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The paper deals with the history of development of evaluating methods abroad which consisted of three main stages. The first stage is characterized by domination of experimental tradition, the second one - by the appearance of new alternatives (high-quality investigations, meta-analysis and program theory), and the third one - by integration of qualitative and quantitative methods. Special attention...
Challenging the main reports that see corruption as an evil to eradicate in Ukraine, this article proposes that it would be beneficial to analyze and treat petty corruption that helps people to survive rather than enrich citizens, within the framework of gift exchange proposed by Marcel Mauss. To do so, this paper thus focuses on the three alleged most ‘corrupted' places in Ukraine: a university,...
The article is devoted to the gender aspect of development of small business in Ukraine. Although, historically, sex did not have deciding influence on success in business (the capital amount had a greater weight), however the level of women participation in business, in its management, and also among its proprietors was always lower as compared to men. And now there is a gender disbalance in this...
The author carries out the analysis of the nature of disputed interaction in modern sport. It is shown, that there are opposite approaches describing relations between sport and the social conflict in the scientific literature. The supporters of one of them consider modern sports as a source of the social conflicts, because the essence of sport competition is conflict. The supporters of the opposite...
The East-West social space differentiation in the territory of Ukraine and Belarus is thought to be the result of historical interaction of two different civilizations: the European one, which spread its influence from the west, and the Russian Orthodox one, which advanced from the east. The author's study considered the scope of social, demographic and cultural differentiation with respect to historical...
The paper presents results of visual analysis of gender content of TV commercial advertising. One can distinguish two views of analysis in visual sociology: the view of 'social iconography' (in which codification of sign-icons (iconograms) of certain models of social behaviour is performed) and the view of 'social iconology' (E.Panofsky) (in which the practice of understanding and interpretation of...
(Title on Ukrainian - 'Vplyv rezul'tativ prezydents'kykh vyboriv 2004 i 2010 rokiv na emotsiine samopochuttia prykhyl'nykiv riznykh politychnykh syl'). The article studies the influence of 2004 and 2010 presidential elections results on emotional status of the adherents of the two main political camps, i. e. the Orange and the White-and-Blue. The common traits and differences in emotional reaction...
The author considers in detail the attitude of political subjects and regional communities to decentralization of state power. Texts of the programs of political parties and a discourse of political applications of representatives of different political forces have been analyzed. Special attention is concentrated on the analysis of results of the population inquiries concerning the expansion of rights...
The article presents the need for formalization of sociological theories. Formalization is needed to test sociological theories, that is to define if theories fit data of researches, and, respectively, if theories describe or explain social reality well. Theory is considered as a set of concepts (that may be empirically measured) and relations between the concepts that in total describe or explain...
The paper applies several indicators of fraud to the official precinct level returns of Ukraine's 2010 presidential contest - indicators developed and used previously to assess elections in Russia, Ukraine, Taiwan, Mexico and Venezuela - and compares the authors' findings to the third round of Ukraine's 2004 presidential vote. Overall,the authors conclude that Viktor Yanukovych won a free and fair...
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