Socialization and social quality — from turbulence to laminarity

The monograph is the result of the author’s research on the contradictions related to increased turbulence in the “new reality” of social development, characterized by growing instability in both political and economic terms.

In the conditions where the modern world cannot prevent the deepening of global interaction in the field of exchange of people, goods, and information as a result of technological advances and the use of infrastructure opportunities, and, at the same time, there are opportunities to take advantage of national influence, considering together that contradictions between the global and national deepen the turbulence.

The turbulence in the “new reality” of social development is the result of the promotion of the free market’s absolute superiority at a global level, which historical ideology in the form of the neoliberal order has undergone a crisis, which has led to the search for alternatives, such as alterglobalizm as a “socio-cultural reality.” A characteristic feature of the latter is the possible processes of society’s transformation on the so-called ethical and moral conditions of living. Such a transformation should become the character of social modernization, in which, at the macro level, the key significance will be changes occurring at the micro level due to the socialization of society, without which the market, in principle, does not produce effective results as known.

The events that have taken place in Ukraine under the influence of exogenous factors on economic development over the past 30 years have stimulated a search for answers to how socialization can provide a path to solidarity in the construction of a social, state, and personal development that is nationally rooted. There is an opportunity to overcome the turbulence that has elements of a global kind on this path. The future practice shows how exactly the trends in the factors of today’s instability will be overcome, which, according to the respondents of the survey conducted on the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos 2025, require joint efforts and joint action in the future.

The writing emphasizes the effects of interaction and development of socialization and the social state and describes how the social state and civil society influence socialization — they transform the social quality, which determines an individual’s social quality of life.

The author reveals how socialization efforts are used in understanding the development of the social world and promote solidary-based social development. The latter improves the social quality of life in Ukraine in wartime and in this country’s post-war socio-economic field.