The Department of Sociology and Economics has been working since the Institute’s existence. Initially it was the Department of Marxism-Leninism, then the Department of the Political Economy and Scientific Communism, later as the Department of Sociology, and since February 2005 as the Department of Sociology and Economics.

The first head of the Department was Henadii Kotelnikov. From September, 1994 to January, 2017 the Department was headed by Alla Lobanova, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor. Since 2017, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor Iryna Hrabovets is the Head of the Department.

The Department cooperates with scientists of the Institute of Sociology of NAS of Ukraine, many secondary and higher educational establishments of Ukraine, with sociologists of Poland .

Moreover, the Department provides professional and methodical training of 16 economic, 12 sociological courses at all faculties of the Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University.

Since 2018, the Department initiates training specialists in the educational program "Sociology of Mass Communication, Journalism and Advertising", on specialty "Sociology".

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At the department since 1994 there is postgraduate course. Fourteen postgraduate students received a PhD in Sociology (head – A. Lobanova).

Since 1991, academic staff of the department have initiated and conducted 16 scientific and practical conferences, in particular: international ‒ “Diagnosis and forecasting of socio-economic situations” (1992); “Information and energy technologies of adaptation processes of life activity at the beginning of the third millennium” (2001); All-Ukrainian ‒ “Youth Policy of Ukraine: State, Problems, Prospects” (2004); regional ‒ “Social life on the boundary of centuries” (2000), “Information society and Nature: vectors of mutual influence” (2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018).

There were published 9 monographs, 16 collections of scientific works, 26 scientific-methodical manuals, 5 textbooks, and about 450 scientific articles, abstracts.

The department cooperates with scientists of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine, a lot of secondary and higher educational institutions of Ukraine, with sociologists from Poland, Moldova.

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	Hrabovets Iryna ‒ Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department.
	Lobanova Alla ‒ Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor.
	Chernous Liudmyla ‒ Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor.
	Prykhodko Olena ‒ Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Senior Lecturer.
	Kalashnikova Lyudmyla ‒ Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor.
	Karitka Valeriy ‒ Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, Senior Lecturer.
	Borodina Victoria ‒ Senior Laboratory Assistant.

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