Institute of Sociology NASU

A short report on the round-table discussion “Trustworthiness of sociological knowledge: theoretico-methodological, empirical and discursive aspects”

stmm. 2022 (4): 193-196

OL’HA MAKSYMENKO (moderator), MA in Psychology, leading sociologist at the Department of Methodology and Methods of Sociology, Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (12 Shovkovychna St., Kyiv, 01021)

olga.maksimenko.65@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2804-2790

On 21–22 October 2022, the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine hosted a round-table discussion titled “Trustworthiness of sociological knowledge: theoretico-methodological, empirical and discursive aspects”. The event was dedicated to the memory of V.M. Vorona. The discussion was held online. The following issues were raised: a) theoretical underpinnings, methodological principles and empirical criteria of trustworthiness; b) approaches and research tools for assessing trustworthiness; c) factors influencing the trustworthiness of research data; d) problems related to the trustworthiness of data and solidity of conclusions in quantitative and qualitative studies; e) challenges for mass social surveys in Ukraine in time of war, etc.

About 15 talks and presentations were given. Participants of the round table represented a number of academic, research and educational institutions such as the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Faculty of Sociology and Faculty of Psychology), National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Odesa Polytechnic National University, Bohdan Khmelnytsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University, M.V. Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sociological Service at the Ukrainian Centre for Economic and Political Studies named after Oleksandr Razumkov, Masaryk University (Czech Republic), as well as the “Extreme Scan” independent sociological community. The employees of the Institute for Digitalisation of Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, the National Centre “Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine” and members of the Cherkasy regional branch of the Sociological Association of Ukraine also showed interest in the event. The discussion was moderated by Ol’ha Maksymenko (Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine), Olena Kniazieva (the “Pulse” Sociological Centre for Information and Research) and Maksym Kasianczuk (Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity).

More detailed information about the round table, along with the participants’ talks and presentations, will be published in the next issue of the “Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing” journal.

Below are the talks and presentations given by some participants.

Trustworthiness of information and its simplest structure (Mykola Churylov, Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

Trustworthiness of empirical sociological knowledge: discourse-related markers (Oleksandr Stehnii, Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

Methodological approaches for increasing reliability of the population sample surveys’ results (Volodymyr Sariohlo, M.V. Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies of the NAS of Ukraine)

Problems of completeness and trustworthiness in strategic information regarding social groups vulnerable to HIV in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (Maksym Kasianczuk, Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity)

There is no personal opinion — only the public on (Mykhailo Mishchenko, Razumkov Centre Sociological Service)

The importance of taking into account the time parameter in online surveys during the war (Nadiia Korytnikova, Faculty of Sociology, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ruslana Moskotina, Faculty of Sociology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)

Measuring culture consensus and assessing data quality in research on shared collective knowledge (Kateryna Maltseva, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”)

Sociology and sociography: special requirements for the trustworthiness of knowledge (Liubov Bevzenko, Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

Causal relationships as an indicator of the trustworthiness of sociological data (Iryna Marynich, Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

Cultural and social systemology in the study of social systems (Yurii Romanenko, Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)

Visual symbols in Ukrainian epics with regard to the problematics of the sociology of art (Yevhen Koren, Faculty of Linguistics and Social Communications, National Aviation University)

Community and war: steps to victory (Natalia Hlebova, Bohdan Khmelnytsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University)

Received 04.01.2023