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{"title":"Sociological archetypology: analysis of theoretical and methodological principles and postmodern practices in Ukraine","authors":"N. Hordiienko","doi":"10.15407/socium2022.02.032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15407/socium2022.02.032","url":null,"abstract":"The author substantiates conceptual and methodological principles based on a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical and scientific status of sociological archetypology within the system of modern socio-humanitarian knowledge. These principles are represented in the conceptual system comprising the following central provisions: general orientation of scientific research in the area of sociological archetypology on society as a collective subject, whose vital activity at the implicit level of the collective unconscious is primarily determined by archetypes; the dialectic character of transformations within conceptual and methodological foundations of sociological archetypology through the integration of new components, among which the most significant innovative potential is displayed by the concept of G. Durand involving the need to update the traditional methodology (in particular, through substantiation of methodological psychology and the method of convergence) and introduce into the research discourse additional archetypal symbols (theriomorphic, nyctomorphic, catamorphic, diaeretic, inversion, light-visual and cyclic symbols); methodological parity of ontological and epistemological functions of archetypes; and methodological revision of key concepts and ideas of sociological archetypology from the standpoint of contemporary postmodern sociology, characterized by the actualization of research interest in traditional culture at a new theoretical level (M. Maffesoli). The paper explains theoretical and interpretive trends of modern sociological archetypes, among which the leading ones are the following: polysemy of “archetype” as a concept and debatable interpretation of its definition markers; broad functionality of the concept “archetype”, which represents the trend of research interest actualization in traditional culture; intensification of the national researchers’ interest in deep archetypal foundations of the Ukrainian culture and mentality and in sociological analysis of modernity, mainly to diagnose transformational changes in Ukrainian consciousness and study the psycho-social foundations of contemporary postmodern civilizational identity, which reflects the theoretical continuity of traditional and postmodern interpretation of the essence of the archetype, starting with the Jungian conceptual paradigm; the promotion in the scientific publications of an analytical approach based on the understanding the archetype as the name of a particular type of personality in personology.","PeriodicalId":436487,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Society","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130264859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Archetypics of the multipolar world: from war to peace","authors":"E. Afonin, A. Martynov","doi":"10.15407/socium2022.02.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15407/socium2022.02.015","url":null,"abstract":"The authors used archetypal methodology to analyse the problem of the international relations multipolar system formation, which occurs against the background of full-scale armed aggression by Russia against Ukraine. Emphasis is placed on the phenomenon of security as a prerequisite for individual and collective activity, which is the keeper of the world history evolution, and knows various systems of international relations, their classification and typology: unipolar, bipolar, and multipolar. It is noted that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia for an extended period, cultivated resentment about the American-centric world because of the Soviet defeat in the Cold War. According to the authors, the latter manifests the war of identities if we understand it as a hierarchy of values. Thus, the process of social change in the consciousness of Ukrainian society, which dates to the Orange Revolution (2004), is essentially a recreation of the preconditions of the former Cold War. According to the author’s monitoring (1992–2022), it was then that substantial changes took place in the self-consciousness of Ukrainians: collectivist values gave way to individualist self-consciousness, resulting in radical institutional changes in society. However, unrealised public expectations in general for literally one (2005) year catalysed public consciousness in the inversion and pathopsychological state, which manifested itself in the phenomenon of “nonconformism” of the “Revolution of Dignity” (2013–2014). Significantly strengthened the pathopsychological state of environmental and reform factors influence. The Russian-Ukrainian war (2014–2022) became the final chord of the social transformation of the public consciousness of Ukrainian society. At the same time, the completion of transformational changes in Ukraine after the war, according to the authors, will coincide with the world’s transition to a postmodern multipolar system of international relations. Moreover, suppose a block approach to national security characterises the modern approach, then in the postmodern conditions. In this case the international security system will be built by combining the hierarchical and network properties of the new – multipolar international system. At the same time, the main issues will remain control over communications, sources of raw materials and technology. The postmodern multipolar system of international relations will consist of several hierarchical structures. The post-Yeltsin system of international relations will occur under challenging conditions of “multipolar confrontation” in an interconnected world. The factor of the interdependence of the multipolar international structure inspires optimism in the conditions of the new postmodern international imperative: “unity of the world in its diversity”, which considers the socio-cultural specifics of our country and embraces the national interests of Independent Ukraine.","PeriodicalId":436487,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Society","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132997883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The