Socio-cultural Institutions Research Articles

ТРАНСФОРМАЦІЯ КУЛЬТУРНИХ ЛАНДШАФТІВ УКРАЇНСЬКИХ МІСТ У ТИЛУ В УМОВАХ ПОВНОМАСШТАБНОЇ ВІЙНИ

The War between the Russian Federation and Ukraine is one of the most devastating conflicts in history, with an unprecedented scale in Europe since World War II. It has a profound impact on Ukrainian society, resulting in complex changes on multiple levels, including economic, political, cultural, and social aspects. The cultural landscape of Kyiv undergoes transformations of varying intensity and nature throughout the year 2022. These processes can be caused by changes in the functions of sociocultural institutions and architectural structures, alterations in the names of urban toponyms, the placement of military posts, and defensive structures, as well as shifts in the perception of public space and associations related to the city. It has a significant impact on the identity of the city and its residents, as well as on the perception of events and public activism. Creative communities, artistic associations, and cultural and artistic-oriented civic organizations that continue their activities have adapted their work and become part of an active volunteer movement. This article aims to explore the comprehensive effects of the war on the general trends of cultural landscape transformation in Ukrainian cities. It examines various aspects of how the war has influenced Kyiv, such as its impact on the creative sector, changes in media hierarchy, the transformation of urban cultural practices, and changes in the supply and demand of cultural products and services at the local level. The article attempts to investigate and systematize the processes of cultural landscape transformation in Ukrainian cities that have not been directly involved in active combat during the ongoing war of Russia against Ukraine. By adopting a comprehensive approach, this research seeks to encompass various facets of the war's influence on cities and urban communities and facilitate an understanding of their interconnectedness with the broader trends of cultural landscape transformation

Проблемы и перспективы организации долговременного сохранения цифрового культурного наследия

Long-term digital preservation aims to ensure that the digital content of traditional socio-cultural insti-tutions (libraries, museums, archives, etc.) remains accessible to user communities for a long period of time and for future generations. The article considers the problems and prospects of organizing long-term digital storage of electronic information resources. It is proposed to use for solving the problems of long-term digital preservation approaches focused on the reference model of the open archival information system (OAIS), de-scribed in the ISO 14721:2012 standard. To describe events/actions with a document during archival storage, it is proposed to use the PREMIS metadata model.

Levko Bykovskyi’s Training Concept of Library Specialists

Problem statement. Modern Ukrainian society is changing as a result of irreversible demographic, intellectual and cultural losses. The tasks of reconstruction and development of the country cause new challenges for the educational, scientific and industrial sectors. Resistance to Russian expansion requires innovations in information activities too. The transformation of the public role of library institutions is observed. There is a need to transform libraries into modern socio-cultural institutions that fully meet today’s requirements of a society. The key to successful changes in the library industry is the improvement of its staffing and effective innovative management. This, in turn, requires a thorough analysis of the national and global experience of librarians.
 The purpose of the research is to study the curricula on book studies, bibliography and librarianship, which were used in Librarianship higher course for librarians at the Warsaw Public Library.
 The methodology of this study is based on a complex approach, that combines both general scientific and problem-specific methods. Among them there are methods of systematization, data processing, terminological analysis, generalization, as well as logical, descriptive, historical-genetic, and retrospective ones.
 The results. The curricula on book studies, bibliography and librarianship, used in Librarianship higher course for librarians at the Warsaw Public Library, are concluded according to a single principle. Each course contains a curriculum and a thorough list of literary sources, as well as methodological recommendations on the scientific organization of work, ergonomics, etc. The curricula are divided into content modules and thematic blocks. The authors assume that mastering the proposed curricula was a sufficient basis for the successful professional implementation of the course graduate.
 The scientific novelty of the study lies in a comprehensive study of the dynamics of the library field development and the librarians training experience with the aim of borrowing the best elements of it into the modern educational process and abandoning unsuccessful methods.
 The practical significance lies in the attempt to focus attention on the training curricula for librarians at the Warsaw Public Library, developed by scientists of the Ukrainian diaspora, who in the period of the 20-30s of the XX century were the leaders of the library industry, since in the Soviet Union bibliography, like a number of similar educational courses, were in decline.
 Conclusions. The analyzed brochure, despite its small volume, is quite informative. Its author emphasizes the need to write a textbook on library science and at the same time points out its practical significance for the scientific studies of graduate students, the effective work of librarians and their managers. In addition to the idea of librarians at that time, the brochure indirectly gives us information about the life and activities of Ukrainians in emigration, as well as the level of development of the centers of Ukrainianism, in particular in the city of Kalisz, illustrates the relations between the scientific communities of the Ukrainian diaspora and post-Soviet Ukraine. Any scientific papers containing extensive bibliographic lists serve as reference points for scientific research activities since, unfortunately, library funds suffer irreversible losses after the horrors of war.

