Metamorfozy ukrainskoho suspilstva (Метаморфози українського суспільства, “Metamorphoses of Ukrainian society”)

Mykola Oleksandrovych Shulga. — Kyiv: Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, 2003. — 261 pp.

Interviews of the author to newspapers, magazines and radio stations, as well as his journal and newspaper articles for ten years — 1993–2003 — are collected into the book. The materials are grouped into six subtopics. The first one deals with general issues of statehood building, selection of priorities in internal policy, geopolitical directions of foreign policy, issues of citizenship. The second chapter is devoted to the problems of interethnic and interreligious relations, development of the state policy on national minorities. The third chapter covers the issues of language policy and presents the author's views on the status of the Russian language. The materials where the role of sociological studies in parliamentary and presidential elections is discussed are presented in the fourth chapter. The fifth chapter comprises articles and interviews where the process of social stratification is analysed. The last chapter discusses the social role of sociology and the problems of Ukrainian science as a whole.

The book is addressed to sociologists, political and ethnical scientists, and all those interested in the changes in Ukrainian society in the times of independence.