Keyword: «social policy»

The article analyzes the role of state social policy in smoothing social deviations. Since social policy is the principles, methods for the regulation by the state of the socio-economic conditions of society and the relations between its social groups, the regulatory framework providing prevention, restriction and prohibition of the main socially dangerous forms of deviant activity is analyzed.

Domestic abuse of women is a widespread global social problem of the modern world, leading to certain socio-economic consequences in society. Women all over the world are subjected to physical, social, psychological, sexual, economic and many other types of violence on a daily basis. Victims of spousal violence need social and psychological support, preventive and rehabilitative measures. The Scandinavian states are implementing an effective model of social policy based on social justice, equalization of citizens' incomes, smoothing of property and gender inequality, and the creation of a welfare state. The purpose of the scientific article is to study the state of the social policy of the Scandinavian countries in relation to spousal violence against women. The social experience of the Nordic countries in providing assistance to women victims of domestic violence is real and effective. The family policy of these countries is aimed at creating a safe environment for creating a family and raising children. It will not be possible to completely get rid of domestic violence, but in order to minimize it, it is necessary to develop and put into practice social work technologies for the prevention of family violence. It is possible to find the most effective method of combating this problem by changing the mentality of the population in relation to domestic violence.

Social rights throughout the history of their formation and development cause ambiguous attitude not only among legal scholars, but also among economists, political scientists, philosophers, and sociologists. Apart from the very enshrinement of social rights in legislation, a fundamentally important issue is their proportionality, i.e. justification of their necessity and sufficiency. Determination of the nature of social rights and justification of their fixation, as it seems, con-tributes to the resolution of the discussion about the legitimacy of state interference in economic freedom and the necessity in some cases to isolate certain branches. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the legal nature of social rights, as well as the proportionality of their entrenchment. To achieve this goal, the necessity and validity of social legislation, the concept of proportionality in relation to the consolidation of social rights were studied and analyzed. The research methods used were general-scientific (system-structural, system-functional, analytical) and private-scientific (logical-legal, formal-legal) methods. As a result of the conducted research, conclusions were made about the purpose of social legislation, about the definition of their proportionality.

The article is devoted to the study of the legal concept of social protection of the population. Revealing it as a whole set of measures of an organizational, legal and socio-economic nature, the author points out the functions of social protection at the present stage of state development and defines its differences from social security.

The article examines the methodology of interpretation of the concept of "social policy", confirms the importance of social policy as a factor determining the content and focus of professional training of specialists in the social sphere, and also provides the results of a comparative analysis of Chinese and Russian social practices.