ОСНОВНА ПЕРЕДУМОВА ГАРМОНІЗАЦІЇ ПРОЦЕСУ ФУНКЦІОНУВАННЯ ГРОМАДСЬКОЇ ДУМКИ В УКРАЇНІ

Abstract

Relevance of the research topic. The urgency of the problem is determined by the need to create socio-cultural conditions for free views exchange as a condition for social dialogue between the state and civil society, which is currently not fully provided in Ukraine. The public opinion functioning in the Ukrainian society is complicated by social life factors that are manifested in the public consciousness of individuals. Increasing the level of mass media intensity, strengthening the influence of corporate and group opinion, as well as transnational corporations’ positions, on the state with the latter ignoring the individual interests, emphasizes the need to harmonize the public opinion functioning in Ukraine. The purpose of the study is define the determinants of optimizing the relationship between the state and civil society as a way to harmonize the functioning of public opinion. The objectives of the study are: 1) to determine the role of the relationship between the state and civil society in the functioning of public opinion 2) to determine the main features of the public opinion functioning in Ukrainian society 3) to form the main factors of optimizing the relationship between the state and civil society as a way to harmonize the functioning of public opinion in Ukraine. The result of the study confirm that in Ukraine a violation of the process of formation and functioning of public opinion as a manifestation of the disharmony of the relationship between the state and civil society. To reduce tension and establish a model of the relationship between the state and civil society, conceptual directions are identified. They focus on the principles of reciprocity and dialogue, humanism, historicism and succession, publicity and transparency, legality and democracy, systematicity and complexity, correspondence between theory and Ukrainian realities, objectivity and validity. The development of relations between the state and civil society is possible on condition of introducing knowledge about the state-institutional and civic-self-organizational determinants of its optimization in Ukraine.