Sociocultural Phenomenon of Volunteerism in modern Ukraine Cover Image

СОЦІОКУЛЬТУРНЕ ЯВИЩЕ ВОЛОНТЕРСЬКОГО РУХУ В СУЧАСНІЙ УКРАЇНІ
Sociocultural Phenomenon of Volunteerism in modern Ukraine

Author(s): Dmitriy Vedeneev
Subject(s): Anthropology, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: social structure; social life; corporate ideology; corporate culture; public mood; Ukrainian civil associations;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to identify content and dynamic of the socio-cultural characteristics of the volun-teerism as the modern phenomenon of the socio-political and socio-economic existence of Ukraine. The methodology of the study is based on the using of the cultural-genetic, sociologic, structural-systemic, historical -comparative methods to identify the origin and main characteristics of the volunteerism as the specific component of the social life and modern structure of Ukrainian society. The scientific novelty consists of the identification by the author of the leading sociocul-tural and socio-psychological properties of the volunteerism as the consequent of modern society transformation proc-esses after 2014, which is seemed to become the stable features of the strata of civil society in Ukraine as well as the separate social group. Conclusions. The voluntaries unions are turned into the modern element of the socio-political stratification of the Ukrainian community. The structural -functional transformations of the volunteerism occur under the decisive influence and in the context of the whole-states problems solving the civil society institutions formation. The ac-tive participants of the volunteer movement are shoving the complex of the sociocultural features, which are determined as well by the origin from the part of society with the existing corporate culture, as that social function, which this stratum is trying to secure in the conditions of market economy and the tendency to strengthen the socio-political positions of the national "middle class" variant.