November 27-28, 2014, the International Scientific and Practical Conference on Sociology "Great War, the great transformation: the historical sociology of the 20th century, 1914-2014" was held at the Department of Sociology and Law. The conference was attended by over 252 participants from Ukraine, Brazil, Georgia, Spain, Poland and Russia.
At the plenary meeting on 27 November there were reports of Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology of NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Prof. Ye.I.Holovaha Head of the department of the study of social structures Institute of Sociology of NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Sociology, Prof. S.O.Makyeyev, PhD in Public Administration, Professor of the department of the theory and practice of management FSL S.A.Chukut; President "Weston Consulting" (Warsaw, Poland) K.Veston; Associate Professor of Social Psychology University of Tbilisi (Georgia) M.Despotashvili; Dean of the Faculty of legal sociology National University "Odessa Law Academy" D.V.Yakovlyev.
November 28 the conference continued its work in five sections: "Historical Sociology of social transformations: modern world-system in the 20th century", "The dynamics of political institutions in the 20th century, Ukraine and the World", "Political comparative historical sociology of social state from social policy to social work "," Evolution of management in the 20th century: war, modernization and establishment of state Leviathan "," Place and role of historical sociology methodology in the social sciences. "
Special attention was paid to the peculiarities of transformations of modern world-system dynamics and political institutions in XX-XXI centuries.
Participants came to the following conclusions:
1. Wars of modernity, as well as the great wars of the XX century, significantly affect the structure and transformation of social and political systems of the world. Comprehensive understanding of the place of Ukraine in the trajectories of multidimensional data depends on significant theoretical potential of contemporary sociological research.
2. The theoretical work of historical sociology closely with other sociological subjects (theory of modernization, the world-system theory, discourse analysis and many others) offers a rich scientific tools for studying social processes today and implementation of new research programs in sociology and social Science.
3. A wide range of domestic and foreign studies which were highlighted at the conference and were dedicated to the transformation and nation states, global governance and local social institutions, improving and finding new methods of social work, should be implemented in educational and learning process, efficient use of public construction and process of reforming the Ukrainian society.
Conference Proceedings abstracts published by its members.
Conference organizers are: Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, National Technical University of Ukraine "KPI", Faculty of Sociology and Law, Department of Sociology, Department of Theory and Practice of Management, Scientific Society of undergraduate and graduate students FSL, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration, Department of international Relations (Tallinn, Estonia), Corvinus University (Budapest, Hungary), Faculty of Economics, Weston consulting (Warsaw, Poland) Academy of Public administration under the President of the Kyrgyz republic, the magazine "Expert - South" (Russian Federation), Taras Shevchenko State University of Kyiv, Department of Sociology, Institute of sociology of NAS of Ukraine, Department of Sociology of Culture and mass Communication, Kharkiv National University of V.N. Karazin, Sociology Department, Ukrainian branch of political science students (IAPSS) Ukraine.
The directions of the conference work:
Section 1. Historical sociology of social transformations: the modern world-system in the 20th century.
Supervisor: doctor of Sociology, Professor P. C. Kutuev
Secretary: Candidate of Social Sciences, Associate Professor N.O. Maystruk
Ukraine in the Context of the Modern World-System: Periphery and Semi-Periphery. Nationalism, its transformation into a national state.
Leninism and Post-Leninism: The Historical Sociology of Transformation of Ukrainian Society.
Sociological Theory of Multiple Modern and Practical Prospects for Development and Modernization of Ukraine.
The Transformation of Values: From Modernity to Post-Modernity?
‘Maidan’ and the War: Nowadays Ukraine in Comparative-Historical Perspective.
Social Mobility in the 20th Century: Local, Regional and World-System Aspects.Section 2. The dynamics of Political Institutions in the 20th Century: Ukraine and the World.
Supervisor: Master of Science, associate professor M.N. Jenin, associate professor of Political Science A. C. Jakubin.
Secretary: associate professor of philosophy A. C.Raday
The country, which contributes to the development, and prospects of Ukraine. Liberalism and Leninism as political forms of society of the 20th century: implications for the present.
The global hegemony of neoliberalism and its prospects.
The institutions of global hegemony and transformation: Direction: West to East?Political activity and political culture in modern Ukraine.
The policy of centralization and decentralization in the 20th century: international experience and Ukrainian reality.
Religion, public sphere and modernity.
Prospects of the Left politics in Ukraine and the world.
Right party: yesterday, today, tomorrow.
Section 3. Political comparative-historical sociology of the welfare state: from social policy to social work.
Supervisor: Master of Science, associate professor L. V. Romaniuk
Secretary: senior lecturer A. O. Malus.
The evolution of the welfare state in the 20th century: practices, Ukrainian perspective.
Military conflict on the territory of Ukraine as a source of social problems: the role of social work.
The volunteer movement in the conditions of military conflict.
Social mobility, poverty and underclass: conceptualization and practical approaches.Section 4. The evolution of management in the 20th century: war, modernization and development of the state Leviathan.
Supervisor: Master of Science, associate professor A. A Melnichenko.
Secretary: lecturer A. I Bozhok.
The evolution of management theories in the 20th century and their implications for practice.
From innovation to modernization: problems of interaction.
Social engineering as a tool for sustainable development.
E-governance in the context of good governance.
Managerial imperatives of sustainable development of society.The languages of the conference are Ukrainian, Russian, English.