Open AccessSocial inclusion in the assessment of social quality: practices of participation in Ukraine in the 2000s
Author(s) -
Yuriy Savelyev
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
vìsnik kiïvsʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu ìmenì tarasa ševčenka. socìologìâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2522-9095
pISSN - 2413-7979
DOI - 10.17721/2413-7979/6.9
Subject(s) - ukrainian , political science , politics , context (archaeology) , authoritarianism , democracy , inclusion (mineral) , social engagement , economic growth , development economics , political economy , sociology , social science , economics , geography , law , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology
The article contends the priority of practices of political, civic and social participation in the measurement of social inclusion as a component of social quality. Comparative analysis of the third (1999-2001) and the fourth (2008-2010) waves of European values study demonstrates contradictory tendencies of different types of participation in Ukraine during the late 1990s - 2000s which allows an assessment of important dimension of social quality of Ukrainian society in the context of other countries in Eastern and Western Europe. The structure of factors of civic and social participation in Ukraine has similarities with democratic countries - Germany, France and Poland, as well as with authoritarian Russia and Belarus. The growth of political activity and disproportionately low levels of civic and social participation in Ukraine point to problems of social inclusion and, respectively, relatively low level of social quality. It is concluded in the article that political reforms without corresponding changes in civic and social participation will not lead to the strengthening of democratic institutions of Ukrainian society and establishing a stable system of consolidated democracy.