problem of sustainable development in a crisis and place for issues of mentality and archetypics in it","authors":"A. Makarenko","doi":"10.15407/socium2022.02.100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15407/socium2022.02.100","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines the consideration of the problem of sustainable development in crises (including in the war and the postwar period). It evaluates how sustainable development research is changing and what tools modifications are needed for mathematical modelling these processes in this case. The author considers the examples of possible transformation of such problems in current conditions. The proposed research is based on the previous work of the authors on sustainable development, modelling of social and economic systems, and problems in education and science. In particular, the possibility of applying models from the class of ordinary differential equations, their systems, cellular automata, neural networks, multiagent systems, system dynamics and network theory, various databases and geographic information systems is emphasized. The approach’s main feature is to consider the possibility of formalizing the proposed sustainable development tasks, especially in crisis conditions. As a result of research and development, new knowledge was gained about the relevant processes, problem statements and the choice of mathematical models and methods for their study. The offered research and developments will help to consider specific tasks of sustainable development of functioning of Ukraine, including functions of education and science and many other things. Such research will help ensure the sustainable development of Ukraine in light of the conditions of war. Among the sections of the concept of sustainable development, an important place is taken by the influence of the role and impact of the human factor on the behaviour of large social systems. This can be addressed as conditionally questions of mentality. Among them, archetypal issues are essential. The archetype can be conditionally called the field of research, which considers the deep structures of consciousness, their stability and possible changes. In times of crisis, investigation into the influence of mental constructions and their possible changes is becoming increasingly important.","PeriodicalId":436487,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Society","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127270752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transgender people in Ukraine – the communities within the community (the results of the expert survey)","authors":"M. Kasianczuk, O. Trofymenko, S. P. Sheremet","doi":"10.15407/socium2022.01.099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15407/socium2022.01.099","url":null,"abstract":"Transgender people, being stigmatized, discriminated against, abused, and having less access to social, health, and public health services appear to be a hard-to-reach group for researchers. Thus, with very few opportunities for research, especially representative ones, it is challenging to plan high-quality and effective interventions that would help overcome stigma and discrimination as well as prevent violence against this group. The methods used to recruit respondents from hard-to-reach groups to assume that less visible subgroups can be accessed through the available, more visible ones. Still, the data presented in this article indicate the incoherence of social networks of trans- and non-binary people due to the stigma and discrimination. The main empirical findings aimed to describe the instability of the social ties within a group of transgender and non-binary people, probable explanations for the causes of this instability, and the main lines of the community fragmentation. Personal traumatic experiences of transgender people and the dispersion of the community also affect its weak involvement in civic activities. The paper dwells upon a phenomenon that is argotically called “stealth”: a transgender person in a particular time, having achieved the desired result in transgender transition, distances themself from the community, striving to live an everyday life in society in a new gender. Accordingly, such people lose all or most of their social ties with other transgender and/or non-binary people and are inaccessible both to the research aimed at this specific group and to various social programs. Based on the material used in this article, we can discuss the lack of a single community of transgender and non-binary people in Ukraine and the need to use this term about transgender and non-binary people in the plural, not singular, because each subgroup of trans- and non-binary people, is a separate community. At the same time, the existing forms of stable connections are described, such as public organizations, networks of fictitious kinship, etc. This article will be helpful for researchers, as well as project managers whose attention is focused on transgender and non-binary people in Ukraine.","PeriodicalId":436487,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Society","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114828055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Imposition of martial law and its consequences for Ukrainian capital markets","authors":"S. Shyshkov","doi":"10.15407/socium2022.01.063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15407/socium2022.01.063","url":null,"abstract":"The paper dwells upon peculiarities of regulation of financial services markets in Ukraine, considering the state regulators’ redistribution of powers. It was revealed that significant factors of positive perception of the regulation quality and efficiency of markets are operational reliability, flexibility, publicity, information activity, the efficiency of response to external challenges, predictability of actions to implement restrictions and liberalization. The author established that significant risks to the integrity of capital markets are associated with the operational capacity of financial institutions and financial infrastructure entities, and the regulator. The paper states that the total cessation of financial instruments and transactions can be considered justified only for a short and predictable period to minimize the influence of residents of the aggressor state, which in current