Aleksandrova O. Genesis of the middle class in modern Ukrainian society

The dissertation focuses on the research of the peculiarities of the middle class genesis and development in modern Ukrainian society. The paper highlights the nature and structure of the middle class and determines its functions, the main of which are functions of social stabilizer, integrator and control. It's been analysed general models of the genesis of the classic middle class in the industrial society, the post-classic middle class in the post-industrial society and the middle class as a factor of the civil society development in Ukraine. This model is connected with artificial modernization, lack of succession in the introduction of phases of capitalism, uneven transformation changes and "non-communal" environment. In this case the middle class is not numerous, anaemic, weak, with conflictgenic potential, whose power is enough only for initiating modernization reforms and then it chokes with them and dissolves in the social environment.