The thesis presents the concept of the life safety of an individual, and the model of complex diagnostics of its level and algorithms of sociological measurement of behavioral practices and strategies concerning its maintenance in the modern Ukrainian society.
In the work we defined theoretical and methodological bases of life safety of an individual in sociological discourse. It presents the systematization of the approaches, components and factors of life safety in traditional and critical theories. The author further improved scientific position on the content of life safety as a mechanism for ensuring and maintaining the state of statistical and dynamic balance of the social system, the functioning of safety culture as its fundamental component. The concept of «security potential of an individual» was introduced into scientific literature.
The institutional matrix of the subject field of sociology of life safety as a special sociological theory is substantiated and the structural-logical scheme of life safety sociology is constructed. It is proved that an important component of the subject of sociological analysis is the type of individual active and passive strategies of behavior in constructing the mechanism of safe living. The definition of personality as a security referent allowed distinguishing parametric, event, situational, problem-target, problem-task protective reactions in its arsenal.
We constructed a five-level model of research on the life safety of an individual at the nano-, micro-, meso-, macro- and mega-levels. It is proved that each of the defined levels contains a hierarchy of connections of complex components of the social system, which not only interact with each other, but also form an organic integrity, the epicenter of which is a personality.
In the work we defined differences of everyday social practices of the ratio of states of «uncertainty», «risk», «challenge», «threat», «danger», and expanded the content of the definition of «danger» as a generalizing category. We also substantiated the essential differences between the concepts of «risk» and «danger», which are related to the nature of their subject-carrier, the limits of their application in diagnostic sociological procedures. A dendrogram of threats was constructed to show the polysemantic nature of life safety as a social phenomenon and to allow expanding the possibilities of identification and ranking of classification features by distinguishing static and dynamic groups in them.
We showed that the technology of sociological monitoring involved the creation of the necessary list of objective and subjective indicators to assess the level of safety. A diagnostic model is proposed; it allows differentiation of territorial and administrative entities according to the level of their security background for human life through the use of sub-indicator aggregation procedures both at the level of simple statistics in each of these areas of a personality and at the level of integrated complex assessment and its elimination according to the area of the region or the number of available population. Based on the developed model, the method of calculating an integrated indicator of the level of life safety of an individual was defined. It combines a set of socio-statistical and personal assessments, the relationship of which is manifested in the acceptance / rejection of dangers, which is one of the components of sustainability of an individual, society and state in general, along with the involvement and possibility of institutional control in the field of safety management.
The analysis of the empirical basis of the research let us prove the effect of triangulation from the combination of sociological and statistical methods of assessing the level of safety of an individual, which is based on the analysis of the integrated safety indicator in all regions of Ukraine.
The revealed disproportion of regional development allowed substantiating the directions of optimization of social monitoring of the process of ensuring the vital activity of an individual in the Ukrainian reality by introducing the model of comprehensive diagnostics of the level of safety of an individual, as well as constructing new development strategies based on the fixed values of safe functioning indicators.
