Ph.D. Vladimir Skvorets is an Associate Professor,  Head of the Department of Sociology at Zaporizhzhya National University. Prof. Skvorets was born in 1959 in the village of Preobrazhenka, Orekhovsky district, Zaporizhzhya region. In 1979 he graduated from the Zaporizhzhia Pedagogical School, and in 1984 the history department of Dnipropetrovsk National University. After he worked as a teacher of history and legal science at school. From 2000 to 2012 he was a trainer of the discussion club "Debates" at the "Svitoch" school in Dniprorudne. He became one of the organizers of the debate movement among schoolchildren in Ukraine. In 2007 Prof. Skvorets defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Civil society and the determinants of optimizing its development in Ukraine '' (specialty Social philosophy and philosophy of history) in the Academic Council at ZNU. Since 2008 he has worked as a lecturer at the Department of Social Philosophy and Management of ZNU. In 2013 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "People living arrangement: socio-philosophical analysis" (specialty Social philosophy and philosophy of history) at the Academic Council of the Oles Honchar Dnipro National University. Since 2015, he has headed the Department of Sociology and became a member of the Sociological Association of Ukraine.

Since 2015, he has been executive secretary of the editorial board of the scientific journal on the philosophy "Culturological newsletter: scientific-theoretical annual of the Lower Naddnipryansk region". Since 2015, he has been an expert of the subcommittee in the specialty "Sociology" on the development of educational standards for bachelor and master levels at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Since 2016, he has been the Dissertation Council member of the Doctoral Theses Defense - Social Philosophy and Philosophy of History. 

Main research interests: 

• research of civil society in Ukraine;

• research of social problems, social processes and social policy in Ukraine;

• development of the concept of зeople living arrangement;

• study of the transformation Ukranian society as socio-historical organism;

• researching debate as an educational technology.

Contacts:
E-mail: skvorets.v.o[at]gmail(dot)com

	Transformation of the sociohistorical organism of Ukraine: analytics of social processes The monograph is devoted to the comprehension of the analytics of social processes that affect the integrity of the socio-historical organism of Ukraine. In this study, the conceptual origins of analytics of social processes are highlighted on the basis of the concept of people living arrangement, based on the interrelation of reproductive processes that ensure the integrity of the country's social organism and transformational changes. The social evolution of humanity is viewed as the context of social changes in post-Soviet Ukrainian society.
	People living arrangement as a social phenomenon The monograph is devoted to comprehending the phenomenon of the people's life, philosophical reflection on the methodological aspect of this phenomenon, analyzing the procedural nature of the people's life, substantiating the natural essence of the process of its development, identifying the connection between the people's life and social progress, analyzing the state of the people's life and the determinants of optimizing its development in modern Ukraine.
	Essays on the development of sociological thought in the Lower Naddnipryansk region (1860-1917, 1970-1990 of XXth century) This collective monograph under the editorship of M. Lepskiy contains the results of Ph.D. Skvorets's research: in-depth interviews with Vitaly Snezhko and Vladimir Golchenko, employees of the laboratory of specific sociological study of the Zaporizhzhya State Pedagogical Institute, and essays-conclusions from these interviews.