Department of Sociology of Culture and Mass Communication
About the unit
The Department of Sociology of Culture and Mass Communication has existed since the establishment of the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 1990, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor Anatoliy Oleksandrovych Ruchka became the first head of the department. From 2007 to 2026, the department was headed by Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor Nataliia Viktorivna Kostenko. The department's researchers conduct comprehensive studies of cultural processes in Ukrainian society, employing quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method strategies for sociological data analysis. The focus of attention includes, in particular, the problems of reproducing and transforming values, meanings, and sociocultural identities, as well as the factors and mechanisms of civic cultural participation and the influence of media in contemporary society. Special attention is paid to studying the shifts in the cultural orders of Ukrainian society under emergency conditions and martial law.
Research directions
Sociocultural development, quantitative and qualitative analysis.
Members
Research projects
Changes and reproduction of cultural orders of Ukrainian society in war and post-war states: factors, mechanisms, prospects
Principal investigator — Kostenko Nataliia Viktorivna
Production and transformation of cultural identities in Ukrainian society: semantic orientations and mechanisms of legitimation
Principal investigator — Kostenko Nataliia Viktorivna
Published from this project
Systemic risks of an unstable society: poverty, social tension, and cultural involution
Principal investigator — Skokova Lyudmila Georgiivna
Researchers — Chepurko Gulbarshyn Iskakivna
Published from this project
Values and value changes in contemporary Ukrainian society: factors, mechanisms, and prospects
Principal investigator — Kostenko Nataliia Viktorivna
Published from this project
Participation of Ukrainian citizens in culture: value-based orientations and modern practices
Principal investigator — Kostenko Nataliia Viktorivna
Published from this project
The dynamics of socio-cultural processes in Ukrainian society
Principal investigator — Kostenko Nataliia Viktorivna
Socio-cultural dynamics are treated as the interaction of the processes, states and outcomes of cultural reproduction and cultural mobility, which combine into distinctive types with respect to changes in the value-symbolic environment, the intangible resources of society, cultural production, and the participation of Ukrainian citizens in culture and cultural practices.
The production and transmission of meanings in a multicultural society
Principal investigator — Kostenko Nataliia Viktorivna
Published from this project
Subcultures of contemporary Ukraine: features, reproduction, accommodation
Principal investigator — Ruchka Anatolii Oleksandrovich
Mass media as a source of the political, civic and cultural orientations of the population during the democratic transition
Principal investigator — Ruchka Anatolii Oleksandrovich
The socio-cultural differentiation of contemporary Ukrainian society: criteria, mechanisms, consequences
Principal investigator — Ruchka Anatolii Oleksandrovich
The legitimation of identities in the multicultural space of contemporary society
Principal investigator — Ruchka Anatolii Oleksandrovich
The formation of the cultural and communicative orientations of Ukraine's population under the systemic transformation of society
Principal investigator — Ruchka Anatolii Oleksandrovich
Selected publications
Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The country's leading sociology research institution, founded in 1990.