This article is devoted to a question of increase in efficiency of administrative activity. The author considers successful models of effective administrative activity in the article. Three models of foreign experience recognized as the most effective are analyzed. The author represents the main characteristics of these models, it carries out the analysis of similarity and difference in experience of other countries and Russia. On the basis of studying of the offered models the author allocates the most significant problems of domestic management.

The article is devoted to consideration of forms of work with homelessness on the example of domestic and foreign experience. The author gives the generalized characteristic of homelessness. Also the author considers an order of rendering social support to the homeless in our country and gives positive aspects of experience of foreign countries. Need of loan of some instruments of social work with the homeless of foreign countries and its application for more effective resocialization of the homeless is proved in article.

The principles of policy of birth rate are analysed. Classification of the Muslim states by birth rate policy types is carried out. The dependence between modification of need for children, trajectories of the movement of production of GDP per capita is revealed and time during which are captured by primary education from 67% or 91% of boys. The research of actual sizes of the social and economic and demographic indicators which are in borders of social and economic and/or demographic processes is offered and conducted. It is considered in the relative sizes coinciding among themselves and/or characterizing process of reproduction of the population and social and economic dynamics against the background of a trajectory of the movement of qualitative characteristics of the population within 10 years, “a log of patience of the population”, generation. Refraction of the developed theoretical designs in the plane of the practical recommendations concerning desirable shift in the mode of reproduction of the population is carried out. These recommendations can be applied in other countries of global system.

The question of the meaning life’s individual human in the context of the synergetic history’s philosophy: the man’s movement, humanity and culture to the super attractor - the global attractor, to which all local attractors aspire - is considered in the article. An empirical and theoretical substantiation of the life’s meaning is given with the help of the “super attractor” concept in the framework of scientific philosophy in the process of a new intersubjective ideal forming.

In addition to the exclusive right to execute prestigious secular functions, the chief becomes the owner of the sacral power resources. But it seldom led to conflicts between the chief and other carrier of sacral authority - the shaman. Usually the both leaders keep under one’s control distinct areas of influence for a spiritual life of ancient people.

The demographic situation and economic situation of Saint-Petersburg and the Leningrad region require a comprehensive sociodemographic policy, necessary to ensure economic growth and social development of the region. The author suggests the following methodological recommendations for the improvement of socio-demographic policy, consisting of seven main areas: • methodological recommendations in the field of public health and improving public health; • methodological recommendations for strengthening the family, childhood and youth; • methodological recommendations for improving the education system and the employment of the population; • methodological recommendations on the formation of a socially-comfortable living standard of the population of the region; • methodological recommendations for solving the housing problem in the region; • methodological recommendations for ensuring a moderate migration inflow of the population; • methodological recommendations on poverty reduction.

The article presents an analysis of the concepts of social capital. The role of education in the process of forming social capital has been defined. The concepts of P. Bourdieu, R. Putnam, J. Coleman, R. Bertha are considered. Particular attention is paid to the problem of social relationships between people. The main factors influencing the formation of the social and professional identity of the individual are underlined. Attention is focused on the conditions that contribute to the transformation of professional identity. The results of the study of the change in the level of competence in social interaction are presented. Conclusions are made that interactive methods of teaching contribute to the development of the personality.

The results of empirical analysis received by carrying out questioning of students of the Kuban State Technological University are considered.The main purpose of the survey was to determine the attitude of youth to the problem of parasitism in the modern Russian society. In the questionnaire, attention was paid to the problem of modern perception of the concept of “parasitism”, and its modern interpretation. A separate block of questions that determine the willingness of respondents to the introduction of legislative initiatives of a fiscal nature is presented. Also it is analyzed social, educational identity of students to particular strata. In conclusion, the authors offer that today’s definition of the term “parasite” is very different from that which was existed in language and “labels” of the Soviet state. And also they consider that society is not ready to take legislative initiatives in this area to date.

In article features of behavior of the nonadult convict in the conditions of penitentiary adaptation and the subsequent resocialization are analyzed. The merits which are shown in behavior of the condemned teenager in the course of serving of criminal penalty in the form of imprisonment such as obstinacy, impudence, thoughtless determination, readiness to go for criminal offense, resourcefulness, unscrupulousness, submission to friends criminals and many other things are given negative, as well as. The author has revealed the fact that the minor convicts experiencing difficulties during penitentiary adaptation to imprisonment conditions show high sensitivity in relation to valid or in a false manner the understood social injustice, differ in diffidence, uneasiness, indecision.

The article analyzes the significance of the value-motivational orientations of employees at various stages of organizational transformation. It considers the criteria for classifying organizational changes and existing change management models. It attempts to create a strategy for transformation and the formation of value-motivational orientations of employees in conditions of organizational transformation on the basis of Kurt Levin’s model.

The intensification of the use of information and communication technologies in judicial activities stipulates the need for the formation of an electronic repository of documents of a federal court of general jurisdiction. This process requires solving applied, practical problems. The theoretical and legal basis of this process should be based on the aggregate and interrelationship of the procedural, technological, office-work and organizational-administrative aspects.

Questions concerning the openness as a necessary condition of the activity of bodies of the state fire service are considered in the article. It is stated that the current legislation in the considered sphere of the public relations needs further improvement. Author’s suggestions for improvement of the existing penal legislation are defined.

The problem of the effectiveness of the innovation function of the state as one of the main directions of its activity at the beginning of the XXI century is investigated in the article. Theoretical approaches to understanding the effectiveness of the state and legal impact on the life of society are investigated. The purposes of the innovation function of the state, factors and criteria for the effectiveness of the relevant state activities are revealed. The objective and subjective conditions for the effectiveness of state regulation of the public relations in the sphere of innovations and innovation activity are investigated. The interrelations between the effectiveness of the innovation function of the state and the innovation culture existing in the society are revealed. The expediency of using the method of social and legal experiment for checking the effectiveness of the innovation function of the state is substantiated.