Golikov O. Peculiarities of construction of cultural capital of modern Ukrainian students.

Object: the cultural capital of the Ukrainian student's youth; Goal: analytical and research conceptualization of the approach in which there will be possible a research of processes of designing of the cultural capital in Ukrainian socio-cultural conditions from the point of view of structural elements of constellation of cultural resources (which includes the cultural capital), and contexts of research of the cultural capital; Research methods: the comparative-historical, interdisciplinary, system-structural, system analysis, typologization, comparative; the mass questionnaires, the focused group interviews, the analysis of documental sources; the correlation analysis, comparative analysis, a method of the substantial analysis of the qualitative information; Theoretical and practical results: the structurally-contextual approach to the analysis of the cultural capital is developed; the terminological device of research of the cultural capital is developed; the structure of cultural capital of Ukrainian students is analysed; Novelty: conceptualization and research of processes of designing and converting of the cultural capital of Post-Soviet students; the formulation and a substantiation of the structurally-contextual approach to the analysis and measurement of the cultural capital; Degree of application: main ideas and conclusions of research can be used for improvement of teaching and educational process in higher education system, in training courses on sociology of youth, sociology of culture, sociology of knowledge, social stratification, sociology of education, etc..