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The textbook chapter is seeking to elucidate the chief trends of contemporary sociological theorizing as well as its principle problematique. Contemporary theorists are defined here as thinkers who have begun their intellectual careers after the death of T.Parsons. The issue of modernity - its origins, developments, and prospects - is identified as the main problem of contemporary sociological theorizing...
The article analyzes an understudied but important aspect of ideological influence of the media, namely their role in defining beliefs regarding social normality and spreading a normality-oriented worldview. The author conceptually distinguishes normality from normativity: in contrast to the norm as a reflection of certain cultural or ideological values, the normal is of value precisely due to being...
Ukraine is experiencing the transformation of symbolic space including symbols of the past. Such developments are brought up to date by different social agents' needs of self-identification. The past, history and memory are becoming an issue of social sciences and humanities. The article is devoted to justifying the notion 'attitude towards the past' defined as a perception of historian events and...
Validity is one of the basic properties of empirical measurement. A common definition of validity is the extent to which the survey measure accurately reflects the intended construct. But in different sociological source of information there are different understandings of the domain of validity. Some researchers understand validity as a property of measurement, while others - as a property of measurement...
The article is devoted to the analysis of the Ukrainian women's autobiographical narratives, whose youth has concurred with the war and post-war periods of the Soviet history. The methodology of research is based on principles of gender theory, oral history and the philosophy of everyday life. The qualitative methods of analysis of interview are used by the authoress. The purpose of research is: reconstruction...
The author considers some aspects of social prognosis. The article analyzes the term 'Cassandra's information' understood as a high precise prognostication with a great deal of negative information, which is often rejected. The number of illustrative examples of prognoses unaccepted both by public opinion and authorities are suggested. The necessity of registration of social consequences of different...
Inconsistency and marginality are considered in modern sociology as different and unrelated phenomena, each with its own history of elaboration, conceptual and methodical principles. G.Lenski was first to pay proper attention to these phenomena and noticed, that an individual with low consistent status is marginal with characteristic for him social and psychological features. In the sequel, this thesis...
In the paper, the peculiarities of the development of Ukrainian sociology in the context of social, historical, ideological and political transformation of Ukrainian society from the end of 19th century up to the current period are studied. On the base of historical-sociological studies and the archive materials, firstly involved in scientific usage, the authors characterize the historical stages...
The article written in a genre of sociological essays is devoted to the analysis of correlation, co-operation and functional prerogatives of two types of human attitude to the world - material-transformational (productional-economic) attitude and reflectional (artistical-aesthetic) attitude. Each of these two types of attitude is historically necessary within existence and development of human society...
Proceeding from the concept of local civilizations, idea of variability and the theory of functioning of complex systems the author considers modernization as a factor of stability of social system. Macro-sociological discourse and a retrospective view allow presenting modernization as a normative category of historical sociology, on a level with evolution, revolution and convergence. Different societies...
The process of European integration since World War II has been led almost exclusively by political elites. They are also much more proud of Europe than ordinary citizens. The split between elites and citizens turns out also when looking at referenda on the integration process in the different member states of the EU. Only in half of them the population was asked about this far-reaching process; where...
The author carries out historical and sociological analysis of formation processes of modern sports as an industry. The transformation from the game paradigm to sports promoted development of modern sports and made it an important social phenomenon. The reasons and consequences of spreading of new sports practices in 19th - 20th centuries are analyzed. The development of the international sports movement...
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