Mykhaylyova K. Intellectual elite of modern society: peculiarities of forming and activity potential.

Object: the intellectual elite of modern society; Purpose: the conceptualization of the phenomenon of the intellectual elite of contemporary society; The research methods: analysis, synthesis, logical generalization, induction, deduction, systematization, comparative analysis, expert estimations, kontent- analysis, deep interviews, questioning; Theoretical and practical results: the system of challengers, which determines social strategies of contemporary societies is formulated and described; conclusion about passage to the society of intellect is substantiated; the heuristic potential of concept "intellectual elite" for the analysis of the transformed society is opened; the author's set of functions of this group, the system of the indices of the measurement of its group quality are proposed; social base, educational mechanisms of its formation and activity potential are investigated; Novelty: determination and the characteristic of motive power and mechanisms of the development of the intellectual potential of contemporary Ukrainian society, in particular the conceptualization of the phenomenon of intellectual elite; The level of implementation: the dissertation results are used in the activity of Kharkov humanitarian university "People ukrainian academy", in development and teaching of courses "General sociological theory", "The history of sociology", "Sociology of education", "The globalization: sociological analysis", "The development of information society", "Sociology of the social changes".