In this article on the basis of number of sociological researches the basic characteristics of social consciousness that will determine the success and effectiveness of the introduction of innovative modernization of Ukraine at the national level are outlined.
The influence of the family circle on the modern adolescent, mutual understandingwith parents is analysed in the article on the results of the research conducted in Ukrainewithin the framework of the International WHO study “Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children” (“HBSC”).
The article describes the process of forming the tourists’ image in non-traditional destinations. Using the developments in the field of social constructivism, morphology of city and tourism researches, the authors focus on the transformation of tourism, especially the expansion of space of tourist attractions. On the example of one of the industrial districts of Kharkiv (settlement HTZ) the ways of reconstructing the industrial area as a tourist facility are analysed.
The article reviews the results of long-term research conducted in Kharkov University of Air Force after Ivan Kozhedub. The author defines social and professional potential, describes the basic types of personality of soldier, gives results of sociological study to detect the most common type of personality of soldier, and reveals peculiarities of optimization of management of the process of forming and development of social and professional potential of soldier in the modern army of Ukraine.
The article presents results of the research of factors of stigmatized perception of professions in modern Ukrainian society. The author examines the stigmatization of professions as a result of permanent crisis situation of Ukrainian society, which leads to pivotal turn in the negative and positive assessments of the social significance of professions, which turns on the cognitive, affective and connotation levels.
The features of influence of stratification processes in financial position, income inequality to the Ukrainian population attitudes of Ukraine to the business sphere. The entrepreneurial potential of the Ukrainian society, and the level of readiness of the economically active population for the business depending on the level of welfare and financial position was analyzed.
The article gives analysis of formation and reproduction of the bourgeoisie in the United States. It was found that having low influence of traditional land aristocrats American bourgeoisie took over the functions of dominant elites. This enabled a quick spread of bourgeois values among all the society. The formation of the bourgeois class initially was at the expence of industrialists, planters and farmers. After acquiring by the bourgeoisie the status of ruling class recruitment to this cohort of non-bourgeois began to narrow. However, starting in mid-twentieth century, in the origin of senior managers of corporations the share of middle and working classes is increasing.
The article is based on results of sociological research, which was aimed to study the process of involvement into injecting drug use. Analysis of the data obtained allowed revealing the key factors that contributed to the involvement to injecting drug use, analyzing provocative motives to start the drug use, and to determine the age features of involvemnet etc.
The article analyzes the religion as a multilevel notion is at the level of its content, at the level of quantitative indicators of religiosity, as well as correlations with other indicators. Results of maintence of multilevel approach to the measurement of religiosity based on empirical data of sociological study in Lutsk.
The article examines the nature, essence, place and role of social conflict in sociological heritage of Weber, particularly in its sociology of policy, economics and religion.
The article deals with different foreign and domestic methods of measuring poverty. The specific approaches for the determination of wealth are proposed.
It is a case study of design and empirical validation of indicators of inclination to bias behavior – connotive component of ethnic bias on the four nationalities: Americans, Jews, Russians and Gypsies. For each constructed three indexes: the propensity to institutional discrimination, avoiding direct contact with hostile behavior. It is assumed that the main structural component parts konatyvnoho majority of ethnic bias in Ukrainian society.
The process of implementation of transit potential held by the Ukraine, in the current crisis conditions, the dynamics and structure of transit are analyzed. The problem of transit transport infrastructure, especially custom conversions is considered.
Methodological approaches to the assessment of the food industry at the mezolevel were deepened. The author’s method for determining the level of specialization of regions was justified and approved. The grouping of regions by the coefficient of the regional advance was carried out.
The main quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the regional markets of educational services of Lviv region and Subcarpathian voivodeship of Poland in the context of the competitiveness of our education system to the European are analyzed. Future prospects for the development of the regional market of educational services in the context of globalization are defined.
The article deals with the problem of non-compliance of the legal holding of benefits to political parties in local elections, functional calling of local government. Forced partyzation is considered as a responsible enough strong public interest. It is emphasized that the consequences are significant losses as local authorities, and failure thus ensure the development of political parties.
The publication presents the results of socio-demographic survey conducted by NGO “Centre “Social monitoring” with the NGO “Ukrainian Institute for Social Research after O.Yaremenko on request of the NGO “Ukrainian Center of Social Reforms” in the framework of the project United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) “Research of demographic factors of social changes”, which is a component of the Technical Cooperation Programme between UNFPA and the Government of Ukraine for 2006 – 2011.
