Sereda Y. Tourist practices as a sociocultural phenomenon: particularities of construction in contemporary Ukrainian society.

Object: tourist practices as a sociocultural phenomenon. Objective: developing of a conceptual framework of sociological analysis of tourist practices as factor and indicator of globalization process and the analysis of the characteristics of their design in contemporary Ukrainian society. Methods of investigation: comparative analysis and synthesis, system analysis, typology, mass interviews, focused group interviews, analysis of documentary sources. Theoretical and practical results: the integration approach for the studding of tourist practices was applied on the basis of the theory of practices, socio-cultural and socio-constructivist approaches, which can be used in further research on this subject; categorical apparatus for studies of tourist practices was developed, a model of tourist representation was created, which allows to analyze the design of tourist practices, socio-cultural particularities of tourist representation of Ukraine were identified. Novelty: a conceptualization of the design of tourist practices as a sociocultural phenomenon. Degree of implementation: the results of the research were used to develop a training course "Introduction to Sociology and Social Work" for students of V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University.