Research of socio-cultural development of urban space in the sociological dimensions of the present
Authors: Horpynych O. V. , Ibrahimova Z. I. 
Published: May 2019

The article deals with modern approaches to the sociological study of the problem of the socio-cultural development of local (urban, regional) social spaces in the context of the transformation of intercultural relations in today’s communication and information conditions. Highlighted key aspects of identifying factors of new social relations, values, norms, mentality, socio-psychological properties of members of multicultural communities in the context of the development of technologies for the formation of public opinion. The main trends of modern intercultural interaction are characterized as everyday changes in conditions, qualities, fields of activity, integration of values and the generation of new forms of cultural activity. The necessity of a sociological analysis of factors influencing information technologies, containing signs of both direct and indirect (implicit) forms of influence on a regional multicultural community, is substantiated. It identifies promising areas of sociological research on the compatibility factors of territorial cultural identities for successful implementation of effective ways of living together in the context of developing new forms of cultural self-determination and further intercultural interactions of regional communities. Socio-cultural regional space is considered as a structured social space in which transformational changes in society have led to the intensification of various forms of mobility of social actors, changes in the qualitative and quantitative composition of socio-cultural groups, the emergence of new ones - due to the factors of conditionality, the deepening of cultural and environmental polarization within the traditional, the formation of a new model of intercultural relations. The evolution of sociological research from the research of the social aspects of urbanization and its impact on the activities of individual individuals and communities to study the factors of the functioning of independent socio-cultural entities in the broad contexts of regional development is due to changes that are caused by transformational processes in modern society. The authors of the article conclude that the current problem of sociological support is the relative weak correlation between socio-cultural factors of the formation of regional communities and the dynamics of intercultural and communicative characteristics of individuals in the information conditions of the present, which complicates the use of traditional methods for sociology of studying processes of social mobility. The article emphasizes that the analysis of sociocultural policy and strategies of cultural development of local communities in the context of problems caused by the consequences of war, which is based on the principle of multidimensional hierarchical research of stratification models with a combination of objective and subjective indicators, qualitative and quantitative measures Subjective and objective indicators to identify the most successful adaptation strategies.