doing different things: some at the computer, some with a book. 6 people devote themselves to a hobby. This is a relatively low figure for the middle class, as can be explained. Either people don't have time, or they don't have money, or they just don't have hobbies. Such people most often think about raising their qualifications and in their free time either improve it or relax at the computer. Perhaps for them the hobby is a waste of time.

It would seem that there is more money and you can go to the club, but still the “middle class” prefers theaters to clubs. Only 2 people go in for sports, this suggests that people either simply do not have the strength after work, or they consider it unnecessary.

The third group was distributed as follows: all 9 people spend time with friends, 7 are engaged in self-education, 5 go in for sports, 5 do what they love, 2 go to clubs and 3 to theaters. Only 1 person prefers to lie on the couch. Conclusion: once again, friends come first. They say money spoils people and they try to spend more time with precious friends. 7 people are engaged in self-education - "new Russians" comprehend languages ​​or improve their skills or simply read books. 5 - go in for sports - most likely this is a purely symbolic trip to fitness clubs to maintain status. But it is also possible that people have the opportunity to monitor their health, their weight, maybe they go in for sports at home, or maybe they just do exercises with their children. But the fact is that rich people play sports more often than all other strata. Probably because they have the opportunity to do so. Half of the rich people surveyed indulge in their favorite business in their free time - a hobby. Most likely, this can also be justified by the available opportunities. A person has money - he can afford to buy ancient coins or the work of a local artist. As it turned out, clubs are not so popular among the wealthy stratum of the population. Only 2 people go there: a 26-year-old girl and a 42-year-old man.

3 people visit the theater - after all, the cultural program attracts rich people more than a disco.

Next question: how would you like to spend your free time?

The first group was divided as follows: 10 people would like to go to the theater and concerts, 8 would like to go shopping, 5 would take up a hobby, and 2 people each answered: in a club, in a casino and read. Conclusion: it turns out that people with low earnings do not rush to the club or the casino, they want to go to the theater. It has been noticed that people of retirement age would prefer the theater, and young people would prefer theater and concerts. It's nice to see that young people want to visit cultural institutions, but, unfortunately, they don't have the opportunity, or maybe they just don't want to. 8 people would like to empty the shops. Buy, and it doesn’t matter what, the main thing here is to spend, to acquire. A consumer society, here a desire is manifested to spend money, to feel that there is money, that there is a lot of it. Half would have stayed with their favorite business, the Saratov people probably have very tenacious hobbies, since people do not want to part with them, even if they have money or other opportunities, they will still prefer a hobby than going to a club. But no one will refuse delicious food: in the “other” section, 3 people wrote a cafe, restaurant or bar.

The second group was distributed as follows: 20 people would prefer to sit in a restaurant or a club, 13 - go shopping, 12 - go to the casino, 10 - to the theater, three would do what they love and three more would read. And only 2 people would watch TV. What does it say. The middle class wants to shake things up, move away from the gray everyday life and office walls - they are eager to spend money in a restaurant, in a store or in a casino. 10 people - almost half decided to continue to cultivate, but if we compare that 6 people actually go to the theater, we can conclude that 4 people want to go there, but do not consider it possible. But the hobby decided to abandon. It is better to spend time well-fed and satisfied, having played enough in the casino, than to indulge in your favorite and so familiar business. It is this routine that is the reason for the change of priorities. 2 people could not think of anything, or they are saving money for a long-awaited vacation.

The third group was distributed as follows: 8 people - casinos, 8 - shops, 2 - to the theater, 3 - to the concert and 4 people, in addition to the rest of the answers, also added something like “I want something unusual”, for example, “to jump with a parachute” or "play paintball". What conclusion can be drawn. Rich people also got tired of this pastime, although almost everyone would prefer casinos and shops. And as it turned out, 1 person refused the theater, only 2 remained faithful to them.

The next question is: how much are you willing to spend on your vacation weekly? In the first group, almost everyone is ready to spend from 100 to 1000 rubles, only 2 people want to relax in a big way from 2000 to 5000 rubles - perhaps they misunderstood the question. People with average earnings are ready to spend a week: up to 5000 rubles - 4 people and 19 people up to 1000 rubles. Conclusion - the middle class saves on their weekends. And finally, the third group. Everyone unanimously answered that they were ready to spend from 1,000 to 5,000 rubles a week. We can conclude that the rich are not particularly eager to spend their money.

