Ivankova-Stetsyuk O. Folk Culture in Modern Ukrainian Society's Life.

Existence sociological vertions of the culture as a cocisal fenomen are analised. The folk culture's social status in the modern Ukrainian society is determined. The prioritial model of the culture's and the state social institute's relations to be adapted to the modern Ukrainian socium's conditions is formulated. Vertions of socioregulative caracteristics of the folk art with the purpose of their useing fore the adjustsng of cocial relations in the crisisal socium are proposed. The role of the artist education in processes of the folk culture's reproduction are analised. The conceptual field of the hipotatical program of the state institute's support of the folk culture at a regional level is described.