The dynamics of development of document resources of the libraries in the context of scientific and educational environment of the region

Introduction. Actuality of the problem is determined by the fact that studying modern library vital conditions, active and conscious dialogue of this sociocultural institution with other subjects of the scientific and educational environment of the territory is one of the most important factors of improving library activities.Purpose setting. According to this, the article object is to present the peculiarities in the regional document library resources in the scientific-educational space of the Siberia on the example of four administrative entities: Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo regions and Altai territory.Methods and methodology of the study. The research is based on the application of historical, sociocultural, spatial methods as well as that of statistical analysis.Results. The research has revealed that despite some uniting signs and typical features, differences in the history of formation, socio-economic priorities and rates of development determinate, directly or indirectly, the specificity of the scientific and educational space of each subject, influencing, in turn, the state of document resources. The authors point out basic problems and tendencies, promoting changes of libraries’ roles in these realities.Conclusion. Practical significance of this work is to create preconditions for forming the strategy of improving libraries’ activities in cooperation with other subjects of scientific and educational complex.

Tourism as a socio-cultural institute

The purpose of the article is to study tourism as a universal socio-cultural institute of modernity.
 The methodology. In the process of research, methods of abstraction, analysis and synthesis were applied in the historiographic study of the institutionalization of tourism and its formation as a socio-cultural universal institution of modernity.
 The results. The study of tourism as a socio-cultural institute, conducted on the basis of a new approach to the essence of social institutes, confirms that the field of tourism is a specific branch of social institutionalization. The social institute of tourism is characterized by the presence of the purpose of its activity, functions, a set of social positions and roles typical for this social institute, designed to satisfy public, group and personal needs. The institutional status and institutional structure of tourism are expressed not only in the functional task of tourist activity, but also in the fact that, as a social institute, tourism acts as a system-built set of interdependent specific organizations included in a complex system, both internal and external functional and organizational connections and relations. This requires constant adjustment of the appropriate mechanism for ordering and coordinating the interactions of individual components of the tourism sphere, taking into account the specifics of its regulatory system.
 Institutional relations of the Ukrainian Social Institute of Tourism with international tourism organizations and the implementation of positive international experience in the field of tourism in Ukraine require further research.
 The scientific novelty. Consideration of tourism through the prism of institutional theory.
 The practical significance. The materials of this article can be used to develop programs or strategies for the further development of tourism as a socio-cultural institution in Ukraine.

Characteristics of the operational model of the local history museum (2021-2023)

