Pylypenko Valeriy Evgenovych

In 1982 V. Ye. Pylypenko graduated from the faculty of philosophy (department of psychology) of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University. In 1988, at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, he defended a candidate’s dissertation on «The social effectiveness of improving the collective character of labour». His doctoral dissertation on «The social regulation of labour behaviour» was defended in 1994 at the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine. V. Ye. Pylypenko worked at the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine from the time of its creation (in 1990). His research interests were: economic sociology, the sociology of youth, social psychology, the sociology of politics, and the theory, methodology and techniques of sociological research. V. Ye. Pylypenko was the academic editor and author of the first textbooks in Ukraine «Economic sociology» (Kyiv, 1997, 2002) and «Special and branch sociologies» (Kyiv, 2003, 2007), and a member of the editorial boards of the following journals and collections: «Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing», «Bulletin of Odesa National University», «State. Society. Army», «Scholarly Notes of the Kyiv National Economic University», «Bulletin of the Academy of Labour and Social Relations of the Academy of Trade Unions of Ukraine», «The Labour Market and Employment of the Population». He was a member of the specialised academic councils for the defence of doctoral dissertations at the Institute of Sociology and the Institute of Philosophy of the NAS of Ukraine, and head of the research committee of the Sociological Association of Ukraine on economic sociology, the sociology of labour and management.