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Conceptions of “who is responsible for what” in the family change slowly and unevenly, reflecting deeper social transformations — from changes in the labour market to political crises and war.

We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of the journal “Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing” (2025, No. 4) has been published. Contents: Articles. Casula, Ph. (Fribourg, Switzerland) Old or New?

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published a popular science material by A. P. Horbachyk, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, “Ukrainians oriented towards populism: how many are they and who are they?”. Elements of populism have always been present to a greater or lesser…

A difficult but scientifically fruitful 2025 ended with a forum of the country's sociologists that was warmly received by the research community.

On 12 December specialists of the Research Centre for Humanitarian Problems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and of the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine presented the findings of the study “The interaction of the Defence Forces…

Freedom of speech and media literacy: results of a nationwide survey. Donors, performers and partners. The study was carried out within the partnership between the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine and the National Council…

An interview with the Director of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine, Professor Yevhen Golovakha has been published on YouTube in the programme “Suspilne News”.

Dear colleagues! The Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, the Sociological Association of Ukraine and the N. V. Panina Sociological Centre invite you to take part in the 19th Sociological Readings in memory of N. V. Panina, “Metamorphoses of social…

“Everything is fine in her / his life” — this familiar, extremely concise yet capacious formula conveys well the meaning of a word that takes scholars paragraphs, articles and even whole books to explain: well-being…

The following articles and materials will be published in issue No. 4 of the journal: Philipp Casula. Old or New? Russia's War against Ukraine and Post-Soviet identity politics (submitted in English). The “new wars” paradigm has become…

The volunteer movement is one of the significant phenomena of contemporary Ukrainian society. In 2003 it was officially recognised in Ukraine, when the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Regulation on volunteer activity in…

The collective monograph “Social expectations as a factor in constructing interactions under conditions of social instability” has been published.

We offer you the latest edition of the programme “About Science. Competently”, broadcast on the YouTube channel of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

The collection “Ukrainian society in conditions of polycrisis. Materials of the second sociological readings in memory of V. M. Vorona, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine” has been published.

An exclusive interview with the Director of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor Yevhen Golovakha has been published on the well-known YouTube channel “My Ukraine”.

We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of the journal “Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing” (2025, No. 3) has been published. Contents: Articles. Stehnii, O.

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published a popular science material by S. Yu. Solodko, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, “Decolonisation in Odesa: political narratives and strategies of argument”. Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine…

We offer you an interview with the Director of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, Yevhen Golovakha, for TheUkrainians, on possible lines of division in Ukrainian society, the end of the war and the new elites.

Results of the latest wave of the sociological monitoring survey “Ukrainian Society”. The “Ukrainian Society” monitoring survey has been conducted since 1994.

The well-known Ukrainian magazine Kraina has published an interview with the Director of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine, Professor Yevhen Golovakha.

Over the years of the Russian-Ukrainian war, sociocultural divisions, fractures and splits have not disappeared. Observing the links between Ukraine's linguistic, geopolitical/geocultural and, to a lesser degree, denominational differentiation and…

On the occasion of the 75th birthday of the Director of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine, Professor Yevhen Golovakha, the Misto portal congratulated him, calling him the sociologist “who taught Ukraine to look into…

The Sociological Association of Ukraine, the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine and the N. V. Panina Sociological Centre announce the extension of the 2024 competition. The competition for young sociologists “Best young sociologist of 2024–2025”. The competition is open to…

On 19 September 2025, on the initiative of the Southern Ukrainian branch of the Sociological Association of Ukraine, the research and practice conference “Psychological time in the dimensions of the person, culture and society” was held, dedicated to the anniversary…

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published a popular science material by V. A. Pliushch, PhD, “Assessing the level of media literacy of Ukraine's population under conditions of full-scale war”. Assessing the level of media literacy…

On 5 September, at a meeting of the one-off specialised academic council C5-05-10-2024-2, Yuliia Anatoliivna Hetman defended her dissertation “The institutionalisation of civic and political online activity amid the digitalisation…

An interview with the Director of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has been published on YouTube, the extremely popular video platform and social network, in the programme “Yellow Sneakers with Yuliia Borysko”, which has 173,000…

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published an analytical material by Andrii Bova, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, and Oleksii Bielenok, Research Fellow, “The material situation and institutional support of IDPs and the immobile population: a comparative analysis under…

Our American colleague, a sincere supporter of Ukraine and a native of Kyiv, Mikhail Alexseev, commented on recent diplomatic events for the Los Angeles Times, drawing on data recently collected by the Institute of Sociology of the NAS…

The following articles and materials will be published in issue No. 3 of the journal: Oleksandr Stehnii. Climate security and military activity: a subject-object model of the relationship. On the basis of an interdisciplinary approach, the article examines…

The online platform “Korotko pro” has published an interview with the Director of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine Yevhen Golovakha.

