Gudzenko O. Personal success in life as a sociocultural phenomenon.

Object: life success as a sociocultural phenomenon. Aim: basic sociological conceptualization of life success as a result of objective condition in social reality combined with the person's specific subjective practices. Methods of research: method of interdisciplinary study, historical method, modelling, systemic-structural method, mass survey, deep interview, secondary analysis, content analysis of gathered qualitative data. Theoretical and practical results: current approaches in studying 'life success' concept are systematized; the advantages of integrative approach for studying given phenomenon are methodologically proven; conceptual categorical instrument of the research is elaborated; theoretically-methodological pattern is worked out and grounded; the pattern includes the system of 'life success' phenomenon empirical indication at subjective and objective levels as well as level of social representations. Novelty: the conceptualization of the concept of "life success" as the objective-subjective constructs in the context of an integrative paradigm. Degree of implementation: the research results are used in developing and teaching the courses of "Sociology of Culture", "Social Structure of Society", "Sociology of Person", "Sociology of Life", "Sociology of Life Success" for the students of the Oles' Honchar National University of Dnipropetrovs'k.