conditions does not require significant technological difficulties, but only the political will of the regulator. It is substantiated that the permission to circulate only a small share of government securities (military bonds) is insufficient for investment activities, diversification of portfolios of financial institutions and meeting the population’s demand, which in the following conditions can invest in assets devoid of regulatory restrictions or outside the available legal field. The paper discusses the validity of the grounds for termination of government bonds circulation in martial law and mechanisms to minimize the relevant risks of the state and the interests of government bond owners to prevent panic fall in domestic government prices. The author summarized the consequences of long-term restrictions on the circulation of financial instruments and activities of institutional investors for capital markets and specific sectors of the economy, including construction.","PeriodicalId":436487,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Society","volume":"17 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114017187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Practical approaches to ensuring outcomes consistency of the international technical assistance programs in Ukraine","authors":"A. Nahornyi","doi":"10.15407/socium2022.01.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15407/socium2022.01.009","url":null,"abstract":"Based on more than ten years of author’s experience in international technical assistance programs, the paper considers the problem of ensuring the sustainability of their outcomes. The author substantiates the position that international technical assistance in Ukraine significantly helps the development and modernisation of certain social spheres. However, effectiveness may vary depending on specific projects/programs and specific project teams. In addition, the author argues that international technical assistance in Ukraine requires greater coordination from the government and the direct participation of representatives of relevant ministries to be able to scale, monitor and evaluate effectiveness. The article provides an example of a specific local development tool proposed and tested over the six years of the USAID/DOBRE Program that can be scaled up at the national level. Experts’ attention may be drawn to the classification of factors that hinder the sustainability of international technical assistance programs/projects in Ukraine regarding aid recipients, donor organisations and the state. The author analysed the positions of Ukrainian scientists and the international donor organisations’ approaches on the content of the concept: outcomes sustainability of international technical assistance programs and investigated the criteria for determining their effectiveness. The concept of “The phenomenon of the financial absolutism illusion” was discovered and introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The author also outlined the socio-psychological barriers that prevent Ukrainian communities from reaping the full benefits of local development instruments provided by donor countries. In addition, the author proposed some practical measures that will optimise the process of providing international technical assistance in Ukraine.","PeriodicalId":436487,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Society","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126636770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"War in Ukraine: population perception and its impact on the quality of life","authors":"O. Balakireva, D. Dmytruk","doi":"10.15407/socium2022.01.116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15407/socium2022.01.116","url":null,"abstract":"The authors analyse internal and external migration, psychological reserves, and the Ukrainian population’s sense of support based on the results of national survey. The paper dwells upon theprovision of assistance to defenders and the perception of the victory prospects. The level of trust in the President of Ukraine has been determined.","PeriodicalId":436487,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Society","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123599715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The research on public activists’ values under the conditions of current transformations in Ukraine","authors":"A. V. Rus-Poltavskaya","doi":"10.15407/socium2022.01.026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15407/socium2022.01.026","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the research results on the values of the members of the public movement “Centres for Civic Initiatives” (CCI). The research was conducted in the fall of 2021. The activities of these CCI are done through the self-organisation of citizens at the local level. The activists themselves identify socially significant issues, set goals, and their implementation. This is the most branched public organisation with its centres throughout Ukraine. The research geography covers all regions of Ukraine (10 regions and the city of Kyiv). Research in such public organisations (scale, self-organisation, self-sufficiency) has not been previously conducted. This is the uniqueness of this study. In this research, it was assumed that the respondents selected for the survey (leaders and ordinary members of the organisation) are the most conscious and decisive part of Ukrainians, who, by their actions, claim to solve complex problems of social construction in the context of the general socio-economic crisis. Therefore, they were chosen as information providers for the issues under study. The study was conducted based on M. Rokeach’s methodology (list of terminal and instrumental values). The study shows the hierarchy of respondents’ values. Most of the members of the public movement “Centres for Civic Initiatives” believe that the value system is the moral norms and priorities of the individual, which serve as a motivating factor in their lives. According to respondents, the top ten values include the following: health, material well-being, family, love, life wisdom, responsibility, efficiency in business, honesty, responsiveness, and cheerfulness. The study focuses on the fact that such public organisations as CCI, which are considered here, are necessary for the conditions of global socio-economic transformations since