National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) is a classic, prestigious research university recognized by the international academic community, which creates, preserves and disseminates knowledge in natural, social, humanitarian and technical scientific fields. We set and maintain the highest standards in research, teaching and learning. Plagiarism and any manifestations of corrupt behaviour are absolutely unacceptable for Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy is primarily a community of scientists, educators, students, employees, graduates and friends of the university. People of different cultures and origins who form highly educated, nationally conscious, honest, caring and creative individuals, able to think independently and act according to the principles of goodness and justice, for the development of an open and democratic society. The Kyiv-Mohyla community is a centre of independent intellectual thought and an active part of the civil society of independent Ukraine. We defend the right to our own opinion, to speak critically about the authorities’ actions, as well as about the processes taking place in Ukrainian society. We suggest and initiate changes aimed at the development of the country. We strive for every representative of the Academy to develop as free, educated, responsible and creative individuals. Our students receive professional training in the state language and in English, as well as in other foreign languages.
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy as an institution adheres to the principles of humanism, protects people and humanity, defends human dignity, rights and freedoms. These are not just nominal slogans, our educators have a human-centred focus, treat students with respect and pay attention to their feedback. We create a friendly atmosphere in relations between teachers, students and employees, create space for development and encourage creative search, introduce innovative ideas and solutions that help to perform tasks in non-standard methods. For example, historically, Bachelor's, Master's and PhD programs have appeared in the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy much earlier than in other universities. So NaUKMA both borrows the best solutions from abroad, such as mobility programs, exchanges, internships, campuses, and designs its own student-oriented solutions. Liberal Arts is a fundamental principle of education at the Academy, that gives students the opportunity to acquire not only a set of knowledge but also a number of competencies which allow them to be flexible, creative and adapted to the globalized and changing labour market. NaUKMA is a leader in innovation and actively influences the future of Ukrainian society and the state. The university organically combines scientific activity, the educational process and the acquisition of the highest quality practical skills. The atmosphere of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy encourages the development of personal leadership, responsibility and a sense of civic duty.
University educators are role models and mentors for many. They construct Ukrainian education, science and other fields of activity proactively and responsibly. Individual interaction with teachers in the framework of writing scientific papers is especially highly valued by students because it is live and direct communication.
The Academy actively works for the development of Ukraine. We are patriots of Ukraine, and we support the Ukrainian language. At the same time, respect for other cultures, traditions and languages are important components of our identity. Democracy, openness, transparency, decentralization, inclusiveness, opposition to manifestations of authoritarianism, the right and attention to criticism are the basic principles of the Academy. We protect academic freedom, critical and independent thinking.
The Academy operates academic mobility (exchange) programs for Bachelor's, Master's and PhD students, whose mobility is a useful foreign study and internship experience. Students of the Department of Sociology use the mobility program every year and gain valuable experience at the best universities in the world.
Students of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy draw up their individual study plans independently. Every year, students draw up their own plan for mastering disciplines, to which they add normative academic disciplines and selected elective courses. Therefore, students can choose courses from other departments and faculties. Therefore, while studying at the Department of Sociology, you can choose courses from the Department of Cultural Studies, Political Science, Law, Marketing, and others.
We defend the right to our own opinion, to speak critically about the authorities’ actions, as well as about the processes taking place in Ukrainian society.
The ‘Invisible Battalion’ global advocacy project began with researching and documenting the participation of Ukrainian women in the war against the Russian army of occupants.
A sociological survey conducted by the ‘Invisible Battalion’ team in late 2015 uncovered that outdated legislation allowed women to hold administrative positions such as signals, cooks, tailors, and such, while those women were on the front line. However, it was almost impossible for them to get a combat position. For this reason, women who volunteered often found themselves outside legal protection did not have access to adequate social security, and could not be nominated for military awards.
In consequence of the research and the advocacy campaign, a number of orders issued by the Ministry of Defence, expanded the list of combat positions for women, which they actually held during the anti-terrorist operation.
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In terms of science, the Department of Sociology is aimed at conducting research in various thematic areas. The lecturers of the department have expertise in such areas of scientific research as analysis of modern sociological theories, methodology and methods of sociological research, intergenerational social class and educational mobility, sociology of education, the transition from education to work, social structures and personal features in Ukrainian society, sociological studies of gender relations, and others. In addition, the Department of Sociology has experience in international and national scientific cooperation.
The Department of Sociology of NaUKMA is one of the leading training centres for qualified sociologists at Bachelor's and Master's levels, as well as in the PhD program. The department provides teaching of general sociological disciplines, as well as author's courses in the field of history and theory of sociology, methodology and methods of sociological research, data analysis, and a whole range of various branches of sociology.
The educators of the department facilitate forming in the students a high level of theoretical knowledge and a variety of practical skills. Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD programs are available for all. Every year, educators of the department publish scientific articles based on the results of their own scientific researches, participate in scientific Ukrainian and international conferences and seminars.
Graduates of the Department of Sociology successfully work in research agencies, international organizations, analytical centres, marketing companies, PR agencies, and also join teaching staff at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and other higher educational institutions in the country. Graduate students of the department have won several times a grant named after Petr Yatsyk for an internship at the Institute of International Relations of the University of Toronto.
‘So, sociology is a relatively young discipline. At the same time, reflection on the topic of society is eternal and accompanies people from the beginning of history. As life among other people, contacts with others, cooperation, competition, struggles are the basic existential facts of the human race. We are never alone: always, from birth to death, we are surrounded by others, and we must somehow counsel ourselves with others, arranging our lives among others. We acquire different experiences from these contacts, compare them with the experiences of friends and relatives, generalize, and derive different life strategies from them, which we apply in daily practice. So, every person is a sociologist in a certain sense. Just not in an academic, scientific sense’.