The relevance of the research problem was underscored by the ongoing transformation of museum institutions, marked by the emergence of a new socio-cultural institution that responds to the demands of the current tragic circumstances. The significance of this work lied in identifying the key factors driving the transformation of the museum‘s activity model, a pivotal component in addressing contemporary issues in cultural and intellectual development. The study aims were to analyse the activity model of the Kirovograd Regional Ethnographic Museum from 2021 to 2023, determining the place and role of the museum institution in shaping the modern socio-cultural landscape amidst the implementation of martial law and considering trends in the information sphere. The research methodology employed a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and systematic approach, utilising methods such as analysis, synthesis, interpretation, descriptive, and partially comparative-historical methods, with content analysis being foundational. The analysis of the museum‘s activity model during the aforementioned period highlighted the significant role of museum institutions in preserving the national cultural heritage. By safeguarding unique artefacts, museums illuminate the history, traditions, and culture of both specific regions and the nation as a whole, thereby preserving cultural values for future generations. The study justified the place and role of museum institutions in shaping the contemporary socio-cultural landscape, taking into account the latest trends in the information sphere. It examined the pivotal historical stages in the development of the Kirovograd Regional Ethnographic Museum and analyses its main areas of activity, including scientific-exhibition, scientific-methodical, scientific-research, among others. Furthermore, it conducted a content analysis of the indicators of the museum‘s core activity directions from 2021 to 2023 and meticulously investigates the institution's project activities, providing a thematic-classification of existing projects and identifying their primary forms of implementation. The practical significance of this research lies in its potential to enhance the effective utilisation of analysed practices, ensuring the museum‘s sustained and active presence in the socio-cultural landscape of the contemporary tragic era

Seeing Like a Native Anthropologist: A Post-Postcolonial Reflection on the Native Turn in Asian Academia

This article aims to delve into the “native turn” emerging in anthropology and broad academia in Asia and the Global South in the last two decades, represented by their growing momentum in decolonization, autonomy, and “indigenization.” There, however, exists a tendency in anthropology, especially among non-Western and “mixed” anthropologists, to dismiss the idea of native(s) or native anthropologists and sometimes replace it with the amorphous notion of “halfies.” I contend that many of the “halfies” scholars, informed by postcolonial and postmodern thoughts, tend to misread the de facto postcolonial conditions in which the West continues to dominate in the existing world-systems. I argue that it is vital to acknowledge the native turn as an ethnographical fact because this recognition is closely associated with the prospect of decolonizing anthropology and Western-dominated knowledge production. Next, I use my experience of the native turn(s) to Tibetan and Chinese sociocultural institutions and political sensibilities to better contextualize and exemplify the examined broad native turn in anthropology and social science in Asia. Furthermore, I propose a multifaceted view of natives or nativeness as a necessary step to engage more constructively with the idea of native(s) and the native turn. In so doing, I advocate a post-postcolonial critique to make a timely and necessary intellectual intervention.

THE ACTIVITY OF THE MUSEUM AS A SOCIO-CULTURAL INSTITUTE ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE NIZHNEVARTOVSK MUSEUM OF LOCAL LORE NAMED AFTER T.D. SHUVAEV

Modern museums, transforming their excursion services, develop new areas of activity and introduce current methods of working with visitors of different categories. The museum today is not just a place of storage of valuables and objects of cultural heritage, but also, to the full extent, a socio–cultural institute that implements its functions.

Репрезентация армии и войны в видеоиграх: текущее состояние и перспективы жанрового сдвига

The subject of research in this article is the study of the genre areas of representation of the army as a socio-cultural institution in video games. To solve the research problems, methods such as classification were used to determine the main options for the representation of the army in video games, a structural-functional method to identify the media characteristics of games, forecasting to identify the prospects for a genre and ideological shift in military video games. As a result of the study, it was found that modern personalized war games are shifting from the era of the Second World War deeper into the past - for example, to the First World War or the Middle Ages, and their ideological content and content are also changing - from the linear fulfillment of a tactical task to a detailed narrative that reveals tragedy and heroism of military conflicts. According to the author, an important aspect of the success of military-patriotic education and the pragmatics of video games in the context of modern Russian culture is not just setting the task of creating games that glorify our military past, but also regulating the image of the Russian army today. A tool for this can be simulators of everyday activities, adventure games about the everyday life of border guards, signalmen, submariners on a campaign, managers of a military unit. Their potential is able to demonstrate the army as an institution for maintaining peace and ensuring security. The author assumes that such a genre experiment in military video games will make it possible to popularize Russian military video games on the market. In the conclusions of the study, 4 genres of army representation in video games are presented, in which the ideological paradigm is built around personal heroism or team genius, as well as personal exclusivity in extreme circumstances of military operations. The latter is formed by the very genre nature of video games, genre is message. The author revealed that the dominant genre is the action shooter, due to which the connection between the army and the categories of peace and security is lost and the categorical picture of the world created by the games of the military genre is distorted. The identified genre shift is destructive in nature, as it is aimed at destroying the socio-cultural institutions of the army.

