Biography
Education:
Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University, faculty of philosophy (1976).
Academic degrees and titles:
Laureate of the State Prize in Science and Technology, 2014
Professor (social structures and social relations), 2002
Doctor of Sociological Sciences (speciality - social structures and social relations), Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, 1991.
Candidate of Philosophical Sciences (speciality - applied sociology), Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, 1982.
Professional experience:
37 years of academic and teaching experience, including at the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine from the day of its founding in 1991. Head of the department of social structures (1999-2021), deputy director for research (2021-2023).
Research interests:
Problems of the dynamics of the structure of society, trends of social stratification, the directions and scale of social mobility.
Participation in qualification boards, research-organisational and expert work:
Deputy head of the specialised academic council for conferring the degree of Doctor of Sciences at the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine.
Member of the editorial board of the journals: "Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing".
Languages:
Russian, Ukrainian, English, Polish.
Projects
Factors, direction and intensity of change in the social structure of generations
2021 – 2023 · Principal investigator
Global trends and local features in the reproduction of social inequality
2018 – 2020 · Principal investigator
The innovative and adaptive potential of the everyday-life structures of different population categories in a society in crisis
2015 – 2017 · Principal investigator
Social stratification in Ukraine in global and local perspective
2009 – 2012 · Principal investigator
Continuity and change in the transformations of social structure
2006 – 2009 · Principal investigator
The legitimation and institutionalisation of new social inequalities
2004 – 2006 · Principal investigator
Trends in the formation and transformation of social institutions
2001 – 2004 · Principal investigator
Status and occupational identities: destruction and construction
1998 – 2001 · Principal investigator
Contemporary trends of social mobility in Ukrainian society
1995 – 1998 · Principal investigator
The prestige and attractiveness of occupations for different population groups and the prospects for staffing the branches of Ukraine's economy
1995 · Principal investigator
A study of the trends and mechanisms of social differentiation and stratification
1992 – 1995 · Principal investigator
Selected publications
Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The country's leading sociology research institution, founded in 1990.