Values of Ukrainian and Polish Students: Comparative Perspective Vira L. Arbenina Memory East-Ukrainian Foundation for Sociological Research

Abstract

This article presents some results of the international research «Students of borderlands: identity, values, life plans», conducted by the students specializing at the Department of Sociology of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University during the 2014-2015 years in some high schools of Ukraine and Poland. On the basis of the typology of values Scheler-Rokeach, a comparative analysis of the terminal and instrumental values of Polish and Ukrainian students was carried out. The author concluded that the similarities and differences in value discourse of Ukrainian and Polish students are due to historical and cultural features of these countries, and relevant social and political processes taking place in the Ukrainian and Polish societies.