Obukhova N. Cultural industries in the context of social and cultural change (exampled on Ukrainian big cities)

In the dissertation, theoretic generalizations and methodical bases of study of cultural industries as new agents of cultural production in the major cities of Ukraine, the symbolic space of the post-industrial city is considered as a reproduction of the environment and cultural industries from the perspective of cultural transformation, i.e. moving from the production of goods for the production of symbols and values. The main purpose of the study is to define the basic functions and features of the formation and development of cultural industries in the context of social change. The scientific novelty of results. The study results that contain the following elements of scientific novelty and presented for protection: for the first time, considered the symbolic space of the modern city of Ukraine by studying the reproduction of the environment and the cultural industry as new agents of cultural production, further refined the conceptual approaches of Western social scientists to study processes of post-Soviet social and cultural change, was further developed a sociological study of urban space in the context of a regional urban identity, transformation of urban space, the reproduction of urban memory as a source of urban mythology.