According to the results of empirical researches the character of stratification processes in Lviv and Donetsk is displayed. The major social strata are distinguished and their stratification profiles are determined, the degree of consistency /inconsistency of status positions in different social strata is established. The self-identification practices of Lviv and Donetsk citizens and their characteristic types of mobile behaviour, the living strategies and the level of social adaptation of individuals from different social strata are analyzed. The peculiarities of the society structurization are interpreted in the context of correlation between different stratification orders that have different abilities to differentiate space of inequality of the region.
In article the basic features of formation, functioning and a role of ethnic stereotypes in consciousness are considered. On the basis of a material received during interviewing of Bulgarians of Odessa living in territory their auto- and heterostereotypes generated as a result of interaction of cultures are studied.
The article gives analysis of the formation and reproduction of the bourgeoisie in most Western European countries. It was found that closer integration of the bourgeoisie with large landowners in the UK and France contributed to the spread of bourgeois values among the ruling elite and further liberalization of these societies. Instead, lack of integration with traditional bourgeois aristocratic circles in Germany only the ruling elite of political power led to the landed class (Juncker), which later became one of the reasons for the formation of the Nazi totalitarian society.
The article presents the results of discourse analysis (with elements of content analysis) of three Ukrainian newspapers in terms of coverage of international migration. Particularly highlighted the issue of economic migration (or rather its form such as migration), long-term migration (diaspora), and crime in this area.
Scientifical article is dedicated to the specific of sociological analysis of research in social expanse of town and their connections and interactions with shape of town and life-expanse of personality.
In the article paradigmal changes that take place in sociological science in a globalizing society. Particular attention is drawn to features of global sociology paradigmal shift to understanding the present and future development of society, its essence. It is noted that the transition from the world of nation states to a cosmopolitan world order leads to a change of priorities: the shift from the priority of traditional international law to the priority of human rights.
The article is devoted consideration of internal tourism in quality one of factors of influence on the processes of forming of national identity. The author analyses tourism as instrument of destruction of stereotypes, as an instrument of sociocultural dialog between the habitants of separate regions of country.
It is considered new possibilities opening modern technologies for woman who want starting their own business in particular Internet. It is shown how exactly the business and its rules may change if rather big segment controlled by woman is formed inside it.
The article analyzes the most common definitions in the sociohumanitarian sciences of the notion of “personal life strategy”. The author offers his own definition of this category, considering the life strategy as a ordered set of the practices of social agent, urged by the specific purpose and defines habitus as a system of dispositions and schemes of perception, thought and action based on individual positions in the field, his experience and capital. The process of forming the life strategy and its relationship with notions of success and symbolic capital.
The article is dedicated to the issues of diversification of employment in rural labor market. The analysis shows that any move of low-income employees involved with agriculture to other areas enhances yield work, reducing poverty, improving social adaptation farmers and consequently will increase the level and quality of life of rural population.
Article is devoted to displaying the essential features of households as a subject of a market economic system and the unique economic organization. External economic factors that affect the structure and size of domestic household consumption, including: quantitative structure, presence of children and their number, age and sex of household members, psychological preferences, environment are analysed.
The article analyzes current problems of exhibition activity in the context of the study of historical retrospective of contemporary processes of transformation in the economy of Ukraine. Based on the study of basic trends in the exhibition activities in domestic and foreign practice there were suggested the improvement and development of the exhibition business in Ukraine.
The features of informal employment of population of Ukraine are considered in the conditions of economic crisis. On the basis of own sociological researches the level of participation of population in an informal economy of the three regions of Western Ukraine, basic sources of unofficial profits and reasons of their receipt are analysed.
This article studies major ways, conditions, methods and mechanisms for the democratization of the authoritarian system of social management in the light of sociological analysis.
The present article addresses the analysis of parliamentarian monarchies of the Western Europe as political regime units. Grounding on the basis of material being researched author makes an attempt to explain the phenomenon of political stability of European parliamentarian monarchies and the social consolidation of a political regime and also figures out the experience useful for Ukraine.
The existing in foreign and national sociological, psychological, economic, and political science literature approaches to defining the essence of the concepts of “trust” and “social capital”, different views concerning the nature and characteristics of the correlation of trust and social capital are analyzed and summarized, the author’s vision of these features is formed. Their peculiar status in relation to one another is determined; the features and prospects of this correlation in future research are defined.
