Burlachuk Viktor Fokich

In 1976 he graduated from the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University with the speciality «philosopher, lecturer in philosophical disciplines». In 1986 he defended the candidate’s dissertation «On the structure of philosophical knowledge. An attempt at analysing the philosophical system of I. Kant» and became a Candidate of Philosophical Sciences. In 2005, at the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, he defended a doctoral dissertation on «Symbolic systems and the constitution of social meaning», receiving the degree of Doctor of Sociological Sciences in speciality 22.00.01 – theory and history of sociology. He has worked at the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine since 1991. He is currently a leading research fellow of the department of history and theory of sociology. Member of the Academic Council of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine.

Research interests : theory and history of sociology, the sociology of art, the sociology of fashion.