Yuliia
Soroka

– doctor of science in sociology, professor in department of sociology, N.V. Karazin Kharkiv national university (Ukraine), senior researcher in Human Geography Unit, University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Her education (1995) and academic degrees (1999, 2013) were obtained in N.V. Karazin Kharkiv national university. She teaches courses Sociology of Culture, Teaching sociology, Sociology (for Social work), Sociocultural analysis in strategic communication, Rhetoric of conflict in media. Yuliia Soroka is sociologist of culture. Her works were devoting to the processes in symbolic space of Ukrainian society in different empirical fields. There were the texts of new independent media in the middle of 1990th, post-soviet sociocultural transformation in Ukrainian society, namely attitudes to material wealth, students attitudes to past and recognition of heroes, popular culture and films, the changes in urban symbolic space (toponyms as such) and other. Now she concentrates attention in culture and power relation. And the main research question is How culture “works” in reproduction of power relation within society? That are cultural mechanisms of power (CMW)? The concept of CMW were using and empirically justifying in research of Discourse of muslims in Ukrainian media, Social theater, Hate speech, Dialogue as social technology, Collective identities within Pro-evromaidan discourse, Hostility towards IDPs, Nomination of winners in Olympic games in TV translations, Representation of the provincials in Ukrainian TV-shows, Standing greeting rituals and others. An other relevant research topic is student-centred education and power relations in classroom. She works also as a researcher and an expert-sociologist in such Ukrainian civic projects in the fields of dialogue and mediation, gender, urban revitalisation, educational policy.