Fashion in the Regency Era

Regency England has long been a source of fascination for modern audiences, from the marriage tales of Jane Austen to the mystical introspection of the Romantics. The era, which spanned from 1795 to 1837, marked a large transition in British society, ushering in brand new technologies and attitudes as postwar optimism and the Industrial Revolution brightened the minds of British citizens. This period is often typified as one of indulgence and luxury, an example set by the Regent himself; according to Professor Cheryl Wilson at Stevenson University, this included “an appetite for scandal, for sex, for delicacies, for literature, for clothing and material goods, for knowledge, and for all things new and fashionable” (2007). Fashionability indeed was an increasingly valuable trait in English society, and included not only popular clothing (as fashion is thought of today) but also certain manners, ways of speech, and physical activities. Clothing, though, is the element of Regency fashion that appears to get the most attention, as Regency dress has become an iconic image associated with the 19th century, both for men and for women. This is not without good reason: Regency dress communicates an incredible amount of information about the state of English society in the early 19th century, from the transformation of values it was experiencing to the sociocultural institutions that dictated everyday life. In the Regency period, fashion was used as a form of social currency by which members of society demonstrated adherence to popular values and attitudes; fashionability thus became a tool of the aristocracy to maintain their status and increase power over the lower classes.

Prevrashenie (Transformation) of Bacha: Cracks and Ghostly Matters in the National/ist Heritage of Central Asia

Abstract Current attempts by local national/ist governments to impose a rigid binary gender order on local populations are as colonial as the Russian and Soviet colonial attempts to remake Central Asian communities; these efforts are deemed to fail. Bach[ch]a (adolescent feminine male performers), as a gender position and socio-cultural institution not reduced to sexuality, is but one example of such efforts’ futility. By adapting to a changing socio-political context, bacha did not disappear; overtime, this institution prevratilos’ (has transformed) into something else.

Партнерство образовательного учреждения с социокультурными институтами в открытой культурно-образовательной среде

The aim of the study is to substantiate the need for partnership between an educational establishment and various sociocultural institutions. The article provides a typology of models of their educational interaction, proposes a relevant model of interaction between the school and sociocultural institutions; the educational functions of the sociocultural institution as a subject of educational activity are actualized; the goals of interaction between educational and cultural establishments are substantiated. The scientific novelty lies in the identification of fundamental changes in the interaction of educational establishments and sociocultural institutions in open cultural and educational environment, which can be extrapolated to any establishments of cultural inheritance. The result of the study is the proposed step-by-step algorithm for the partnership of the mentioned institutions ensuring, on the one hand, the “pedagogical identity” of each educational institution, and on the other hand, building a fundamentally new, systematic work to modernize the educational process in accordance with the trends of the cultural and educational environment.

Gift-Giving as a Conversion Device in Online Marketplaces

The social foundations of the platform economy stand at the forefront of academic research in economic sociology, communication, and organization studies. Can a study of patterns of gift-giving in online marketplaces further our understanding of the social ties and normative structures underpinning trade? This study suggests that the answer is in the affirmative. Studies of gift-giving in offline markets assert that gifting is predicated on reciprocity and social obligation, and enables the constitution and reproduction of social ties that facilitate trade. This article presents a three-pronged theoretical argument. First, it extends the argument that gifting creates a social space that is open to manipulations and interpretations. Second, it asserts that gift-giving in the online marketplace should be viewed as a particular type of “market device,” an object that guides market actors how to make sense of their socio-economic actions. Third, the article argues that gifting operates as a “conversion device” providing buyers and sellers with a flexible material and symbolic resource that allows them to oscillate and convert between distinct moral frameworks that co-exist within the socio-cultural institution of gift-giving. Based on 54 in-depth interviews, this study finds that gifting flourishes around reputation systems, pointing to their central role in the platform economy. The role of gift-giving as a conversion device is developed and discussed, and the way sellers employ it to convert the normative framework depicting reputation systems as rational and calculative, into a framework highlighting reciprocity and obligation.

