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The article tracks the dynamics of protest practices in Ukrainian society in a period after so called 'Orange revolution'. The author selects the structural, socio-psychological and resource mobilization approaches to explanation of the protest behavior factors. Upon this ground, these factors are aggregated in two explanatory models. Structural factors form the model of social disruption. At the...
In the modern society, we witness crucial changes correlated with transformations in the communication and information spheres. How do they influence development and functioning of all social system? Can they become the reason of transformation of the most social system? To what extent the laws of information and communication do influence the laws of social institutes functioning? And can they cause...
The concept-category apparatus of symbols and symbolic interaction is analyzed from the sociological point of view. It is emphasized, that the symbols in the social sciences can be not only the subject matter of special research, but also its means as a part of its methodology. Symbol is examined as: social phenomenon, resource of social interaction, adaptive resource, mechanism of self-presentation...
In the article, the theoretical origins of environmental sociology in a classic sociological theory are examined. The basic stages of genesis of eco-sociological theory are analyzed in detail, particularly such directions in sociology, as social Darwinism, geographical school, as well as K. Marx's, E. Durkheim's, and M. Weber's views on the interrelations between society and its natural environment...
The chapter seeks to identify the historical roots of sociological knowledge and its contemporary transformations. The chapter traces the origins of sociology as a separate discipline. Sociology's subject-matter is also discussed. Based on new publications utilizing archival data, the chapter claims that the term 'sociology' was suggested by E. J. Sieyes (1749-1836) in his manuscript circa 1780. The...
In history, the fates of the power and of the state are inextricably intertwined. Therefore the changes of the power's forms in modern global society have an effect on transformations of sovereignty of the modern state. As a result of globalization the monocentric structure of power of the states competing eagerly with each other is replaced by policentric distributing of power, in which a great number...
The research is aimed at the study of the occupational structure of the Ukrainian society, in particular of the distribution of the population of Ukraine by occupational groups (which were derived according to the International Standard Classification of Occupations ISCO-88). The statistical data demonstrate that a significant dynamics of occupational differentiation of Ukrainian population took place...
Recent studies on social solidarity have been concentrated either on the theoretical exploration of the phenomenon or on the investigation of solidarity aspects in empirical studies of little social groups. The paper presents a theory of social solidarity and a measurement instrument to study the phenomenon on the general level of Ukrainian society. The authoress provides the description of methodic...
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