Социальный капитал молодых предпринимателей в условиях пандемии COVID-19: на примере владельцев крафтовых пространств Санкт-Петербурга

Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены. 2023. № 3(175). С. 199–216.

Balatsyuk E., Gladchenko E.

The COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020 has become a crisis mo-ment for many craft entrepreneurs. New risks and restrictions affecting the craft business required the search for new solutions and resources to overcome the difficulties that have arisen. One of the sources of such resources for craft entrepreneurs was their networks of re-lationships with social agents, which act as channels for extracting economic ben-efits. These networks in the framework of the present study are considered as social capital. The article analyzes the social and cultural capital of young en-trepreneurs — owners of craft spaces in St. Petersburg within the framework of a qualitative paradigm and basing on the theoretical concept of capital by Pierre Bourdieu. The authors show that these alternative forms of capital were used by craft entrepreneurs during the pan-demic to save their business through the establishment of the symbolic sig-nificance of the business in the segment of the craft economy and the formation of a community.

Keywords: предпринимательство, социальный капитал, entrepreneurship, social capital, craft economy, крафтовая экономика, COVID-19, COVID-19, community

Publication based on the results of: Generational identity, life choices and resilience of Russian youth (2023)