How do you usually spend your holidays? The first group answered as follows: out of 11 people - 5 spend in the country, 5 in the city, 5 - do not go anywhere, 1 - at camp sites. Since the majority of respondents in this group are pensioners, the question about vacation could be called incorrect. But all the same, older people wrote about the dacha. Everything is clear here, old people are more willing to be in silence and in the fresh air, most of them cannot afford a camp site, a sanatorium, and even more so a resort. Therefore, they go to the country, they also like to dig in the ground, some live off the garden - potatoes, cabbage, beets, pickles and for sale. Also in the other column, 2 people noted that they were going home. These are students, a separate subcategory of people with low earnings. You need to see your parents, help them, meet friends. In general, this group spends their vacation very economically, and even tries to earn money on it (selling apples, students earning part-time).

The second group: 10 people spend their holidays in the country, 8 - in tourist centers, 6 - in Russian resorts, 4 - in sanatoriums, 2 - abroad, 2 - within the city. The middle class prefers to calmly sunbathe in the country, it does not require extra costs, and you do not have to travel far, and if you still have small children, then the cottage is the best option for spending holidays. 8 in camp sites and 4 in sanatoriums - remnants of Soviet times, as it turned out, even in our time are relevant. To improve health, to make an inexpensive peeling - this can be afforded by the middle class in sanatoriums and resorts. 6 go to rest in domestic resorts - it's not expensive, and closer to the sea, to Europe. 2 people can afford a vacation abroad. This is very small, among the middle class there could be more. It can be concluded that the Saratov middle class saves money abroad and prefers domestic resorts. 2 people generally have a rest in the city, perhaps at this time they visit leisure facilities in their native city, or swim on the city beach.

The third group: all of the respondents in this group have a rest in Russian resorts, 4 people have a rest abroad, 6 in sanatoriums, 3 in the country. This group can easily afford foreign resorts, but still prefer Russian ones. Although half of them often visited abroad. 6 - rests in sanatoriums, health is important for everyone, regardless of income level. 3 in the country, i.e. rich people in Saratov do not rest in their dachas all the time.

Next question: where would you like to spend your vacation? The first group was distributed as follows: 8 people would go on a trip to world attractions, 3 - on an expensive beach, 2 - in the country. 2 people - a 67-year-old man and a 66-year-old woman would prefer to spend this time in the country. In a personal interview, they said that why go somewhere, when there are a lot of beautiful places in our area, and the garden needs to be watered. This rigidity of older people does not allow them to travel long distances, even in their imagination. The poor strata of the population, having lived for many years in a small apartment, dream of seeing a big and beautiful world, with the greatest achievements of culture.

The second group was distributed as follows: 20 people would go on a tour of world attractions - most likely this is due to the desire to escape from the gray everyday life, change the environment, cultivate themselves. 10 - would like to relax on an expensive beach - a typical example of peak consumption. Two wrote that they wanted to be on a desert island - an extreme manifestation of the desire to escape from the hustle and bustle. Everything has become so insipid for these people that they are eager to be in the role of Robinson. 9 wished to take an extreme tour - this is due to the thirst for thrills. It can be concluded that the middle class lacks bright, new emotions.

The third group: 5 would take an extreme tour - rich people can afford traditional cultural and educational tours, perhaps they are already fed up with the cultural program and they really want thrills, so they climb a high mountain or go down a mountain river. 3 wished to relax at an expensive resort - probably to maintain the status of a rich person. 3 would like to be on a desert island, tired of the casino, the hustle and bustle of business, these people want to escape from civilization.

