Shedlovska M. Environmental consciousness modern Ukrainian society: sociological measurement.

Object: ecological consciousness as a sociocultural phenomenon of modern Ukrainian society. Aim: elaboration of the conceptual scheme of environmental consciousness study as well as its approbation in the empirical study of this sociocultural phenomenon in contemporary Ukrainian society. Methods of research: analysis and synthesis, historical analysis, typologisation, comparative analysis, correlation analysis, index construction, and cluster analysis. Theoretical and practical results: the typology of ecological awareness has been proposed; the relation between the type of value orientations (in the dimension "materialistic - post materialistic") and the type of ecological awareness based on the application of the R. Inglehart's theory of post materialistic values to study the ecological consciousness of modern Ukrainian society has been revealed. Novelty: elaboration of conceptual scheme of ecological consciousness study and its approbation in the empirical study of sociocultural phenomenon in contemporary Ukrainian society. Degree of implementation: results of dissertation research have been used in the accomplishment of research subjects of Lviv National Ivan Franko University, furthermore, the results of the research were used in the courses of studies in Lviv National Ivan Franko University, particularly in such subject matters as "Sociology of Culture" and "Social problems of modernity".