Неформальні інститути у процесі формування регіональних ідентичностей Донбасу

Abstract

Lytvyn V. A. Informal institutions in the process of formation of regional identities in Donbas. Qualification scholarly paper: a manuscript. Thesis submitted for obtaining the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Speciality – 052. V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Kharkiv, 2021. This thesis presents a study of the influence of informal institutions in the process of formation of regional identities in Donbas. The relevance of this study lies primarily in the emphasis on the meaning in a broad sense of the cultural component of identity, which provides a more convincing explanation of the political institutions’ formation and transformation processes through the influence of a certain cognitive set (in our case – through regional self-identification of Donbas citizens) on the strategies of choice and action of individuals in the modern Ukrainian political process. Since formal political institutions in Ukraine are ineffective, the analysis of informal practices as important sustainable components that are systematically reproduced within identities as well as determining the nature of the interaction of informal practices with formal institutions are of particular interest.