CHARACTERISING THE ESSENCE OF CATEGORY SOCIAL COMPETENCE OF INTENDED SOCIETY SPECIALISTS

. The article describe the social competence of the individual as an integrative social quality of intended special- ists of socio-economic specialties, as the most important background for successful professional activity, which includes a clear value understanding of social reality, specific social knowledge as a guide to action, subjective capacity for self-deter- mination, self-consideration and normality; ability to implement social technologies in the main spheres of life according to the appropriate level of culture, morality and law. The concept of the phenomenon of social competence allows us to determine the higher level of social activity of future specialists of socio-economic specialties – the discovering and development of social reality, which is achieved in the process of activity, behavior, communication, observation etc., through the harmo-nization of awareness of social problems and prospects of social development. On the basic approaches of understanding the concepts of «social», «sociality», «socialization» the concept of «social competence» is specified, its characteristic features are distinguished. An attempt was made to establish dialectical connections between concepts, their semantic clarification, which made it possible to determine the essence of social competence, which is caused by a combination, interpenetration, interaction between «social», which is understood as a set of opportunities for social relations, «sociality», which is repre-sented, we interpret the capacity for social interaction within the limits of «social», «socialized» as the conformity of the individual to the requirements of the society on the basis of widening the boundaries of «sociality», «socialization» rep- resents the process and the result of assimilation and reproduction of the social experience of a socialized personality, social competence in turn is the basis, the result and, at the same time, a condition for successful socialization. Social competence is considered from the standpoint of socialization as a process of human adjustment to the world of human culture, human relations, which allows the individual to adapt and self-actualize in the conditions of modern society.