Regionalization of Ukraine in the Context of the Social Tension Sociological Research

The paper analyzes one of the broadest methodological problems in the development of the diverse social and sociological studies on various subjects of the Ukrainian society in the extrapolation of the territorial and geographical distribution of Ukraine – the criteria for its regionalization. The article provides major research difinitions and approaches concerning political and administrative division of regions. In the context of domestic conditions for regional differentiation, various research approaches on this issue and regionalization criteria are considered. The aim of the work is to justify the optimal approach and criterion of Ukraine regionalization in the social tension study context. The analysis of numerous scientific approaches suggests the optimal one to be a political and administrative division of regions within the study of social tension