Ukrainian society
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Co. LTD Ukrinformnauka) |
| ISSN | 1681-116X / 2518-735X |
| Wikidata | Q96731513 |
| OpenAlex | S4210178312 |
| MAG | 4210178312 |
| Website | http://www.ukr-socium.org.ua |
| Total publications | 1,145 |
| Coverage period | 2002 - 2026 |
| Country | UA |
| Language | EN |
| Access | Open Access |
| Indexing | DOAJ indexed |
| Cited by | 1 |
| Impact factor | 0.092 |
| h-index | 1 |
This journal focuses on Ukrainian society, primarily from a sociological perspective. As a venue for sociology, especially with a regional focus, it offers regular intersection with social anthropology, particularly cultural and urban sociology
Agriculture Market Analysis Ukraine · Business and Economic Development · Diverse Scientific Research in Ukraine · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Economic and Business Development Strategies · Economic and Technological Developments in Russia · Economic Development and Digital Transformation · Economic Issues in Ukraine · Education and Social Development in Ukraine · Educational Innovations and Challenges
Macroeconomic consequences of prolonged capital flight on sustainable economic growth in Nigeria
This study investigates the dynamic interactions between capital flight and key macroeconomic indicators in Nigeria over the period 1990–2024. Rather than treating capital flight solely as a consequence of macroeconomic instability, the study examines its co-movement with economic growth, domestic investment, inflation, oil prices and exchange rate behaviour. Annual time-series data were analysed using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) fr…
“Digital”, “virtual”, “real”, “physical” complementary components of the modern economy
This article describes the fundamental restructuring of the tools, methods, models, and institutional foundations of the functioning of socio-economic systems, which is taking place as a result of the integration of digital technologies into all spheres of modern society. The author regards the active use of the terms “digital”, “virtual”, and “real” economy is evidence of attention to the research of the processes taking place. At the same time,…
ILO Convention no. 190 on the elimination of violence and harassment in the world of work and approaches to its implementation in the legislation of Ukraine
The study focuses on the problem of violence (physical, psychological, sexual, or economic) and harassment in the workplace, which is a global issue of high relevance. The article pays special attention to the content, structure and impact of the application of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 190 on the Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work. The key provisions of this Convention are indicated, name…
Social factors of organisational changes in enterprises in war conditions
The article analyses the methodological challenges involved in studying the social factors of organisational change at enterprises under wartime conditions. The authors argue that the reality of war not only transforms patterns of organisational behaviour but also reshapes the very logic of power relations, creating a need to rethink classical theoretical and methodological approaches. Based on a critical analysis of neo-institutionalism, structu…
Rethinking social control in a self-service society
This article examines the transformation of social control within a self-service society – a qualitatively new configuration of social order in which the systematic involvement of the individual in the independent provision of services becomes both a structural norm and a normative ideal. The starting point of the study was a dilemma: is the growth of individual autonomy in a self-service society a genuine emancipation from institutional control,…
On the dependence of the nutritional value of agri-food products on soil health
The multifaceted nature of producing ever-increasing volumes of agri-food products and their nutritional value is outlined. The reasons for the decline in nutritional value have been categorised, including advances in plant breeding that focus on size and plant hardiness rather than vitamin and micronutrient content, the spread of industrial crop cultivation technologies that have led to reduced nutrient levels in fruit, and soil degradation and …
Conceptual features of sociological research on the determinants of trust in political institutions in Ukraine
In this analysis the author aims to determine the conceptual features of previously conducted sociological studies of the determinants of trust in political institutions in Ukraine. The conceptions of trust determination of N. Luhmann, E. Giddens, J. Coleman, R. Putnam, F. Fukuyama and P. Sztompka are described. The tendency of their evolution has been identified, which consists in distinguishing various determinants of trust, deepening their int…
Integrated Arope indicator and prospects for its application in Ukraine
The article examines the methodological foundations of the AROPE (At Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion) indicator as one of the key instruments for assessing poverty and social exclusion in the European Union. The study substantiates the need for a multidimensional approach to the analysis of social vulnerability of the population under conditions of increasing socio-economic risks, demographic transformations, and growing inequality. It is det…
Psychotherapy in the locus of the sociological and in the optics of the critical
The article outlines a theoretical and methodological framework for the critical analysis of therapy in sociological optics, serving as a foundation for the development of a comprehensive future research framework. Drawing on the works of M. Foucault, G. Deleuze, F. Guattari, G. Agamben, L. Boltanski, and È. Chiapello, the author proposes the sociological conceptualisation of therapy that goes beyond its conventional understanding as an instrumen…
