unequal access to resources and power generates conflicts at all levels of the vertical.
Vertical conflicts, in turn, can be divided into two subspecies [29]:
a) status-role conflicts used in the struggle for increasing the personal and group
status (role) in the political structure of society, the place in the hierarchy of political
power, the totality and weight of political rights and freedoms, the ability to participate
in and influence politics.
b) regime conflicts aimed at overthrowing an existing political system or radically
changing the political course. And hence all the diversity of the reasons for the
emergence of regime conflicts can be reduced to two circumstances:
1. Limitation of basic socio-economic needs, interests of a large part of the
population of the country. Such a limitation can be caused both by objective and
subjective factors. The objective factors include: the crisis of natural socio-economic
development of society; problems related to the radical reformation of the socio-
political system of society; the result of unforeseen circumstances (natural disaster,
global financial crisis, external wars, etc.). And to the subjective factors are related:
explicit miscalculations in socio-economic policy (incompetence); the reluctance of
the ruling elite to take into account the root interests and needs of the social strata of
the population; awareness of the existing political system of resource allocation as
unfair and illegal.
2. Differences in the estimates, values orientations, goals, ideas about the political
and socio-economic development of society.
One cannot deny the fact that a certain role in resolving or deepening conflict
situations is played by the information space in which society is located and those
sources of information that uses a person to obtain data for defining their mission and
personal identification to those transformations that take place in society The studies
conducted in 2018 by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology have proved the fact
[30, p. 43] that 85.7% of the information on socio-economic, political and other
conditions in Ukraine and in the world is received by Ukrainians from Ukrainian
television and television channels, which are permitted in Ukraine, 27.1% - from
Ukrainian Internet publications, 23.5 % - from social networking sites. Almost 17.9%
of the information will be received from family, friends and colleagues, which can be
equated with gossip information, because it will be distorted, not truthful enough and
look like what is called informatization "noises" that should be passed through certain"
filters "before they can be used for decision making. And this information in Ukraine
currently uses 5 parts of the population. Moreover, if in 2015 the information coming
from television, Internet publications, radio and the press was trusted by 61%, 47%,
39% and 34% respectively in 2015, then in 2017 this trust almost fell to all publications
and was accordingly 54%, 48%, 33%, and 28% of the population. And more than 60%
of the population are not ready and have no desire to pay for monthly, objective news.
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