Solving research problem the author discusses a subject of mass culture. Popular art as
the most essential part of mass culture exists side by side with the elitist one as well as
plays a broad spectrum of social roles. ...
Development of middle class society may be taken to measure a degree of modernization of post-communist societies in transition to the market system. Using survey data from both Poland and international studies the author ...
The article deals with the verbal behavior peculiar to the different social demographic
and social psychological groups of population under the conditions of market society.
There are analyzed opinions of Ukrainian ...
The aim of this article is to interpret partnership as a social phenomenon and sociological category in operational and conceptual aspects. The author provides a definition of partnership, its characteristics, results, ...
The paper is intended to demonstrate the heuristic potential of the social bifurcation
notion as an extending concept in relation to “social revolution” and being free of its
axiological content. There is also discussed ...
The purpose of this paper is to present the data of the first in Ukraine sociological research on economic culture of the population conducted by the Department of Economic Sociology (IS NASU) in 2005. The author ...
The main explanatory variables used to analyse the transformation of state socialist
societies are elite circulation and renewal. It is contended that, while the transformation
may be elite led, transformation should be ...
The purpose of this paper is to review the process of formation of the Ukrainian ruling elite and to determine the main stages. The attention is focused mainly on the political elite. Besides, there are mentioned such ...