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The main reasons and motivations which cause the withdrawal of Ukrainian population's money from deposit accounts at bank institutions are examined in the article. The author describes characteristics of savings behavior of Ukrainian citizens during the period of financial crisis. According to data of the 'Tsentr' analytical group opinion poll (2009), the structure of population's savings preferences...
The data of monitoring of the Ukrainian population's opinions testify the increase of the level of their wages and incomes. At the same time, these incomes on the average de minimis exceed the understated living wage set by the state. The results of the public opinion surveys conducted by the Institute of Sociology, NAN of Ukraine, show that according to Ukrainians' beliefs an income which is needed...
There are discussed the phenomenon of a space self-organization of population and theoretical and methodological premises of its investigation. The authoress proceeds from assumption that the forming of space preferences reflects the reactions of individuals on certain totality of characteristics of their surroundings stipulated by economical, social and psychological reasons. The selective attitudes...
The article is seeking to carry out two tasks: formulation of principles of theoretical validation; and description of the strategy of concept mapping as a procedure applicable at the initial stages of theoretical validation. The author singles out such principles of theoretical validation: socio-cultural relevance; concept-based representativeness and significance; operationalization; temporal and...
The article examines the gnoseological features of retrospective cognition, as well as its general principles. There are analyzed such problems as the correlation of retro-reflection contexts, the application of reconstruction method, and the doctrine of the history 're-comprehension'. On the basis of general sociological approach, the author analyses the complex and specific character of the historical...
(Title in Ukrainian -'Prohnozuvannia povedinky spozhyvachiv na pidstavi teorii poshyrennia innovatsii: teoretychni zasady i mozhlyvosti praktychnoho zastosuvannia'). Prognostication plays an important role in marketing activity of company. The FutureView(TM) is one of the methods developed by TNS Company and based on Diffusion of Innovations Theory. Traditional definition of Early Adopters proposed...
The trend of cultural sociology usually associated with the name of Jeffrey Alexander is highly influential in modern theoretical sociology. During two last decades, he is actively elaborating this 'brand' on theoretical and organizational levels of American sociology. So the aim of the article is to clarify theoretical, methodological and organizational achievements of Alexander's cultural sociology...
The article is devoted to the theoretical problems of phenomenological sociology. The author analyses category-conceptual apparatus used by P.L.Berger and Th.Luckmann, as followers of A.Schutz. Their works are treated here as a 'post-classical' period of phenomenological sociology, although both scientists don't accept a possibility of 'phenomenological sociology' and speak about phenomenology as...
The specificity of transition from the classics to the non-classics, and to the post-non-classics in the sociological theory is analyzed in the article. The main principles of the classic, non-classic and post-non-classic paradigms are postulated from the philosophical point of view. On this basis, the authoress states general definitions of the (1) subject, (2) cognitive method, and (3) social world...
The article tries to prove heuristic potential of the Decision Tree Method in analyzing data of the comparative sociologic research The Ukrainians and Russians: Looking at Each Other', which was done on the initiative of the Institute of Russian Studies, in Russia by the company 'GfK RUS' (June 27 until July 11, 2008), and in Ukraine - by the company 'GfK Ukraine' (June 19 until July 7, 2008). The...
Two multidirectional vectors remain simultaneously valid within the domestic policy of European Union: the integration of European community in a single unit and the increasing regionalization of the EU countries-members. The author of the article comes to the conclusion, that the result of such multidirectional political processes is not the contradiction, but rather interaction of these two trends...
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