their activities are aimed at protecting the interests of the country and individual groups of citizens; these activities are of practical importance and produce socially significant results at the local level. The study highlights that to implement of socially significant tasks, suprapersonal rather than individual values must dominate a person participating in social activities. The researcher puts forward a working hypothesis: among civic activists, suprapersonal values (responsibility, responsiveness, happiness of others) dominate over individual ones. The article gives definitions of the concepts “system of values”, and “suprapersonal values”. This study was carried out in order to determine the dominant values of socially active citizens of Ukraine – the members of the CCI in the context of global socio-economic transformations.","PeriodicalId":436487,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Society","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127049736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inflationary consequences of the coronavirus crisis and the reaction of central banks","authors":"O. Bereslavska","doi":"10.15407/socium2022.01.087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15407/socium2022.01.087","url":null,"abstract":"Economic and financial crises are accompanied by rising inflation, especially in developing economies. The economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and resulted in a deep recession in the world and national economies, was no exception. To restore economic growth, the country’s central banks have developed and implemented monetary easing programs, which has provoked a trend of accelerating inflation. Inflation is considered a negative phenomenon, and its high level is a threat to economic growth. Realizing the devastating effects of inflation, states take measures to control their growth rate. The most common in the world is the establishment of inflation targeting. The international practice has shown the effectiveness of this regime for many years. Even during the financial and economic crisis of 2007–2008 and the debt crisis of 2012, inflation was low in the developed world, despite the implementation by the Central Banks of monetary programs for quantitative easing. The crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has become one of the deepest in modern history. To overcome the recession and recover quickly, the Central Banks resumed monetary easing programs on a much larger scale. Implementing these programs has resulted in rising inflation in both developed countries and those developing and transforming their economies. At the same time, inflation has reached values not seen in the last 10 years in developed countries. A significant contribution to provoking inflation is the rise in food prices, which occurred due to increased demand after the lockdown and higher energy prices. The increase in food prices in Ukraine made a particularly significant contribution to inflation compared to the introduction of the NBU’s monetary program. The trend of accelerating inflation causes the Central Banks to respond to it by adjusting their interest rates. However, interest rates have not risen in all countries, but only in those where the economy is less intense, and the financial sector is more vulnerable. As inflation rates in almost all countries exceeded the set inflation targets, discussions began on whether to change the target value or the inexpediency of the inflation targeting regime itself and return to exchange rate control. The article presents arguments for the inexpediency of such measures. The conclusion is substantiated that the monetary policy and its implementation is a complex process, and every time the Central Banks are faced with a choice of contradictory decisions.","PeriodicalId":436487,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Society","volume":"87 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120865602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Religious minorities in Ukraine: current issues","authors":"N. Pyvovarova, V. Tytarenko, L. Fylypovych","doi":"10.15407/socium2022.01.043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15407/socium2022.01.043","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the results of a sociological study on the main issues relevant to religious minorities in modern Ukraine. The main ones are legal aspects related to legislation, state registration, acquiring the status of a legal entity, obtaining or acquiring land for use or construction of a religious building, etc. Among other pressing problems faced by religious minorities in their lives and activities are social, humanitarian (including educational), and economic (property, financial). Respondents – believers representing religious minorities reported violations of the right to provide for the religious needs of believers during military service (in particular, chaplaincy); harassment in the exercise of the right to participate in charitable activities (including volunteering, in particular, to work with at-risk groups – people with drug and alcohol addictions, former prisoners, etc.); difficulties with the exercise of the right to acquire and use religious objects, in particular, the restriction of the “permissible” list of objects to be imported by Christian, mostly Orthodox, tradition; violation of the right of believers representing religious minorities to self-expression and/or prejudice of the public and/or denial of employment due to the appearance of believers, under the requirements of the faith; presentation of unverified or biased information about religious minorities in the media as a source of negative public opinion concerning religious minorities. The article concludes that the state policy in the religious sphere on religious minorities is insufficiently developed, which slows down the process of Ukraine’s integration into the European international community and strengthens the marginalization of religious minorities. Moreover, the realization of the rights and freedoms of religious minorities requires the cooperation of experts, civil servants, the media, and believers of religious minorities.","PeriodicalId":436487,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Society","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128706192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}