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published a popular science material by Olena Zlobina and Nataliia Soboleva, Doctors of Sociological Sciences.

The interview for The Ukrainian Review covers three themes: 1) the specifics of analysing national resilience from the standpoint of social configurations; 2) changes in Ukrainians' moods over the course of the war; 3) changes in language practices after…

Dear Yevhen Ivanovych! We warmly and sincerely congratulate you — an outstanding Ukrainian psychologist, sociologist and public figure, a scholar well known in this country and far beyond it — on your splendid anniversary, your 75th birthday…

An interview with Yevhen Golovakha, Director of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, Professor, Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine, for Dzerkalo Tyzhnia…

A monograph by the staff of the Institute of Sociology on states of stress during the war has been published in print and in open access.

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published an analytical material by Serhii Dembitskyi, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, “A model of national resilience in the space of social configurations: essays”. According to the conception of securing…

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published an analytical material by Nataliia Tolstykh, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, “Guideposts for reforming the social sphere in Ukraine”. Market transformations in Ukraine were accompanied by a reduction in the state's involvement…

Ukrinform — the Ukrainian national news agency, which publishes some 500 news and analytical items daily in Ukrainian, English, Spanish, German, French, Polish and…

In the fourth year of the great war with Russia, one can come across posts on social media in which Ukrainian men of conscription age speak quite openly about illegally fleeing the country.

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published an analytical material by Serhii Dembitskyi, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, “Studying states of stress under war conditions: key findings”. The empirical findings on states of stress set out below…

We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of the journal “Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing” (2025, No. 2) has been published. Contents: Articles. Kutsenko, O.

On 20 June 2025 the O. V. Palladin Institute of Biochemistry of the NAS of Ukraine hosted the latest meeting of the academy-wide interdisciplinary seminar in the natural sciences, “Current questions of physico-chemical and…

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published an analytical material by Ruslana Moskotina (PhD; Research Fellow of the Sector of Sociological Monitoring of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine; researcher…

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published a popular science material by Serhii Dembitskyi, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, “The background of public opinion over the course of the war”. The changes in public opinion in Ukraine after…

The Belarusian opposition outlet Zerkalo has published an interview with the Director of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor…

The following articles and materials will be published in issue No. 2 of the journal: Olga Kutsenko. Framing War: The Evolution of the Social Perception of war in Ukraine. The study analyses the evolution of the perception of war in Ukrainian society in…

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published a popular science material by Yevhen Siryi, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, “The phenomenon of entrepreneurship: a history of its interpretation and formation”. Enterprising people have always existed: in the civilisations…

Sententiae is a journal of the history of philosophy guided by the principles of open access. Its aim is to foster the development of the widest possible range of contemporary research approaches, their active application in practice and…

Dear colleagues! We invite you to take part in the professional conference of Ukraine's sociologists, which will be held on 30 May 2025. The 22nd International Research and Practice Conference “Problems of the development of sociological theory.

On 29 April 2025 the session of the General Meeting of the Department of History, Philosophy and Law of the NAS of Ukraine was held, devoted to the results of the research work of the Department's institutions in 2024 and to the prospects for developing fundamental and…

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published a popular science material by Svitlana Shevchenko, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, “Ukraine's young people as the flagship of pessimism”. Youth is usually seen as the time when people take the greatest joy…

Under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, the “Bibliographic yearbook of publications 2024” (60 pp.) has been published, presenting the “Main publications of the staff of the Institute…

On 17 April the Institute of Sociology hosted the customary meeting on the problems of training Doctors of Philosophy in the field of “Sociology”. Those taking part in the discussion were: V. S. Bakirov.

The website of the Fastiv city council has published a report with numerous photographs under the title “The outstanding sociologist Yevhen Golovakha visits Fastiv”.