The Culture national project and book culture

The author analyzes various definitions of the concept of "culture" in Russia’s federal cultural projects with the focus on building cultural environment, educating cultural creators and implementing digital technologies. The digital culture is a subculture within the national Russian culture; it competes with the book culture, a traditional subculture that ensures semantic intergenerational continuity and preserves the national cultural and historical heritage. In the mo-dern period, the emergence of the book market, machine printing, spread of bib-liophilia, professionalization of librarianship, legal regulations, etc., resulted in the formation of the bibliosphere in industrial civilizations, a supersystem (system of systems) that ensures production, preservation, use and further development of national book cultures. The mature bibliosphere of the early twentieth century was formed by socio-cultural institutions (systems, or branches of the book busi-ness), namely: publishing, printing industry, book trade, librarianship, and biblio-graphy. The concept of "book mind" (Bibliologos) was introduced to denote the book subculture of the humanitarian intelligentsia. As the book subculture, bibliologos makes a strategic resource of the industrial risk society. The general conclusion of the study is that the current national project "The Culture" is incomplete, since the federal project does not comprise the book subculture federal project. The author suggests that the new edition of the national project has to be developed to include, along with the digital culture, the book subculture repre-sented in the idea of Bibliologos.

Microfinance and micropreneurship in rural South-East Nigeria: an exploration of the effects of institutions

ABSTRACT Informed by the work of Alistair Anderson on entrepreneurship as embedded in institutional contexts, this paper explores the experiences of 30 women micropreneurs in rural South-East Nigeria. These women are amongst the poorest people in the world and live in an environment marginalized from formal institutions, where informal ones are prioritized, and where culture and tradition reflect patriarchal limitations on their activities and experiences. We find that while microfinance is often cited as one of the key mitigators of institutional voids and an important support for entrepreneuring in deprived contexts, in fact there are critical barriers to uptake and socio-cultural conditions are found to limit the extent to which women trust and engage with microfinance. To that end, new methodologies that might mitigate perceived risks, including deepening poverty, are called for. Implications for those who would support enterprise in poverty circumstances in developing nations include that to be effective they must engage with the socio-cultural institutions and lived realities amongst the people they seek to serve. Alongside this, further application and development of the approaches to studying entrepreneurship in marginalized environments that Alistair was such as central contributor to are advocated.

INTRODUCTION OF PROSPECTS OF STRENGTHS IN THE PRACTICE OF ACTIVITIES OF THIRD AGE UNIVERSITIES

The peculiarities of the Ukrainian approach to the opening and functioning of educational and sociocultural institutions for the elderly are clarified, the peculiarities of the Ukrainian model of functioning of the universities of the third age are characterized. The essence of the document of the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine "The introduction of social and pedagogical service "University of the Third Age" (2011) and guidelines for the organization of social and pedagogical service "University of the Third Age" in the territorial center of social services (provision of social services), which defines the general provisions of universities, the main tasks, the organization of the educational process, the approximate structure of programs, the rights and responsibilities of students and teachers.It was found that the dominant concept of the functioning of the universities of the third age in Ukraine is the interpretation of their activities in the context of providing social and pedagogical services and the subjective position of students.The purpose of the article is to analyze the activities of universities of the third age in Ukraine and to reveal the possibilities of introducing the perspective of strengths in the practice of their activities.In preparing the article, the authors used theoretical methods of studying the scientific literature, research results of foreign and Ukrainian scientists on the activities of universities of the third age, as well as the method of generalization, comparison, interpretation of information about the activities of universities of the third age.

