Методологічні засади соціологічного аналізу трансформації соціальної структури українського суспільства

The author proposes a number of factors of structural transformations in the Ukrainian society on the grounds of the analysis of implications and general rules of the development of transformational process. The scale, tendencies and peculiarities of such transformations are defined with the help of the complex of directions of social structure transformation. Particularly, the article presents the analysis of sociocultural, stratification and institutional aspects.