The article discusses the typology of social concepts based on the detection of semantic structural components for the four sectors: “culture - structure” (social patterns are in the basis of society that are objectively resulting from economic and cultural activities of people), “structure - nature” (the society is determined by natural structures), “subject - nature” (the society is the result of a predefined nature of the human will) and “culture - subject” (cultural deterministic conscious action of individuals are dominated in a society).

The article focuses on the role of axioms in the sociological processes based on anthropological approach and scientific logic. The analysis is based on ancient ideas (perceiving them as axioms) that allows to implement the interconnection of the times, providing an evolutionary component in the cognition of social processes in contemporary Russian society. Adopted by human axioms (personal truths) form mentality. Mentality, as a way of world perception and adaptation to reality. The amount of arguments on this subject is big enough while constructive ideas on the methodology of management of development of mentality are virtually absent. It is proposed an axiomatic approach to the development of social processes.

The necessity of accentuation of attention on developments of the social and labor relations in staff of the enterprises is theoretically and empirically established. It is based on the integrated indicator characterizing trust between various vocational and status groups. Indicators and subject orientation of trust in the system of social and labor relations as well as the measure of its impact on formation of social and professional construct of the identity of workers are defined.

The article is devoted to the sociological research of the assessment business social responsibility impact on rising of the enterprise employees’ living standard. The questionnaire for research of internal social responsibility of business is determined. It is allowed to analyze the personnel’s demographic characteristics; the assessment of their life’s quality and social status, including income level and wages; working conditions; intangible factors that determine the working life collective’s quality; the analysis of professional expectations and labor potential of organization workers. Based on these characteristics analysis and relevant conclusions the recommendations were made.

The improvement of social security, as well as the quality of life of the population, has a positive impact on improving the demographic situation in the region. Mortality is reduced, average life expectancy is increased, the incidence of people decreases, and the quality of manpower is improved. The fight against alcoholism, maintaining a healthy lifestyle especially mass sports as well as social protection of citizens has a particularly great influence on the population of the region. The highest unemployment rate in the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region was observed during the economic crisis of 1998-1999. At this time, the demographic situation in the region is sharply deteriorating. In the article, based on the analysis of statistical data, conclusions are drawn on the effectiveness of the main directions for improving the quality of life of the population of the region, and their impact on the socio-demographic situation

Processes of social and cultural dynamics in the Kaliningrad region cannot be understood without consideration of new ways of effective use of available human and material resources, development of cultural strategies to promote policies of cultural integration. Scientific issues of cultural integration in the territory of the Baltic States are always multilayered, but the main ones are the development trends of the socio-cultural situation in a complex geopolitical environment. In these conditions, the Kaliningrad oblast shows miracles of resilience in all areas of humanistic activities, forming the paradigm of peace-building in the land of the southeastern Baltic. Despite the economic difficulties, the region has not changed over the years, his humanistic status. The solution of a complex set of problems, as an internal policy of the Kaliningrad region, and cooperation with neighboring States is the main strategy of cultureware. Despite the change of signs of civilization and permanently changing the geopolitical settings, the cul tural field in the region of South-Eastern Baltic has not changed.

The development of provisions of the labor theory of property from the classical ideas to developments of St. Petersburg school of economic sociology are considers in the article. The provision on social and economic laws of development of property proceeding from its labor basis is selected, to be exact the law of property on result of joint work in the conditions of social production is formulated and reveals. It is the main contribution of scientists of St. Petersburg school of economic sociology to development of the labor theory of property.

Tendencies of development of an education system of adults are analyzed in the article. Psychological features of participants of educational process are considered. The basic principles and models of training are defined. Relevance of interactive methods of training is emphasized. Special attention is paid to social interaction of subjects of educational process. Ways of the solution of problems at interactive training are considered. The interrelation of style of training and results of training is shown. The practical experience of the author in recent years is generalized.

The article analyzes the different methods of diagnosis of employee’s value orientations in the context of value-based management theory. The paper deals with the problem of the appropriateness of using existing diagnostics tools in relation to different professional and qualification employees groups. It presents the results of an empirical research of value orientations banking sector employees by the method of M. Rokich modified by V. A. Yadov. It gives a comparative analysis of the revealed differences in the employee’s values hierarchy of different age and vocational qualification groups.

At the present stage of the development of society - in the age of total informatization, public consciousness is largely predetermined by the influence of the mass media. The ubiquitous spread of the media now has a huge impact on the formation of public conscious ness, especially among a social group such as youth. At the present stage there is a problem of “shifts” of standards and values of young people. In particular distortion of their vital purposes, aspiration to certain mythical “success”, the consumer relation to education and self-development is observed (studying only of those disciplines, the directions, specialties which are considered prestigious and highly paid). In many ways, this is due to the impact of those images that are imposed by the media.

Formation of organizing competence of students at today’s stage of development of educational institutions is impossible without existence of the developed structure of public organizations and associations which allows to students to be guided better in the professional qualities, and also to increase motivation to occupations by subject matters. The key place in the course of formation of competence is taken by the youth scientific organizations which system needs to be expanded.

The article studies the process of law-making at the regional level as an object of theoretical comprehension. Lawmaking is one of the important areas of work of any state. This is a specific intellectual activity that requires special knowledge and skills, related to the creation or modification of existing legal norms in the state. According to the results of law-making work - laws and other normative acts - the state as a whole, its degree of democracy, civilization, and culture are judged. Lawmaking is the activity of authorized bodies of the state, aimed at creating, changing or abolishing legal norms. In the article, law-making is considered as the activity of the people (population) of the subject of the Russian Federation, state bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation (legislative (representative) and executive bodies, officials); non-state bodies (local selfgovernment bodies, public organizations and associations); citizens residing in the territory of the subject of the Russian Federation.

The article explores the problems of constitutional and legal protection of intellectual property. In most modern constitutions, intellectual property is an independent object of constitutional and legal regulation, not only as a system of economic relations, but also as subjective rights to results of intellectual activity. It determines the application of special constitutional and legal ways of protection of such subjective rights. Constitutional legal protection, constitutionalization processes are one of the decisive factors influencing on reliability of the state systems of investments protection of foreign investors and results of intellectual activity in the modern world

In this article there the main aspects of the role of the bureaucracy in the history and theory of public administration are considered. It is raised the problem of correlation of the term “bureaucracy” and “bureaucratism”. The major aspects of bureaucracy, as well as methods of debureaucratisation in the Russian history are analyzed. There is information about the basic tools against bureaucracy.

The paper presents the statistical aspects of the study of female crime. It is analyzed not only direct statistics researched issues, but also the reasons which formed the basis for the occurrence of this problem. It is identified practical aspects of issues - the main social, economic and legal consequences for public safety. Opportunities for formation of qualitative socially responsible behavior of women after release are presented. The forecast about relevance of this problem volume in the future is given. Measures of concrete impact on a criminogenic situation among women are proposed.