The cooperation of competing actors as a social strategy

The authors analyze the Russian and international studies on the relationships between the categories of competition and cooperation. The high relevance of this research is determined by the fact that the actors of economic activities and social practices have to remain intensely competitive by promoting the modalities of collaboration in the context of the unstable economic situation since the market environment, its transformations, technological advances and global integration processes lead to cooperation. To address this challenge, it is necessary to rethink the traditional social strategies which are based on competition and determine the prospects for cooperation. The authors prove that the Russian people give priority to cooperation rather than competition and consider the moral aspects of differences in these economic and social strategies.