громадянське суспільство

The article analyzes modern concepts of understanding the phenomenon of "civil society" on the basis of a significant array of source base, both domestic and foreign. In particular, an attempt was made to systematize and classify research approaches to understanding the content, patterns of formation and development of civil society in modern world and Ukrainian scientific discourse. Thus, we can distinguish at least seven relatively independent research approaches and many more attempts to synergistically combine different of them in certain authorial combinations.

The article focuses on the role of civil society and the media in the fight against corruption. It has been proven that effective anti-corruption activities seem impossible without the participation of society. The public, on the one hand, is a force capable of breaking the circle of continuous corruption in the state, and on the other, without its support, interaction with civil society institutions, anti-corruption activities of public authorities seem ineffective.

The problem of drug addiction is a global one for society, since the essential sign is more socioeconomic than medical and legal, requiring the fight not with drug addicts, but with drug addiction as a phenomenon.

The article deals with the general functions of national elites, the basics of interaction between the ruling, elite represented by the ruling elite and civil society institutions, specific features of political elites in Ukraine.Based on the author’s views, it is concluded that today there is no rational balancing of socio-political interests and no perception of politics as such, which is why the basic theoretical principles of interaction between the authorities and society are offered.

The article analyzes the role of the Ukrainian Bar Institute in the mechanism ofprotection of human and citizen’s rights and freedoms. Attention is drawn to the fact that themodern component of the characteristics of the national bar association is directly related to14the change of vector not only in the field of improvement of the judicial system, but also as anindependent civil society institute formed in Ukraine.

The article explores scientific approaches to the treatment of the “elite”, identifies the keyfeatures of the activities of modern elites, identifies their main role in the context of modern processes ofstate development, and indicates the importance of their influence on the formation of the modern state.In view of this, the proposes the basic theoretical principles on the process of improving their activitiesin order to improve the process of building a modern state in the context of modern processes of statedevelopment.

The article explores the problem of a minority of women in science, focuses on theinfluence of gender stereotypes in choosing professions, gender and type of activity. It is notedthat women rarely become the subject of special philosophical research.The works of Aristotel were analyzed, his ideas on the organization of the policy and itscitizens, the statements of ancient thinkers about.

The article defines the role of public organizations in shaping the ideology ofmodernization of Ukrainian society. Analyzing the activity of modern civil society institutionsin the context of forming the ideology of modernization of the Ukrainian society, we haveidentified the following trends. Civil society institutions are actively involved in the formationof a state course aimed at solving current problems of the Ukrainian society.

The article analyzes the theoretical and methodological foundations of the formation of the legal category “civil society”. Civil society as a philosophical and legal category is explored in two dimensions: phenomenal (practical) and abstract-conceptual. In the phenomenal  context, the category is regarded as a characteristic phenomenon of the modern society, which is a living substance, which by its very nature is inflexible and in a state of permanent development.

The article describes the characteristics of NGOs, analyzes the compliance of existing national legislation on NGOs with the Recommendations of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to Member States on the legal status of non-governmental organizations in Europe 2007 No. CM/Rec (2007) 14, Fundamental principles for the status of nongovernmental organizations in 2002 and the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of 1950.