Aliyeva L. The foundation and the development of sociology of art in Ukraine in 20-90th years of the XX century.

In the dissertation the foundation and the development of sociology of art in Ukraine in 20-90 years of the XX century have been investigated for the first time. Based on the socio-historical analysis of the foundation and the development of western sociology of art and the study of the formation, specifics and basis of sociology of art in the soviet and post-soviet period, methodological approaches and principals of research in the history of sociology of art in Ukraine in 20-90 years of the XX century, including numerous cryteries and indexes of formation in the field of sociology of art, can be set. On the basis of considerable size of innovated archive sources, we can set the main stages of the foundation of sociology of art in Ukraine, as a process of synthesis of sociological approaches in art, esthetic and art sociologies ( such as: sociology of the theatre etc.) into the independent sociology of art , based on the theory of the average level. The peculiarities of every period of the developmentof sociology of art in Ukraine as well as the specifics of the uneven development of different types of sociology of art (sociology of music etc.) and the tendencies of the transformation of sociology of art into the sociology of artistic culture, have been elucidated. The peculiarities of the development of Ukrainian sociology of art is the considerable scope of it's investigations in the whole integrity of socio-artistic reality, in the interaction with it's main systems and individuals not only theoretically, but also based on the experience.