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published a popular science material by Vil Bakirov, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, “Living in a turbulent world”. The phenomenon of social turbulence attracted attention as early as the middle of the last…

We are glad to report that in April 2025 the prestigious German publisher NOMOS brought out the book “Freiheitsschauplatz. Ein Gesellschaftsportrait der Ukraine” (“A theatre of freedom.

We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of the journal “Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing” (2025, No. 1) has been published. Contents: Articles. Dembitskyi, S. (Kyiv), Burova, O. (Kyiv), Hlomozda, D. (Kyiv), Soboleva, N. (Kyiv), Burov, I.

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published an analytical material by Serhii Dembitskyi, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, “Ukrainians' will to resist: psychological vs social factors”. The uniqueness of the Ukrainian situation lies in the fact that…

On 21–22 March Kyiv hosted the Ukrainian-Polish research and practice conference “Social resilience and solidarity during the war: the experience of Ukraine and Poland”.

YouTube has published an interview by the journalist Yuliia Borysko with a person she called a great Ukrainian — and introduced as a sociologist, psychologist and philosopher — the Director of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences…

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published a popular science material by Oleksandr Rakhmanov, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, “The birth, flourishing and decline of oligarchy in Ukraine: a sociologist's view”. The post-communist transformations in…

Dear colleagues! It is with deep sorrow that we report the death at the age of 71 of Yurii Oleksiiovych Pryvalov, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Senior Research Fellow of the Department of Social Expertise of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine…

On 5 March 2025 the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine held the now customary (second) readings dedicated to the memory of Valerii Mykhailovych Vorona, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine.

The following articles and materials will be published in issue No. 1 of the journal: Serhii Dembitskyi, Olha Burova, Dmytro Hlomozda, Natalia Soboleva, Ihor Burov, Iryna Marynich. The effect of states of stress on the values and motivation of Ukrainians during…

Under the auspices of the NAS of Ukraine, the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine and seven other distinguished research institutions, the Institute of Sociology among them, the 6th All-Ukrainian Interdisciplinary Research and Practice Online Conference will be held on 26–28 March 2025 as part of the 16th International Exhibition “Modern Educational Institutions 2025”…

The ageing of the population is the most pronounced demographic trend in developed societies. As of 1 January 2022 the share of people aged 60 and over in Ukraine was 24.8%.

An interview with the Director of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, Corresponding Member of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor Yevhen Golovakha has been published on the YouTube channel of the well-known journalist Ihor Yakovenko.

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published an analytical material by Serhii Dembitskyi, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, “The individual value of power: facets of understanding”. The material set out below is based on the results of a thematic…

The Friedrich Ebert Foundation, established exactly 100 years ago, is Germany's oldest political foundation, committed to such ideals and values as freedom, justice and solidarity.

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published a popular science material by Oleksandr Reznik, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, “Ukrainians' ideological orientations and the prospect of electoral preferences in the post-war period”. In the developed…

We have already reported on the evening held in the Blue Drawing Room of the House of Cinema, at which the leading Ukrainian sociologists Yevhen Golovakha (from the stage) and Volodymyr Paniotto (on video) presented…

Serhii Dembitskyi, Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, has given an interview to Telegraf. What kind of justice is society really short of?

Dear colleagues! We invite everyone interested to take part in an open meeting with the members of the expert group of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance conducting the accreditation review of the educational and research programme for the third…

Dear colleagues! The Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine and its Department of Economic Sociology invite you to take part in the second sociological readings in memory of V. M. Vorona, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine, “Ukrainian society in conditions of polycrisis*”…

The House of Cinema successfully hosted a presentation of books by the leading Ukrainian sociologists Yevhen Golovakha (“Alternative sociology: a dictionary for unofficial use”, Dukh i Litera, 2024) and Volodymyr…

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published an analytical material by Olena Strelnyk, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, “Gender (in)equality under war conditions: challenges and opportunities for Ukrainian society”. All wars affect…

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine announces a competition to fill a vacant research position: Head of the Centre for Sociological Monitoring at the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine. Candidates for the vacant…

The YouTube channel of the well-known political scientist and public figure Ihor Yakovenko, who is in open opposition to the Kremlin and lives in emigration, has published his interview with the Director of the Institute…

Comics in Ukrainian are called “maliopysy” — drawn descriptions. Around the world this is an exceptionally well-developed genre of mass culture that already has its classics and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of published titles over the past almost…