Author(s) / Editor(s):

 Smakota Viktoria Vitaliivna, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Head of the Department of Economic Sociology, Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

 email: smakvik@ukr.net

 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1916-1034

 Tolstykh Natalia Viktorivna, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Economic Sociology, Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

 email: n_tolstykh@ukr.net

 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4245-9739

 Lukonin Valentyn Valeriyovych, Postgraduate Student, Department of Economic Sociology, Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

 email: lukonval123@gmail.com

 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1099-8340

Year: 2024

Pages: 244–261

Publication language: Ukrainian

Publisher: Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Type of Publication: chapter in edited volume

Publication Place: Kyiv

DOI: TBD

Economic, social and psychological studies show the accumulation and expansion of various crisises in Ukrainian society, the successful overcoming of which is likely possible in the near future. Objective data show that during martial law, the material living conditions of the population of Ukraine significantly worsened due to the curtailment of production in the war zone, the destruction of infrastructure, and limited budget expenditures on the social sphere. The results of sociological surveys indicate that significant part of the Ukrainan population faces problems of providing basic needs on a daily basis time to time, and the large proportion of citizens are deprived of necessities. There is a negative trend of reducing the adaptive resource in the field of employment. Objective external assessments show that negative socio-economic trends have affected both the quality of secondary education and the number of graduates who choose continuing the educational trajectory in Ukraine, and this is another serious threat to future development, the danger of which may be prolonged for decades to come. Ukraine has suffered a significant loss of its human, labor, and humanitarian potential, the scale of which is still impossible to assess today and which will determine the trends of post-war reconstruction and development of the country. Now the task of supporting the social and labor spheres of the state, trying to ensure the work of the sphere of mandatory social support in the most difficult conditions of war and prevent its destruction, is extremely important.

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