The next question is: how much are you willing to spend during your summer vacation? The first group most answered 5-10 thousand rubles. It is understandable. If your family income is only 5-10 thousand rubles, then they can afford a vacation with the same money, if not less. The second group, with a majority of 14 people, answered that they were ready to spend 5-10 thousand rubles on vacation. - we can conclude that the middle class is not yet ready to spend large sums of money on recreation. Although a little less than half in the middle class are ready to pay 11-20 thousand rubles. to rest. And the third group in the majority is ready to spend 11-20 thousand rubles, two people are ready to rest in the amount of 21-30 thousand rubles. and two more people are ready to spend heavily on their vacation, giving 31-60 thousand rubles. Almost not all rich people are ready to give good money for vacation. But there are some, because traveling with that kind of money, they rise in the eyes of others.

How often do you visit abroad? In the first group, two people in the “other” column noted that they had once been abroad more than once. That's what retirees said. What do today's statistics say? All 11 people wrote that they do not go abroad. The second group leaves Russia: once every two years - 6 people, once a year - 12 people, twice a year - 5 people, two of whom noted that they leave for work or for advanced training. The third group: one person wrote that he travels abroad more than 5 times a year - "such a job." But mostly rich people travel once a year. They also work, and they have one vacation a year, but rather long, in which they can visit many countries. They do.

Which country resorts do you prefer? The first group: 7 people in the “other” column wrote that they cannot afford resorts, and at the same time 4 prefer Russian resorts and 2 European resorts.

Last question: would you like to spend more money on your vacation? The first group: 3 people noted that everything suits them - we have already talked about the rigidity of the elderly, they do not want to change anything, let everything remain as it was, anyway they consider the Soviet era the best time to travel. And 8 people would like to completely change their leisure time. The life of the poor does not suit everyone, and such people are waiting for changes in their lives. The second group: 12 people would like to slightly improve their pastime. It is good that they consider their leisure to be good, and even better is the fact that they want to improve it - development is a step in evolution. 9 people want to completely change their leisure time. They want to add color to life, more money, and, as they think, everything will become fine, and life will become more fun. In fact, you can’t run away from yourself, and the big money invested in leisure will not bring great happiness to these people. And two people in their leisure are satisfied with everything. Probably, they are very well settled and satisfied with themselves and their leisure.

Third group: 5 people want to slightly improve their leisure time. To add thrills, as mentioned above, these people are also tired of routine. True, they say about such people “they are mad with fat”, but it is up to them to decide. And 5 people still want to change their leisure time a little. Four people are fine. Perhaps they, too, are well settled and happy with life.

Conclusion

Rich or poor, we all love to relax. But how? Unfortunately, the poor most often lack the opportunity, they are not able to achieve what they want. But there are such forms of leisure that can be accessed by a wide mass of people from different strata. These are volunteering, charity, visiting circles, Palaces of Culture, free exhibitions, participation in rallies, participation in various competitions and in the life of an educational institution, etc.

Divides people into poor and rich amount of liquid values. This function is usually performed by money.

If inequality is presented in the form of a scale, then on one of its poles there will be those who own the largest (rich), and on the other - the smallest (poor) amount of goods.

Poor people increasingly began to limit themselves in leisure. It should be emphasized that only a third of the poor are more or less satisfied with the quality of their leisure time. No more than 5-7% of respondents recognized their leisure opportunities as good. A number of ways to spend free time for the majority of the population is inaccessible. First of all, this refers to various forms of active leisure outside the home, meeting the needs for a full-fledged social, cultural and public life. For those who are poor, there are no (and for the population as a whole, they are noticeably narrowed) the possibilities of using entertaining, recreational, developing components of non-home recreation and leisure.

Some domestic hobbies associated with certain additional costs - books, music, videos, computers, self-education, attending theaters, cinemas, concerts - also go into oblivion for the poor person.

The rich have seen a two-fold increase in such types of leisure activities outside the home as visiting cafes, bars, restaurants, a one and a half-fold increase in attendance at concerts, cinema, exhibitions, museums; the political component of leisure (participation in the activities of clubs, associations, attending meetings). On the other hand, interest in watching TV, especially entertainment programs, decreases.

