Work

The research is the first complete and systematic study of the methodology and methods of studying social inequality. The subjective aspect of the phenomenon, the relation structure between various forms of social inequality, key issues that have the greatest impact on the social inequality perception, the estimates of inequality in different countries, the technique for defining the individual positions in social hierarchy, which takes into account the multidimensionality of social inequality, the impact of each measure separately and strength of the connections between them are considered. The technique has several advantages, in particular it considers the three dimensions of social inequality: economic, power, prestige, it bases on relevant theory for the Ukrainian society, it belongs to a continuous approach, which provide a wide range of statistical procedures and it uses the latest statistical method, which enables to verify hypotheses and evaluate measurement errors. The presented method can be used in research aimed at investigating the effect of social inequality on the other phenomena. So it was used in the analytical report on «Foreign policy orientations of the population of Ukraine» for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. It was found that among the supporters of eastern integration dominated citizens with low social status, and among supporters of Western integration – citizens with social status above the average level.