The analysis contained in this article focuses on the problem of the identification “mentality” and “national mentality” and definition of marginality as a one of the characteristics of the Ukrainian national mentality.
The article is devoted to the theoretical articulation of new nonpolitical format of concept “publicity”. The author presents the short review of critical statements of the West European and American social scientists who have analyzed the condition of public sphere development of contemporary cities. Then it is noted a crisis condition of phenomenon “public” in traditional for it spheres of sociality and also summary of the reasons of its decline. Also the attention is focused on on the complex and contextual vision of the phenomenon of publicity. Limitations in the analytical interpretation of the latter in the narrow political sense.
In the article is described the existence and the actualization of territorial subnational identities – local and regional level as a phenomenon of typical for regions, characterized by persistent historical and cultural, economic and social characteristics.
In this article the author reviews questions of the value aspects of historical consciousness as a peculiar mental phenomenon including triune socio-historical integrity: past – present – future.
The article analyzes the ethics of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, concerning private property and which are sources of legitimacy of the latter. These standards are defined as sources of social and philosophical sociological interpretations of the legitimacy of private property.
In article the problems of law-enforcement bodies activities evaluation are analyzed, the role of sociological researches in this process is considered. The deformation of law-enforcement system expressed in the rush for escalating of indicators is analyzed. The results of researches on this problem are given, ways of their decision are analyzed. Authors consider the monitoring of law-enforcement activity as one of the main development prospect of the departmental sociology.
In this article the author considers the applicability and validity of evaluation instruments of value shift in the methodic of R. Inglehart in Ukraine.
Social interest is defined as a rational and value position of the subject (individual/ personality/group/community) concerning provision (preservation/renewal/ enhancement/development) of conditions and ways of its life and behavior in society. System of needs and interests of the subject is depicted in the form of “dynamic sphere”, rotating in the social space of its vital connections and interactions. Modern trends in the group-forming in the terms of socio-structural changes in Ukrainian society are analyzed.
On the basis of the interdisciplinary approach there was investigated the evolution of views on the driving forces of economic development and the role of the individual in this process. The analysis is based on historical and contemporary theoretical achievements of philosophical, sociological and economic thought, reflecting the nature of changes in the perception of economic reality.
In the article are compared the evolution of the basic concepts of property in Western and Eastern Europe in terms of problems and prospects of creation in Ukraine of market economy and civil society. On the basis of the analysis of modern Ukrainian institutional environment the recommendations on ways to strengthen the social position of private property and its legal protection were developed.
The state of still human capital is analyzed in Ukraine and Kharkov region. The terms of his development are definite in the context of deepening of globalization processes in an economy.
Main approaches to define an explanation of ‘scientific school’ are considered. Characteristics, functions and evolution stages of the scientific school are identified as well as its role in development of economic science.
The author explores the impact of the “State reform program for rail transport in 2009–2015 year”, and also develops and grounds the suggestions on its improvement.
Essentiality of technological development of the country economies in postcrisis time is disclosed in the context of social goals realization. Social orientation of technological policy in the new technological basis forming of economic system is considered.
In the article is analyzed the essence and structure of innovation-investment potential of economy. Main approaches were systematized regarding definition and segregation of main concepts of innovation-investment potential formation in scope of provision of requirements of extended reproduction of economy.
In this article essentiality and features of the concept of core competencies in the innovation system are disclosed. A structure of organization competence of the Department of innovative activity and typology of organization (core) competencies for levels of the hierarchy of management of innovative activity are developed and proposed.
The transformation processes in the field of migration in the context of socioeconomic changes in the Ukrainian society are considered, migration trends in the conditions of global financial crisis are analyzed, the main approaches to the formation of migration policies are suggested.
The article is devoted to the problem of inconsistency of the normative model of formation and functioning of the parliamentary majority to the needs of public-management practices. The instability of the realization of executive power in recent years is considered as over-regulation of the political process. It is proposed to adjust regulations of the national legislation to expand the optionality of formation and functioning of the parliamentary majority.
On the results of surveys of the adult population on the eve of presidential elections in 2010 and on the results of the exit-polls on election day of those voters who voted during the first (on the 17th of January) and second (on the 7th of February) rounds of presidential elections, set of socio-demographic profiles of voters intended to support and actually voted for different candidates were identified. The differences between potential and actual electorate of some politicians were analyzed, features of the electorate that did not take part in voting during the presidential elections in 2010 were identified.
