Pogribna V. Sociology of the Professionalism as a Branch of Sociology: Ontological, Epistemological and Practical Aspects (as an example, the activity of the Internal Affairs Authority of Ukraine)

The Thesis covers the research of the one of the most important phenomenon that has added mass professionalism to the society during the modernism and especially postmodernism epochs and helped to reveal ontological and practical mechanisms of its forming and development within new branch sociological direction - sociology of the professionalism. In the work the appropriateness of creation and scientific development of its new branch - sociology of the professionalism and sociological paradigms being theoretical basis of the latter are given on the grounds of the analysis of current state of development of the sociology.