Strelnikova O. The institutionalization of charitable activities in the modern Ukrainian society.

Object: charitable activities. Aim: development and justification of the conceptual foundations of a sociological analysis of the institutionalization of charitable activities in today's Ukraine. Methods: generalization and comparison, analysis and synthesis, system analysis, classification, formalized interviews, secondary analysis of materials of social researches, quantitative and qualitative methods for sociological information. Theoretical and practical results: the conceptual basis of the study of the institutionalization of charity activities, theoretically and empirically grounded features of this process in modern Ukraine; proposed categories of the study of the phenomenon of charitable activities. Novelty: identified and described the factors and the indicators of the institutionalization of charitable activities in the modern Ukrainian society, its sources and stages. Degree of implementation: results of the study were used for training and improvement courses "Social Policy", "Social planning and fundraising", "Social security and social protection" for students of the sociological department of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University.