Abstract:

The article claims that despite the basic worldview, sociocultural, and political transformations of everyday reality, the contemporary Ukrainian social being preserves premodern forms of social interaction proving to be the main inhibitory factor of social development. This idea leads to the conclusion that the drawbacks of contemporary social being can be transformed only by means of Humanitary education, due to which it is possible to penetrate into the Ukrainian social consciousness of liberal norms and values, being the worldview back-ground for destroying the mythological syncretism of the Ukrainian social outlook, revealing at the same time the possibility for every personality’s free development, which is the first and the most important premise for the formation of «common weal state»

Keywords: transitive society, premodern, industrialization, nation-creation, ethnic identity, group identity, socialpolitical tradition