The aim of the article is to evaluate the effectiveness of the organization of Internet-representatives of government, the implementation of state projects to activate the public servants’ usage of electronic forms of interaction with citizens. On the basis of empirical materials the requirements for web sites of the executive power were analyzed, the current problem of the official websites is revealed, priority directions of the state policy for the development of the system of e-management were offered.
The author analyses the reasons and the consequences of sportswear evolution. The sportsweartransformation from a sport uniform to the irreplaceable element of a wardrobe practically of eachmodern man is shown. It is marked, that modern production and consumption of the sport goods is animportant part of sport industry.
The impact of particular social-labour status and income inequality on social wellbeing and economic behavior of the economically active population of Ukraine is determined. The specificity of the relationship between the material situation of the economically active population and social well-being, their own estimates of lifestyle and views on possible future changes in the life and welfare were analyzed. Issues that have been accentuated in the conditions of the financial and economic crisis, depending on social-labour status and income stratification are defined.
In this article an author examines sociological direction of tax relations comprehen- sion in the modern society, to which is spared much less attention comparatively with economic and legal aspects that occupy the privileged position in researches of the tax phenomenon. Research conclusions are based on the results of sociological researches, conducted at the author’s participation on the base of the Research center on taxation problems of the National university of STS of Ukraine.
The article presents an overview and analysis of methodologies for the study of corruption by domestic and foreign scholars. The authors investigated the theo- retical basis of the characteristics of the level and nature of corruption concerning the possibility of their use in sociological researches of corruption in the internal affairs agen- cies. A number of conclusions and recommendations on the methodology of monitoring corruption were made.
The article deals with the research of youth as potential society elite. The competences that distinguish economic elite in three groups: students, economic elite and other graduates, were analyzed. The social-psychological peculiarities of students- economists as a potential elite were determined.
The attempt to adapt express method for evaluating the national intoler- ance – index of national homogeneity support was described in the article. Index may reflect the latent attitudes, which are the expression of a wide range of its manifestations, including peace. Its reliability and validity was assessed. At the same time this scale requires refinement.
An article reveals analysis of the transformational processes in the labor market of the leading sectors of Ukrainian industry during global financial crisis and long-term employment prospect. The authors put the accent on the educational standards raising and professional training, competition tension among low skilled workers, for which employment is expected to decline.
In this article the concept of tourist infrastructure is formulated, its ele- ments are defined, the dynamics of tourist services realization in Chernihiv region is ana- lyzed. A level of provision of infrastructure of Chernigiv tourism industry is researched, major problems in this regard and outlined solutions of these problems are identified.
Legislative mechanisms for the regulation of the socio-labor relations in the found- ers-countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and in Ukraine have been investigated. The directions of their transformation after the Berlin wall falling have been defined. On the basis of the analysis of the national legislation adaptation to the international one have been defined the prospects of the socio-economic strategy further changes in Europe.
In the article the potential of a new phenomenon in the Ukrainian busi- ness, social and academic life – the social audit is revealed. It was also concluded that the widespread use of social audit can significantly extend the ability of practical application of sociological knowledge to solve urgent problems of Ukrainian society.
The author of the article concerns the problem of interaction between authorities and public associations as an important factor in building of civil society in Ukraine. This research is conducted from methodological positions that take into account that the notion of “civil society” characterizes a quality state of society as a whole in terms of its self-organization, the degree of democracy development, and realiza- tion human rights and freedoms of a person as a citizen.
The influence of the level of manipulation of voters and the level of their rejection to manipulations on the dynamics of the rating of the candidates for president position is investigated. The results are based on the computer experiments carried out by means of aged-based modeling NetLogo. It is shown that vicious circle, that makes it impossible to overcome political crisis in Ukraine, appeared
On the results of surveys of the adult population on the eve of presidential elections in 2010 and on the results of the exit-polls on election day of those voters who voted during the first (on the 17th of January) and second (on the 7th of February) rounds of presidential elections, set of socio-demographic profiles of voters intended to support and actually voted for different candidates were identified. The differences between potential and actual electorate of some politicians were analyzed, features of the electorate that did not take part in voting during the presidential elections in 2010 were identified.
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