Social activity of intelligentsia under conditions of ukrainian present

Abstract

The article deals with the social activity of Ukrainian intelligentsia under modern transformation conditions. The modern Ukrainian society on the one hand characterized with informative saturation, the priority of material goods and on the other – with political, economic instability. Using scientific, technical and innovative facilities has led to significant changes in the occupational structure in particular. Priority is given to the creative professions: intellectual elite and representatives of intellectual professions serving all spheres of society. As a result, there is a problem of identity of intelligentsia, which in the scientific community is increasingly compared with the representatives of intellectual professions. However, the main social function of intelligentsia is the reconciliation of material and spiritual worlds with assimilative influence of the subjective. Intelligentsia is a social phenomenon, social stratum of society that combines all the elements of the national idea of social structure and which may include its representatives. The absence or invisibility of the results of social activity of intelligentsia doesn’t give grounds to confirm its passivity, alienation, opposition regarding the social, political, economic and cultural processes in the country. In the article researched that the rational reaction of intelligentsia to external and internal agents required temporal distance. The phenomenon of intelligentsia efficiently manages its internal subjective world. To occurred subjective and objective responses to important transformation process of being it is necessary temporal distance that will react efficiently, plan option for further comprehensive development of the surrounding reality and plan the social activities. In this context we may confirm about the phenomenon of social apathy researched as reaction of some elements of the social structure, society in general to external and internal factors of influence to the livelihoods and functioning of society. Apathy as a social phenomenon is often an accumulation of forces, form of hidden disagreements, self-preservation, passivity that occurs because of impossibility to overcome the circumstances or it requires some time. Rational thinking and therefore the response to the transformation processes of Ukrainian nowadays characterized by inertia, the ability to withstand internal changes influenced by external conditions, guided only by reason. It was established that social apathy is a form of social activity, expressed by inert way. So, no threat of ethnic life deprives it of incentives for development, ethnic group enters into the permanent state of social apathy. In return, the presence of external or internal threat updates ethnic social activity as response to possible adverse changes. Thus, in the article analyzed the actualization of social activity of Ukrainian citizens under conditions of modern economic and political changes. The transformation processes of recent years in Ukraine have led to increased of national awareness of citizens, manifested in volunteering as the form of social activity.