Suchergebnisse

In the Ukrainian Sociology there are two parallel "traditions" of sociological measurement as a whole and evaluation of the validity and reliability in particular – "Soviet" tradition and "Western". This article shows the ratio of the terms of "Soviet" and "Western" traditions and the only and most expedient, from the author's point of view, the terminological apparatus was suggested. Also the ratio of content of the concepts of validity and reliability is considered.

On the basis of data of the European sociological research the comparative analysis of various social orientations of the youth of Ukraine and Russia is performed. Statistically significant differences in the trust levels to political and legal institutions, the satisfactions by the life, and the value orientations of the youth are revealed.

The questions related to the evolution of rural communities are clarified, and the dynamics of social changes in the country and the attitude of the rural population to them are considered. Under the modern conditions of the general economic crisis, the processes of destruction of villages, fracture of their social structure, and deterioration of the life of the rural population are intensified on the whole.

On the basis of data of the European social study for 2006-2007, the author analyzes the ideas of men and women of the comprehension of such notions as "adultness", "mid-age", and "old age", as well as the ideas of the importance of the occurrence of certain events during the life which are essential or are not for the attainment of a definite life-age stage of the development of a person.