Institutional imbalances and regulatory gaps of the pension system of Ukraine
The article analyses Ukraine’s pension system with the aim of identifying and assessing institutional imbalances and regulatory gaps that determine its financial instability and low social effectiveness. The author addresses the permanent crisis of the solidarity level of the pension system caused by demographic challenges, the shadowing of the labour market, and institutional inertia in implementing of accumulation mechanisms. It has been establ…
Choosing agent-based modelling as a method of social research
Agent-based modelling (ABM) has gained widespread adoption as a computational method in the social sciences. However, methodological criteria for determining the appropriateness of applying ABM remain insufficiently formulated. This study addresses the problem of (in)appropriate ABM selection, which leads to methodological errors and inefficient resource allocation. The article analyses ABM’s historical development across four phases, from its or…
The formation of an inclusive economy in the context of structural transformations in Ukraine
The article provides a comprehensive analysis of the socio-economic aspects of the development of an inclusive economy in Ukraine in the context of contemporary transformational processes. It examines theoretical approaches to interpreting the concept of “inclusive economy” and substantiates its importance as a tool for ensuring sustainable and balanced socio-economic growth. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of social dimensions of in…
Food vulnerability and agricultural specialisation of countries
The article examines food security in the context of debt dependence and financialisation processes. The authors of the article aimed to identify the associated factors of food vulnerability across countries worldwide and in Ukraine by analysing the relationships between the share of the agricultural sector in GDP, indicators of food accessibility, and debt burden, as well as by assessing the role of financial constraints in shaping threats to fo…
Digest of U-Report surveys
The results of surveys of the innovative youth project U-Report are demonstrated for January – March 2026: decisions regarding hpv vaccination among young people, young people’s plans for the future
Methodological challenges in assessing realisation of the socio-economic potential of livelihood projects in Ukraine during (post-)war period
This article examines the methodological challenges associated with assessing the socio-economic potential of Livelihood projects in (post-)war Ukraine and identifies methods for evaluating their effectiveness. The article notes that, in a narrow sense, Livelihood projects are designed to meet people’s basic needs and overcome acute humanitarian crises. At the same time, the authors emphasise that the objectives of Livelihood projects can be broa…
Erosion of human potential as a factor of Ukraine’s national security weakening
The article substantiates demographic and labour atrophy of human potential erosion and an independent security threat to Ukraine’s national resilience under conditions of prolonged polycrisis and full-scale war. It is demonstrated that demographic losses, labour market distortions, behavioural and cognitive inertia of the population, and the deterioration of biomedical characteristics are not isolated socio-economic risks but rather form a cumul…
Social protection of vulnerability throughout the human life cycle in the context of expanding human development opportunities
This article analyses the impact on human development indicators of the implementation of a key principle of social protection – extending it across the entire human life cycle. The author assesses the level of human development (according to the UN concept) not only by income but also by opportunities for choice: to fulfil one’s potential in education, career and society, as well as to live a long and healthy life. In this context, social protec…
Corporate pension funds in Ukraine
The purpose of this article is to analyse and evaluate current trends in the development of corporate non-state pension funds, which over the last decade have become the main institutional element of the long-term savings system. Under the influence of demographic changes, increased labour mobility and reforms of state PAYG systems, corporate pension funds have become the main form of accumulative pension provision in many countries around the wo…
Configurations of the social environment in the context of quality of life resilience
The article examines the architecture of the social environment as a system-forming factor in the resilience of population’s quality of life from the perspective of socioeconomics. Its key components influencing the social landscape of individuals’ livelihoods are identified: institutional, infrastructural, social capital, cultural-psychological, informational, and security. Particular attention is given to the resilience of quality of life as th…
Refugeeship as a space of educational trajectories for Ukrainian schoolchildren
The article explores the phenomenon of educational adaptation among Ukrainian school-aged refugees who were forced to leave Ukraine due to russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 and relocate to various European Union countries. The research focuses on the educational trajectories of displaced children, analyzed within the broader context of transnational mobility. The study examines the social, cultural, and institutional factors influencing their …
Museums as media
This article conceptualises museums as a distinct form of media. The author tries to examine how contemporary museums are transformed under the pressure of addressing urgent socio-communicative challenges. The study is theoretically founded on the ideas of the Toronto School of Communication, particularly the works of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan. Within this framework, classical museums are interpreted as media transmitting cultural and his…
