Educational and research programme
The educational and research programme “Sociology”, under which third-cycle (educational and research) higher education is provided for candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in speciality “054 Sociology”, was developed in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On higher education” and the “Procedure for training holders of the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Sciences at higher education institutions (research institutions)”, approved by Resolution No. 266 of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 23 March 2016.
The current version of the programme was developed by a working group comprising:
Head of the project group:
- O. G. Zlobina, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Social Psychology
Members of the project group:
- L. G. Skokova, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor, Leading Researcher at the Department of Sociology of Culture and Mass Communication
- G. I. Chepurko, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Senior Researcher, Head of the Department of Social Expertise
- N. I. Sobolieva, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Senior Researcher, Leading Researcher at the Department of Social Psychology
- N. B. Otreshko, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor, Leading Researcher at the Department of History and Theory of Sociology
- O. V. Simonchuk, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Social Structures
- V. A. Pliushch, Doctor of Philosophy (speciality 054 Sociology), Junior Researcher at the Department of Social Expertise
Programme guarantor:
- Olena Genadiivna Zlobina, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Social Psychology
The programme runs for four years.
The taught component amounts to 40 ECTS credits; its courses encourage active work on the dissertation research and build the ability to plan and carry it out and to present its results in Ukrainian and in English. The research component provides for the doctoral student to conduct their own study under the guidance of a supervisor and to present its results as a dissertation.
Since the licence was granted in 2016 the programme has been improved continuously. Its evolution can be traced by comparing the successive versions.
The programme currently lets students build an individual learning path from 8 compulsory and 13 elective course components, whose syllabuses are listed below
Compulsory course components
- Foreign language for professional purposes: preparing doctoral students to level C1*
- Methodology, organisation and technology of scientific research
- Developing the dissertation project
- Theoretical interpretation of the basic concepts and working notions of sociological research
- Theoretical and methodological problems of socio-structural and socio-cultural analysis of contemporary societies
- Doctoral research seminar
- Teaching methods for sociological disciplines
- Teaching assistantship practice**
Elective course components
- Sociology of civil society
- Social stratification and inequalities: main approaches in empirical research
- Current research in contemporary global and Ukrainian economic sociology
- Societal transformations in the coordinates of personal subjectivity
- Countering manipulative technologies
- Data analysis in the R environment
- Contemporary media studies: theories, methods, prospects
- Academic writing in English
- Sociology of subjective reality
- The internet as a resource for democratising contemporary Ukrainian society
- Life comfort under urbanisation
- Validation in sociological research: essence and procedures
- Sustainable development in the contemporary world: key social and economic indicators
After completing the curriculum in full, doctoral students sit
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National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The country's leading sociology research institution, founded in 1990.