Ruchka Anatolii Oleksandrovich

Anatolii Oleksandrovych RUCHKA (born 20 January 1940, Temriuk, Krasnodar krai, RSFSR) – a Ukrainian sociologist, a spe­cialist in the history, theory and methodology of sociology. He graduated from the faculty of philosophy of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University (1967) and from the postgraduate programme of the Insti­tute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; he worked as a junior, senior and leading research fellow of that Institute (1971–1990). He defended a candi­date’s dissertation (1971) and a doctoral dissertation in the speciality “applied sociology” (1990).

From the creation of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine he headed its department of the sociology of culture and mass communication in 1991–2006. In 1998–2001 he was deputy director of the Institute for research. He works at the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine as a chief research fellow. Academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Political Sciences (1994), professor (2000), honorary doctor of the International Personnel Academy (2000), laureate of the M. S. Hrushevskyi Prize of the Presidium of the NAS of Ukraine for a series of scholarly works in sociology (2001). Member of the editorial boards of jour­nals and collections of scholarly works: «Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing», «Bulletin of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Sociology. Psychology. Pedagogy», «Bulletin of the University of Lviv. Sociological series» and others. He teaches actively at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts and other higher education institutions. He is a member of the specialised councils for the defence of doctoral dissertations of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine and of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. He has supervised and acted as academic consultant for more than 10 doctoral and candidate’s dissertations on problems of sociology.

A. O. Ruchka is one of the leading Ukrainian sociologists, who stood at the origins of the formation of sociology as an academic discipline in Ukraine and has worked in this field since 1967. His research interests are: the history and theory of sociology; the sociology of culture; socio-cultural analysis; the problems of values, the sociology of democracy; media studies. A. Ruchka is the founder of the axiological direction in contemporary Ukrainian sociology. He is the author, co-author and academic editor of about 20 books and 200 articles on various problems of sociology. These are textbooks, numerous monographs, and articles in journals and academic collections published in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary.