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Department of Methodology and Methods of Sociology

About the unit

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 levels development of theoretical and methodological principles for research on present-day social phenomena study of the methodological principles for carrying out comparative studies validation of measurement scales used in sociological studies adaptation of existing measuring instruments and development of new ones for public opinion surveys in a transforming society

Members

Research projects

2023 – 2026 · departmental project

Methodology and instruments for measuring sociological indicators of social change under conditions of transit

Principal investigator — Golovakha Ievgenii Ivanovich

2023 – 2024 · competitive project

Stress states of Ukraine's population in the context of the war: prevalence, risk groups and ways of compensation

Principal investigator — Dembitskyi Serhii Serhiyovych

2021 · competitive project

Indicators of national resilience in the measurement of public opinion

Principal investigator — Dembitskyi Serhii Serhiyovych

2021 – 2022 · competitive project

A systemic approach to the sociological study of individual values: empirical implications

Principal investigator — Dembitskyi Serhii Serhiyovych

2020 – 2023 · departmental project

The reliability of sociological knowledge: theoretical-methodological, empirical and discursive aspects

Principal investigator — Golovakha Ievgenii Ivanovich

2020 · competitive project

Social preconditions and the image of Ukraine's civilisational subjectivity in mass consciousness

Principal investigator — Dembitskyi Serhii Serhiyovych

2017 – 2020 · departmental project

Development and testing of sociological instruments for studying adaptation, inclusion and changing identities under conditions of mass migration

Principal investigator — Golovakha Ievgenii Ivanovich

2014 – 2017 · departmental project

Development and adaptation of measurement instruments for mass sociological surveys in a transforming society

Principal investigator — Golovakha Ievgenii Ivanovich

Selected publications

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

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