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Using the latest educational technologies and active methods of social activity development in future specialists in the educational space under today's conditions is significantly complicated by existing levels of the object and subject studies of various patterns. The authors studied a wide range of foreign and domestic interdisciplinary works and models which describe the implementation of research methodology of the individual socialization process to study the development of specialists' social activity. Also, the authors defined the relevant patterns of students' involving in socially significant activities due to the changes in value-motivational aspects at different stages of social activity development at the higher education institution. The structural and functional components are determined, and the research parameters specifying the changes of value-motivational factors of social activity development in future socionomy specialists are substantiated. The article provides empirical diagnostics of values among the students of socionomic professions within the sociological and pedagogical research of social activity with the participation of 610 students from four Ukrainian higher education institutions. The diagnostics was carried out by means of the shortened version of the "Portrait Questionnaire of Values - PVQ-Revised". It has been found out that the development of social activity in future socionomy specialists is mainly related to changes in motivational aspects at different levels of generality and complexity; it includes such constructs as values, goals, behavior plans which require a qualitative analysis of social factors and identification of relevant patterns of students' involvement in socially significant activities.

The article presents the results of the typologization of Ukraine's rural settlements by the level of their provision by objects of the service sphere, which characterizes the conditions for the people to obtain a collection of vitally necessary services at the places of residence; and clarifies the changes, which have occurred in the social infrastructure of villages on the household level in the transformational period, and the perspectives to improve the access of the rural population to high-quality services according to the principles of the development of villages.

Is a social complex identical to many united people or is it a group entity in addition to the people? For specificity, I will assume that a social complex is a plural subject in Margaret Gilbert's sense. By appeal to my theory of Aspects, according to which there can be qualitative difference without numerical difference, I give an answer that is a middle way between metaphysical individualism and metaphysical holism. This answer will enable answers to two additional metaphysical questions: (i) how can two social complexes have all the same members and (ii) how can there be a social complex of social complexes?

This article reveals the relevance of the topic associated with the need to modernize modern society. It gives a conceptual apparatus that characterizes this phenomenon. At the same time, the article outlines the difficulties and debatable issues that arise in the course of modernization. The article also substantiates the optimal model for the modernization of modern society and analyzes the practice of reforming individual segments of the social sphere.