WSN EVENT #3 | WEBER and UKRAINE
w. Pavlo Fedorchenko-Kutuev
Mediators: Victor Strazzeri and Edith Hanke
Prof. Pavlo Fedorchenko-Kutuev is a sociologist and political scientist based in Kyiv with over twenty years of teaching and research experience in Ukraine and overseas. Pavlo is a Professor of sociology and Sociology Department chair at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Currently, he is working in the area of sociology of modernization and development, social theory of modernity, historical sociology of the developmental state, and comparative politics of the post-communist transformations. He has also published three books and numerous articles in sociology, comparative politics, and history of the social thought. During his career, he has held numerous fellowships at the leading academic centers in the USA, the UK, Austria and Japan, including the Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship and Chevening Scholarship. Pavlo has been relying heavily on Weber’s ideas in his analysis of the post-Leninist societal transformation and state-building, he’s been making use of the concept of neo-patrimonialism as applied to explain post-Soviet political dynamics. Finally, he has also done research on bureaucracy and its ethos as well as the prospect of rationalization/modernization of the Ukrainian society.