UKRAINIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MUSEUM SOCIOLOGY

Abstract

Objective. Historiographical study is devoted to application of methods of sociology in museum activity. The published works on museum studies, museology and history of culture lack integrity of researches on museum sociology, while fundamental papers dedicated to its complex study are absent in Ukraine at all. Here we analyze the existing historiographic base of this scientific problem. The research methodology lies in the application of systematic, historically logical and chronological methods. The mentioned methodological approach allows to carry out a historiographic analysis of the available in Ukraine literature and sources of sociological dimension of the museological paradigm. Scientific novelty lies in bringing up of the topic and processing thereof, at that the topics have to be of such a kind that has never been comprehensively investigated in historiography. In result for the first time there was comprehensively investigated the process of sociology methods application in museum practice and we obtained new and integral knowledge about the main streams of this process development. The fact-based material of the research was the biggest ever in terms of chronology, and the method of investigation applied was cross-disciplinary. Conclusions. Comprehension of the complex of documentary securing of the museum sociology allows for the conclusion that gradual development of the sociology use in museum affairs is absent. However, practical sociology methods are used by leading museum institutions operating individually and not being elements that impact the overall system. Elaboration of the theoretical aspects will comprise a basis for development of museums’ sociology.