‘Sociology. Analysis of society’
‘We live today, at the end of the twentieth century, in a world full of worries, but at the same time, having amazing prospects for the future. This world is in a state of flux, marked by deep conflicts, tensions and social divisions, as well as the destructive effects of modern technology on the environment. And yet we are able to control our destiny and change each of our lives, hoping for the best, which previous generations could not even imagine.
How has today's world been created? Why are the conditions of our lives so different from those in which our parents and grandfathers lived? In what direction will changes take place in the future? These questions are of the most urgent interest for sociology, a scientific field which, in view of the above, should play a role in the modern intellectual culture. Sociology is the study of human social life, groups of people and societies. This is a fascinating and fascinating business because it is about our own behaviour as social beings. The field of sociological research is extremely broad — from the analysis of random encounters between individuals on the street to the study of global social processes’.
‘Sociology’
‘Sociology is the science of society, it studies how society works. This is actually a very broad definition, and it is interesting. On the one hand, we understand how society once existed and worked — historical sciences study this. And how does society work today? Why do we have certain inequalities in society? Why are there poor and rich, elites and people who are not in the elites? What is a phenomenon of gender inequality? Why don’t we give the left hand, but the right? Why do we lend a hand to some and not to others? These are very obvious practices that have an interesting sociological explanation. When we take and decompose the complex into the simple, we better understand what the complex is. Sociology is the science of breaking down society into simpler parts in order to understand how society works’.
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Head of the Department, Candidate of Sciences, PhD in Anthropology (University of Connecticut, USA), Associate Professor
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Master of Sociology, Senior Lecturer, graduate of NaUKMA
Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor
Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor
Candidate of Legal sciences, Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer, Graduate of the postgraduate course of the Department of Sociology in the NaUKMA
Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Senior Lecturer
PhD in Sociological Sciences, Senior Lecturer, graduate of NaUKMA
PhD in Sociological Sciences, Associate professor, graduate of NaUKMA
Master of Sociology, Senior Lecturer, graduate of NaUKMA
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Doctor of philosophy, Professor
Associate Professor, Candidate of Sociological Sciences
PhD student (BA, MA in Sociology)
Candidate of political sciences, Senior lecturer
Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Senior Lecturer, graduate of NaUKMA
Associate professor, PhD (Maastricht University & NaUKMA), graduate of NaUKMA
CVCandidate of political sciences, Associate Professor, Graduate of NaUKMA
Senior Lecturer, graduate of NaUKMA
Associate Professor, Doctor of Philosophy in Economic Sociology (PhD, University of Cambridge, Great Britain)
Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor
Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor
Candidate of Legal sciences, Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer, Graduate of the postgraduate course of the Department of Sociology in the NaUKMA
Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Senior Lecturer
PhD in Sociological Sciences, Senior Lecturer, graduate of NaUKMA
PhD in Sociological Sciences, Associate professor, graduate of NaUKMA
Master of Sociology, Senior Lecturer, graduate of NaUKMA
Doctor of sociological sciences, professo
Doctor of philosophy, Professor
Associate Professor, Candidate of Sociological Sciences
PhD student (BA, MA in Sociology)
Candidate of political sciences, Senior lecturer
Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Senior Lecturer, graduate of NaUKMA
Associate professor, PhD (Maastricht University & NaUKMA), graduate of NaUKMA
CVCandidate of political sciences, Associate Professor, Graduate of NaUKMA
Senior Lecturer, graduate of NaUKMA
Associate Professor, Doctor of Philosophy in Economic Sociology (PhD, University of Cambridge, Great Britain)
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Our graduates work in different economic sectors and possess sufficient skills to cope with the most unexpected tasks and directions. Our graduates hold management positions in analytical centres, work with pharmaceutical, marketing industries, do research activities as scientists and educators, become entrepreneurs, excellent IT-professionals, and famous journalists.
‘My journey to sociology was rather long. After achieving a Bachelor's degree in engineering at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, I realized that it's not what I want to do in the future. I have already been interested in sociology while studying engineering. I read scientific articles, including ones by lecturers from the sociology department. So I decided to move in this direction because it was what interested me. I attended many fascinating courses during the sociology Master's program. They produced a better understanding of things that are objects of my interest sphere. It is essential to me that I had a chance to follow both methodology and really cool worldview courses. Additionally, I didn't feel any discomfort as a person without a sociology background. Everything comes from the classes that gave me an understanding of sociological bases’.
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The Department of Sociology has a periodical publication 'NaUKMA Scientific Papers. Sociology' (Naukovi zapysky NaUKMA. Sociology). It was founded to publish the results of research works, theoretical and empirical studies of scientists, of educators, and students. The publications are focused on a wide range of issues of modern sociological science.
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Candidate of sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, Associate professor, PhD in anthropology (University of Connecticut, USA)
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We are very grateful to designer Ksenia Shishkina, communication manager Anna-Veronika Krasnopolska, head of the department Kateryna Maltseva, researcher Tetiana Stepurko, sociologists Tetiana Kostiuchenko and Tamara Martsenyuk, graduates Snizhana Dariievska, Pavlo Sereda, as well as Kateryna Malachkova and her Instagram-team for their participation in rebranding, students Maria Mykhaylenko, Sofia Gryazon, Ada Krasenko, Diana Kharchenko, Maryna Kobzar. We appreciate everyone who joined the creative brainstorm and helped us bring the new web page to life.
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