Human development as a factor of solidarity
The article describes how the problem of maintaining social stability in Ukrainian society during wartime prompts a search for ways to strengthen solidarity, which largely determines this stability. The authors suhhest that one such way could be to expand the conditions for human development, which have been significantly reduced during the war, provided there is a regular connection between this development and solidarity. Therefore, the aim of …
HIV prevalence among the biggest ethnic groups of MSM in Estonia
The article is devoted to the problem of inequality between the largest ethnic groups (Estonians as the majority and Russians as the minority) exacerbarated by Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.The aouthors start with the hypothesis that Ukrainian men who have sex with men (MSM) in Estonia, as a socially and economically vulnerable group, bear a greater burden of HIV infection compared to local MSM. The article aims to compare the prevalence of…
Dynamics of Ukrainians’ trust in political institutions in the context of war (2022–2025)
The article examines the dynamics of Ukrainian citizens’ political trust in political institutions during the full-scale war. The study is based on data from Ukraine’s leading sociological centres: the Razumkov Centre, Centre for Social and Marketing Research “SOCIS”, and the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology. The profound transformation of the political landscape under martial law, creating a unique basis for rethinking theoretical model…
Activity principles of the expansion of archetypics in the system of categories for managing civilisational movement towards the metamodern state
The article examines the features of Ukraine’s civilisational choice and clarifies the urgency of adapting the initially adopted civilisational model to changes caused by the complexity of the challenges of the time at the stage of implementing the coordinate system of the information society, sustainable development, and digitalisation of all spheres of life. In Ukraine’s civilisational movement, the determining role of the harmony of specialisa…
Factors contributing to the rise of nationalistic ideology
The article analyses social and cultural factors of national identity and nationalistic ideology. According to the author, national identity is going to replace the religious one. The decline of religious consciousness brought at the forefront nationality as the key factor of macro – social identity. The cultural and ideological components become the key components of [...]
The jung cult
1The Historical Context of C. G. Jung11Ch. 1The Problem of the Historical Jung13Ch. 2The Fin de Siecle27Ch. 3Freud, Haeckel, and Jung: Naturphilosophie, Evolutionary Biology, and Secular Regeneration40Ch. 4Fin-de-Siecle Occultism and Promises of Rebirth58Ch. 5Volkisch Utopianism and Sun Worship75Ch. 6Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido: Solar Mysticism as Science109Pt. 2Prelude to a Cult: Chronology and Biography139Ch. 7Spirits, Memory Images, and …
Dymamics of citizen’s trust to the President of Ukraine, Primeminister, Verhovna Rada of Ukraine, Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and mass media
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Gender interaction in the new days multi-ethnical society
Inter-ethnical heterosexual marriages are the most significant form of gender interaction in the modern poly-ethnical society. The article provides statistic data on international marriages and analyses factors favourable to this phenomenon
Reflex support to professional growth in the period of transition from adolescent to adult
Based on the analysis of classic age divisions and modern research, the article examines the main contradictions and conflicts of the student age and examines the role of reflexia in the professional growth of the student youth
Problems of development of the Ukrainian youth movement at its current stage
The author attempted to examine the problems in the development of the now days youth movement as a mechanism of implementation of youth policy. The article analyses the three major components of youth movement: institutional (or organisational), regulative (or normative) and communicative (or informational) ones
Ukrainian family in the now days society
The article provides data on the real state, development dynamics and tendencies in the demographic and socio-economic situations of family in the last decade. It identifies acute problems of youth and single families and those with many children in the transition period of the 90s and offers practical solution
The value component in the inter-cultural communication
The article offers the author’s vision of the dynamics, structure and hierarchy of values in the nowadays world. Considering objectivity as one of the major criterion of classification of values, the author examines the hierarchy of generally accepted values in various cultures: western, oriental and Muslim analysing the main differences between value systems of different [...]
Organised criminal groups as an object for sociological analysis
The articale shds light on some spects of sociligical analysis of organized criminal groups. In a situation when reliable statistic data are missing, the role of specific methods of data collection become of great importance. Such methods. Such methods enable the researcher to collect data on crime dynamics,valus, hierarchy and relations of the organised criminal [...]
Social policy as a regulator in relations of social structures and social institutes
This article examines particular characteristics of social policy as a regulator in the social field: subject, object, their inter-relations and main functions. State bodies, political parties, trade unions and nongovernmental organisations are referred to the subjects of social policy in a transition period. There are identified the main and secondary social policy subjects characterised by [...]