Tourism as an indicator of social status is widespread among the middle class. These are mostly white-collar workers, managers, people who are not accustomed to command, but have dreamed about it for so long. And now they are given such an opportunity at the resort. Where they can freely manage the service staff and feel like a king. Also, a person asserts himself on a journey, proving to himself and others that he was able to save money and buy an expensive tour. And in order to prove to society that the tour was expensive, a person must bring evidence of this from the trip: souvenirs and photographs, possibly clothes. Then everyone will see that he has visited this country, and returned - alive - healthy, and happy, and ready for a new job. So, tourism also helps society to understand: who is rich and who is poor. That is, it can be one of the categories for social stratification.

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Types of leisure activities for the rich and poor, in %

Annex 2

Hello! The Department of Tourism Business Management of the Saratov State Technical University is conducting a sociological survey on the topic of leisure "Leisure of the rich and the poor" and we will be extremely grateful if you take a little of your time and answer our questions. The research is conducted anonymously. The received data will be transferred to the Ministry of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism and will be taken into account in their further activities.

Please tick the answer with which you agree. Please don't skip questions.

1. Your gender: male __ female __

2. Your age is ________ years

3. Marital status _________________

4. Your education: primary __ secondary __ specialized secondary __

Incomplete higher __ higher __

5. Do you have children ______

6. If yes, indicate their age ____________

7. Your place of residence __________________________________________

8. The level of your family income: small (5-10 thousand rubles) ___, medium (11-25 thousand rubles) ___ and high (26 thousand rubles and above) ___.

9. How do you spend your free time?

I watch TV, I listen to the radio ___

I have a hobby ___

I read books, educate myself ___

Spend time with friends ___

I go to a club, a restaurant, a casino ___

I go to the theater, to concerts ___

Doing sports ___

I'm lying on the sofa ___

I sit at the computer, on the Internet ___

10. How would you like to spend your free time?

In a club, restaurant ___

Do what I love ___

Go shopping ___

At the casino ___

Read (a) ___

Watched TV ___

Went to a concert ___

Went to the theater ___

Other __________________________________________________

11. How much are you willing to spend on your vacation weekly?

From 100 to 1000 rubles ___

From 2000 to 5000 rubles ___

From 6000 and above ___

12. How do you usually spend your summer holidays?

At home, I don't go anywhere ___

In the city ___

In the country ___

In sanatoriums ___

At camp sites ___

At Russian resorts ___

Abroad ___

Other __________________________________________________

13. Where would you like to spend your holidays?

In the country ___

On a desert island ___

At an expensive resort ___

In a sanatorium ___

I would go on a trip to world attractions ___

Would take an extreme tour ___

14. How much are you willing to spend during your summer vacation?

Not able to spend money on vacation ___

5-10 thousand rubles ___

11-20 thousand rubles ___

21-30 thousand rubles ___

31-60 thousand rubles ___

60 thousand rubles and higher ___

15. How often do you go abroad?

2 times per year ___

1 time per year ___

1 every 2 years ___

I don't go abroad ___

Other __________________________________________________

16. Which countries' resorts do you prefer?

Russia ___

Ukraine ___

Turkey ___

Egypt ___

European resorts ___

Other __________________________________________________

17. Would you like to spend more money on your vacation?

No, everything suits me ___

Yes, I would like (a) to slightly improve my leisure time ___

Yes, I would like to completely change my leisure time ___

Thank you very much for participating in our survey!

Sociology. Educational-methodical set / Kazan: Institute of Social and Humanitarian Knowledge. - 2006

Kravchenko A.I. Sociology: A textbook for university students.- M .: "Academic Project", Publishing Corporation "Lotos", 1999.- p.151

Kravchenko A.I. Sociology: A textbook for university students.- M .: "Academic Project", Publishing Corporation "Lotos", 1999.- p. 151

“All people love the classics, but not everyone knows about it,” says Alexander Chakhovsky, art organizer of the Classics at the Town Hall project. Five years ago, he worked in IT, and then dramatically changed his life. TUT.BY learned from Chakhovsky which of the Belarusian musicians could play in Barcelona, ​​why schoolchildren were no longer sent to the best concerts, and also how flash mobs, quests and open-air concerts make the classics popular.

Used to drive the school kids, now the hipsters are coming

In 2012, Chakhovsky founded the Classics Music House, which promotes academic music in a format that is close and understandable to ordinary viewers. Why did the metropolitan IT specialist change his life so dramatically?

