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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...
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...
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...
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