Sociocultural activity of the library in the conditions of its digitalization

The purpose of the article is to outline the main most effective online means of communication that contribute to the socio-cultural objectives of the library in terms of its humanistic mission. Today the issues of transformation of the national library system are relevant, which is due to global trends in thetransformation of the classical library into a modern socio-cultural and information institution of a new type, which would be interesting for society. One of the main directions of modernization of library services is its digitalization because digital technologies are actively entering all spheres of modern society. The digital economy sets the vector by which socio-cultural institutions will develop. The methodology is based on the use of general scientific methods, namely synthesis, deduction, induction, description, and explanation. Scientific novelty. The study describes the main most effective digital tools that contribute to the socio-cultural objectives of the library in terms of its humanistic mission. The authors emphasize that digitalization is one of the main directions of modernization of the library institution, and outline its advantages while emphasizing the ambiguity of the impact of digitalization on society. The study represents the level of productivity of the main network means of communication in the implementation of socio-cultural objectives of the library in terms of library practitioners. Research of socio-cultural activity of the library in the conditions of its digitalization allows use in the practice of the basic network means of communication taking into account their productivity. Today libraries are faced with the need to digitize their activities,which is the focus of public policy in the library field. Conclusions. Among the most effective digital tools that contribute to the socio-cultural objectives of the library, there are two groups: first, online communication tools, which include library sites, social media pages, library blogs, virtual exhibitions,virtual literature reviews, podcasts, book trailers, digitized library holdings, and second, more traditional events that use digital technology.Key words: archive, innovation, management, digitization, information, rebranding, technologization, fund.

The system for assessing the quality of education in the universities of the leading countries of the world

The main purpose of the article is to study the most successful experience in the implementation of the education quality assessment system in the leading countries of the world. The world is constantly changing and developing. Together with it, we are changing, our ideas about the natural and anthropogenic environment, about our capabilities and needs are changing. We strive to know more, be able to do better, learn faster. And on this path, education is a powerful tool capable of changing the world. As a socio-cultural institution, education is acquiring new properties and characteristics. But the desire of people to form or receive education of the highest quality remains unchanged, especially in the context of systemic transformations. Universities have always been the main producers and providers of knowledge in society, but today they are recognized as the main generators of knowledge. In the context of global competition, a complex of interrelationships between high-quality higher education, scientific research both in the academic environment and outside it is becoming more important for ensuring the innovative and productive development of the state. As a result of the study, the most effective mechanisms for the implementation of the education quality assessment system in the leading countries of the world, as well as the most optimal methods for their adaptation, were analyzed.

Pre-service teachers’ views of schools as workplaces in a system of social, cultural and religious division: to be “selfish” or to be a “hero”?

ABSTRACT Teachers seeking work in market-oriented schooling systems confront a range of settings within which they might teach. This article presents the views of ten teachers on the cusp of beginning teaching in the market-oriented schooling system of Australia, regarding the school or schools they would like to work in as teachers. Data were gathered via in-depth, semi-structured interviews and analysed with reference to Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, field, doxa and misrecognition. Key considerations of pre-service teachers are analysed as falling into two broad categories: feeling like a “professional”, and considerations of equity (with “equity” being variously defined). I argue that a habitus formed within the neoliberal doxa of the education system in Australia provides fertile ground for these new teachers to feel like a “professional” in some schooling fields more than others, with an associated tension of needing to be either “selfish” or a “hero” when thinking about where they would like to work. I conclude by highlighting some of the difficulties present in each of these positions, both problematic if schools are understood as socio-cultural institutions located in a diverse national landscape.

Disability and Mental Ill-Health-Implications for Social Policy and Recommendations in Nigeria

The conceptual definition of disability has been predicated on the quest to balance the medical paradigm with the equally relevant social paradigm of disability. In this paper, I review current models of disability and their impact on interrelationships between disability and mental health disorders within the context of African socio-cultural concepts. I also propose a mental health paradigm through the biopsychosocial model in the management of the complex issues associated with disability. Health workers collaborating with religious and socio-cultural institutions can identify those at risk of grave mental health consequences and offer support to the individual and the family through proper counselling and guidance.