CONCEPTUALIZATION OF «LIFE STRATEGIES» IN SOCIOLOGICAL DISCOURSE

Abstract

This article represents some problems of advancement of life strategies in modern Ukrainian society. According to analysis and regimentation of scientific researches we characterized general theoretical and practical aspects of studying and understanding the concept of life strategies. The main goal of this article is conceptualization of life strategies in sociological discourse. Modern Ukrainian society is a specific area where different life strategies of people are developing. The challenge of developing life values, interests, necessities, orientations and priorities are studying in different humanitarian sciences with a lot of researches. But theoretical and practical foundations of life strategies are not so much researched.

Transformational process influenced on social structure of Ukrainian society and it didn’t miss an attention for huge social groups. By the way, all this social groups have different social statuses, ways of behavior and developing of life strategies at all. That’s why, to understand the meaning of life strategies in sociological discourse we need to contemplate their definitions, categorizations and different ways of contemplation. The term «life strategy» is using in different sciences: philosophy, political sciences, social psychology and in sociology in general. But even if this term is known for a long time, it needs to be more theoretical and practical researched. It is because we are living in modern society of social inequality, so we need to review the meaning of life strategies. In this article life strategies are also handled with different historical periods and scientific schools. This gave us opportunity to analyze conceptualization of life strategies more deeply and qualitative.