- At some point, I realized: the direction that I was engaged in ceased to interest me. It was a kind of run in place. I have always liked the classics. As a child, I studied at a music school, so the foundations were laid. But I won’t hide it - at the time of the start, I didn’t know a lot. But I always say: if you want to learn something, start teaching, if you want to get to know classical music better, open a music house.

After I got involved in this, I began to prepare, participate in webinars, attend some round tables and delve into the matter more. There is a book, Funky Business, written by two professors at the Stockholm School of Economics. So I started my funky business (the authors of the book argue that the corporate world should become more interesting, people should become creative, etc. - Approx. TUT.BY).

The most famous project, in which Musical House took part, was the Saturday evenings “Classics at the City Hall with velcom”, which were sold out for two seasons in a row. The Minsk City Executive Committee proposed to popularize the classics in this way, Chakhovsky's team organized the event in cooperation with the Idea Foundation.

“Open air is a specific, even a promenade format, when people do not sit, but walk,” says Alexander Chakhovsky. - If in a concert hall you can play a symphony, which usually consists of four movements of 6-12 minutes, then here you need to use other forms. But in the promenade format, the classics go well. It seems to me that the Classics at the Town Hall project has already become a hallmark of our city.

Works by Vivaldi, Mozart, Strauss, Mikhail Kleofas Oginsky and other composers were performed near the Town Hall. Even those who are not yet ready to go to a long concert at the Philharmonic could listen to the masterpieces of the classics.

Alexander Chakhovsky is sure that musical taste should be developed.

“It's like physical education. If a person does not give a damn about himself in physiological terms, he will not do yoga, go to fitness, will not swim in the pool. It is the same with the development of musical taste, - Alexander explains. - True, if in sports you see the result and decide: “Oh, handsome! I’ll go to the gym, ”the situation here is a little different. Here you need to work on yourself in the mental and intellectual sense.

Our listener is first of all a latent lover of classical music. Due to non-standard promotion, we are trying to involve those who do not listen to the classics so far. For example, Mozart is for everyone, this is why he is a genius. And then, when a person is drawn in, he can be invited to some work by Brahms, or Mahler - this is another league of rethinking.

— And how many latent classical lovers do we have?

“Of course, we didn’t do much research. Probably less than Stas Mikhailov. Unfortunately, Alexander smiles. But we already have our own audience. Now I'm seeing an interesting phenomenon. Previously, the last audience for classical music concerts was young people between the ages of 14 and 20. They only came when they were driven out of school. And now the situation is changing - people come to our concerts, a lot of young people, some can be called hipsters. Someone is just interested in trying it, someone really “sticks”, as they say. And there is something in this.

“If Belarusians played in teams like Barcelona, ​​only then would we know them for sure”

Alexander draws attention to the fact that many major world-famous musicians come from Belarus.

- If our compatriots played in teams like Barcelona, ​​only then would we know them for sure. And our classical music stars, unfortunately, are not known to the common man today. Oksana Volkova sings at the Metropolitan Opera, the No. 1 theater in the world. It's like a Belarusian actor starring in a Hollywood movie. Nadezhda Kucher at the Grand Opera in Paris. Belarusian Andrei Kovalinsky is the first trumpet of the national orchestra of France. Pianists Timur Sergeenya and Kirill Keduk with programs around the world. And these are just some of the names.

According to Chakhovsky, it is important that Belarusian stars be known not only in the capital, but also in the regions.

— Imagine: Baranovichi University has a wonderful hall for performances with 500 seats, with an excellent concert grand piano! Alexander Chakhovsky says — Of course, in Minsk there is a philharmonic hall with almost 700 seats, but it is constantly scheduled. There is no other such site in Minsk. And in Baranavichy it is quite possible to hold concerts. Once a month we organize an event, and people come. There is a demand, because there is nothing more classic in the city. A very intelligent audience is gathering.

Does Belarus have its own great composers, classics? Musical house "Classic" is trying to prove that it is. A short video was filmed about one of them in 2013. Athletes, TV presenters, artists recalled Stanislav Moniuszko, the author of songs, operettas, ballets and operas.