Social-pedagogic work as an instrument of social policy
Social-pedagogic work is considered as a mean of social policy, professional activity and important social mission. This work is being conducted by social pedagogue and social worker who have a range professional functions and meet certain professional requirements
Transformation of values in Ukrainian society
Studying the values of Ukrainian society in the end of the first decade of the Ukraine independence clearly demonstrates that such “eternal” values as family, job, friends are still in existence and even have a new content. In the context of rapid transition family serves as a “supporting” environment and safe shelter. The value of [...]
Dynamics of electoral orientations and pre-election projections
The article examines methodological and methodical issues of studying electoral orientations and projecting election results. It presents the data obtained within pre-election surveys conducted by the Institute for Social Research and the Social Monitoring Centre throughout the election campaign in 2002 in Ukraine as well as sociological projections and the results obtained within the exit poll conducted in the day of election
Employment and living standards of the population
This material explores the sophisticated and contradicting inter-relations between two indicators of Ukrainian society: the level of productive employment and life quality. The main causes for the decline in living standards in Ukraine are identified as family and hidden unemployment, the growth of shadow sector, decline in wages as cost of labour, and inadequate professional [...]
Estranged labour as factor of formation of labour mentality
Analysing the issue of estranged labour, the author sees “labour mentality” as being formed by a number of determinants. These are the level of socio-economic development; sociodemographic status and socio-psychological characteristics of the population; and individual’s potential for creative work. The problem of estranged labour is seen as an important issue in the formation of [...]
State youth policy as 54a phenomenon of social development and a new paradigm of state making in transition countries
The article deals with the main characteristics of the state youth policy; analyses its state and influence on the state making processes in the transition states. The author offers practical improvements for the main principles of development and implementation of the youth policy in Ukraine
Family children’s homes as an effective care for orphans and children out of parental care
The article seeks to generalize the experience to family children’s homes that are seen as a social institutions called to provide an effective care for orphans and children deprived of parental environment. The focus is put on the routine practices of family children’s homes, the most common problems they face and the needs of children [...]
The first census in Ukraine as an indicator for the government’s capacity to implement its agenda
The article reviews the administrative, legal, social and psychological aspects of the first Ukrainian census in 2001 with the special focus on the role of Ukrainian government as the initiator of the census. It analyses the role of interview and outlines the lessons learn in order to avoid some mistakes in the future second census
The situation with child protection from abuse and violence of all forms
The article examines the problems related to the protection of children from abuse and violence. The legislation in the field is analyzed. There are reviewed the existing interventions for child abuse prevention and rehabilitation of victims. The article analyses the children’s perceptions of the abuse problem and offers some solution in order to ensure the [...]
Income differential
The process of income polarization that Ukrainian society currently undergoes has become a subject of inter-disciplinary studies. Analyzing the deepening gap in income, social scientists use various approaches of measuring the economic potential of different social groups, in particular the level of income as the decisive factor of their socio-economic status. The article outlines the [...]
Disability as a social problem of the contemporary Ukrainian society
The article is based on the data obtained from the research projects conducted by the State Institute for Family and Youth, and the Ukrainian Institute for Social Research throughout 1999 – 2003 and highlights the issue of disability as one of the major social problems of the contemporary Ukraine. The article attempts to project the [...]
The role of enlightenment and public organizations in the late 90th – early 20th centuries with regard to prevention of children’s homeless and neglect
The article provides a historical and pedagogical overview of enlightenment and public organizations in the late nineteenth – early twentieth centuries in Ukraine providing care and support to homeless children of pre-school and early school age
Political responsibility of the government in a democratic state
The article demonstrates the objective character of political responsibility and indicates the contradictory character of the relevant materials in the research literature. The author’s vision of the political responsibility is presented. The article stresses the inter-relations between political responsibility and juridical responsibility, and provides a comparative review of the mechanism for implementation of political responsibility [...]
The initiation and development of youth families in Ukraine
The data obtained from a recent comprehensive study highlighted some acute problems of the youth families in Ukraine. The article provides an overview of youth attitudes and readiness to family life in the context of the expansion of common law marriages in Ukraine. The article analyses the situation with a causes of youth divorces, the [...]
Youth subculture
The article presents the data obtained from a pilot study on youth values and cultural demands. It attempts to analyze the phenomenon of youth subculture, stressing its significance for young people and society in general