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.