Alexander recalls how in Soviet times the State Symphony Orchestra gave a big concert every week in the big hall of the Belarusian State Philharmonic Society.

- Every week there was a new program - and a full hall of people. Now they have one concert a month - there is a certain stagnation. But you can revive what was. And it is necessary. To do this, you need to show how different the classics are. I think we succeed.

Some venues that traditionally perform classical pieces only reinforce stereotypes. For example, that the classics are boring. I would like to dispel such stereotypes.

- For example, for the same hipsters, classics can be presented in an atmosphere familiar to them. Art spaces are very fashionable right now. The guys from one of them recently wrote to us, asking us to speak - perhaps we will do something together with them. Why not? Alexander says. Or another option we're thinking about. We have rich people - this can be seen at least in the cars in the city. Well, do people want to stay somewhere in fur coats, evening dresses, talking and listening to the classics? Please.

It's like an Oscar-winning role-playing game. An entrance ticket can cost 150-200 dollars, for this money there is a buffet table, drinks, an interesting presentation of the concert. Practice shows: two parts for an hour at a concert in the Philharmonic is tiring for people, an overdose. And such concerts can be made from three blocks that are not similar to each other. Let's say, first symphonic music, then the violinist plays a concerto with an orchestra, and in the third part - an orchestra and opera artists.

But there is a problem with the premises where it could be carried out. There is a theater hall in Nesvizh Castle, but it has only 110 seats. To recoup a high-quality pretentious story, you need a platform for 250-400 seats. But, in principle, in Minsk we are already on the outskirts of such a project.

Reality and dreams: flash mobs, quests and classics for children

Flash mobs also help bring the classics closer to the people. Chakhovsky used this format more than once.

- Or here's another form - quests. People love them now. And this is again an element of the game,” says Alexander. — We have developed a theatrical quest around the Nesvizh Castle. The goal is to introduce the history of our country. People meet with the prince, with courtiers, get into rooms where excursions usually do not go, listen to classical music.

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This is what opera flash mobs look like in Minsk.

Classics can be interesting for children, Chakhovsky is sure. It is no coincidence that composers also wrote for this age audience.

- Sergei Prokofiev has a symphonic fairy tale "Peter and the Wolf". Britten has a work “Let's create an opera” - children get acquainted with the opera house, and “compose” their own work. There are different interactive stories. We are thinking about it. Music education can be affordable. But for this it is necessary that tickets for these concerts cost five rubles. But you have to pay for the premises, the work of the musicians, so it comes out at least ten rubles for a ticket. It turns out that we need support, sponsors... Such a project should be beneficial to everyone.

Not only children, but also adults can be involved in the performance of classical music. Alexander Chakhovsky explains one of the possible formats.

- In any team, there will certainly be people who studied at music schools, who know how to play certain instruments. You can combine performances of both amateurs and professionals in the concert program. This is an incredibly powerful thing for team spirit, people's motivation. Imagine if the money was spent not on restaurants at corporate parties, but on something like that. There is also a moment of music therapy: when you not only listen, but also play music yourself. This is great.

The head of the "Musical House" Classics "" sees the problem in the fact that today in Belarus adults are almost never taught to play classical instruments.

“So you want, for example, to learn how to play the oboe. And where to do it? How? I know that there are several courses for adults in music schools on such instruments, but who knows about this? I didn't know about it myself. It would be good to fill this gap.

While working on the project, Alexander Chakhovsky noticed: in state cultural institutions, people missed normal human communication.

— And here I see that people get high from the project. Musicians come with their own ideas, projects - and there is no barrier when you can only come to the director on some day, by making an appointment. It's nice for people. Yes, and for myself, I realized: it's such a thrill to do what you like. You are at a free music concert almost every day. After the previous lesson, I have the following feeling: as if a person who works a lot, a lot, a lot, suddenly ends up on vacation in the Canary Islands. Both the preparation for the concerts and the concerts themselves are a meditative vacation moment for me from the spiritual point of view.

- When everything is so good - do you have a dream?

- Probably, the dream is this: that our project will someday have its own building. So that you can come there not only to listen to the classics, but also to learn from it.