In April 2012 the Department of the History, Theory and Methodology of Sociology was reorganised and divided into two separate departments. The Department's researchers continue the work begun by the well-known Ukrainian sociologist and methodologist Nataliia Viktorivna Panina on systems of statistical indicators (indices) for use in large-scale social monitoring.
Research directions
study of the methodological bases for monitoring surveys at the regional, national and international levelsdevelopment of theoretical and methodological principles for research on present-day social phenomenastudy of the methodological principles for carrying out comparative studiesvalidation of measurement scales used in sociological studiesadaptation of existing measuring instruments and development of new ones for public opinion surveys in a transforming society
Ukrainian Society During Wartime: Grassroots Resilience as a Mechanism for Social Transformation — Ivashchenko Kateryna Valeriivna, Lyubyva Tetyana Yaroslavivna · Springer Nature Switzerland · Cham · 2026 · 10.1007/978-3-031-97841-8
Pokaznyky suspilnykh zmin v Ukraini: metodolohiia ta instrumentarii doslidzhen: monohrafiia (Показники суспільних змін в Україні: методологія та інструментарій досліджень: монографія, “Indicators of social change in Ukraine: methodology and research instruments. A monograph”) — Bakirov Vil Savbanovych, Golovakha Ievgenii Ivanovich · Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine · Kyiv · 2026
Kompleksni vymiriuvalni instrumenty v sotsiolohichnykh doslidzhenniakh: rozroblennia, adaptatsiia, obgruntuvannia dostovirnosti (Комплексні вимірювальні інструменти в соціологічних дослідженнях: розроблення, адаптація, обґрунтування достовірності, “Composite measurement instruments in sociological research: development, adaptation, validation”) — YE. Holovakha, S. Dembitskyi, N. Panina ta in.; za nauk. red. YE. Holovakhy ta S. Dembitskoho · Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine · Kyiv · 2022 · full text
Hlobalni ta lokalni kryzy: pereosmysliuiuchy ukrainske suspilstvo. Materialy Mizhnarodnykh sotsiolohichnykh chytan pamiati N. V. Paninoi (Глобальні та локальні кризи: переосмислюючи українське суспільство. Матеріали Міжнародних соціологічних читань пам’яті Н. В. Паніної, “Global and local crises: rethinking Ukrainian society. Proceedings of the International Sociological Readings in memory of N. V. Panina”) — Za nauk. red. YE.I. Holovakhy, O.H. Stehniia ta O.O. Maksymenko · Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine · Kyiv · 2021 · full text
Ukraine in Transformation: From Soviet Republic to European Society — Lyubyva Tetyana Yaroslavivna, Golovakha Ievgenii Ivanovich · Palgrave Macmillan · Cham · 2020 · 10.1007/978-3-030-24978-6