THEORETICAL-METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE UKRAINIAN CITIZENS’ SOCIAL-CULTURAL NEEDS RESEARCH
The author pays special attention to identifying the key principles of social-cultural needs satisfaction, which includes the development of the system of spiritual and world view values ​​that mark national identity and symbolically outline common cultural space on its basis; the popularization of national historical memory; the use of linguistic-informational and educational space as social-cultural tools; the satisfaction of the social-cultural needs of national minorities and the foreign Ukrainian heritage; and formulates the main directions of the research of the Ukrainian citizens’ social-cultural needs system.