Society in Transition: Social Issues in Sociological Focus

Dates: 9 – 23 September 2002

Host Institution: School of Sociology, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, East Ukrainian Foundation for Social Research, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Location: The Crimea, Ukraine

 

Eligibility

Disciplines: Sociology and related disciplines

Region/Countries: NIS, Baltic States, Poland

 

Language(s): Russian, English

 

Course Directors: Dr. Vil Bakirov,Rector, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, President, East Ukrainian Foundation for Social Research and Dr. Valeriy Nikolayevskiy, Dean, School of Sociology, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Head of the Board, East Ukrainian Foundation for Social Research

 

Contact Information for Applicants:

Postal Address: Kharkiv National University, School of Sociology, vul. Myronosytska 1,

r.2-10, 2-22, Kharkiv, 61002 Ukraine

Telephone/Fax: +38 0572 141 408

E-mail: sociology@univer.kharkov.ua

Web Site: www.sociology.kharkov.ua

 

The School aims to discuss basic and specialized curricula that study different strategies of development of post-communist countries and the consequent social changes, and to contribute to the development and upgrading the academic courses addressing these issues. The School offers courses on the most topical issues of social development, taught by a team of prominent social scientists from the West and the NIS: Health as a Social Value, Social Inequalities, Deviant Behavior in the Post-Soviet Space as a Subject of Sociological Analysis. The School is designed as a continuation of a series of International Summer Schools (1997-2001) organized by the School of Sociology of Kharkiv National University and the East Ukrainian Foundation for Social Research.