ign="justify"> of our country as a welfare state, the transition to the new social relations calls for a new social policy, a new approach that is able to provide high social security of citizens. concept of "social relations" found in the philosophical, legal, social and other literature and is used in the broad and narrow sense. For many years the term "social relations" is used as a synonym for "public relations" [14, p. 51]. Today, social relationships are increasingly seen not only in the broad sense as a synonym for social relations, but also narrow - as part of public relations. On the concept and nature of social relations in the narrow sense, there are different points of view of scientists [10, p. 21]. The most significant of these are the conclusions AB Kozlov, who notes that these relations occupy an intermediate position between the economy and politics, between base and superstructure that is inherent social communities such as class, nation, group, family and individual, in the center of social life - people its position and place in society, conditions and style of life, needs [6, p. 7]. principles and essence of social policy reflected in the Basic Law - the Constitution of Ukraine [9, p.34], the rules which are the basis of all state and legal regulation of social relations. should be noted that at each stage of the historical development of society the concept of social protection, social policy had its specific meaning, which found its reflection in the relevant sources of law. today's environment social policy, based on laid down in the law guarantees social protection, designed to ensure the realization of one of the fundamental principles of the welfare state - social justice [6, p. 29]. social justice in the context of social policy, we note that it is a difficult-structured category relationships social subject and society on the community response to the realization of human rights and freedoms and responsibilities of a citizen. In these circumstances, social justice, on the one hand, it is the guarantor of social security entity [4, p. 17], on the other - one of the most significant social indicators that reflect the actual state of equality and inequality. legal literature observed attempts to classify socio-economic rights and provide them with social, and basis for the classification were different criteria [1, p. 26]. these terms of various authors on the problems of allocation of social rights in an independent group can reach a general conclusion about their orientation, namely the material and spiritual needs of society, the definition of the social status of people, as well as protection to various aspects of their lives at the expense of society. social policy should be understood as a system of legal, organizational and other measures of public and private institutions and organizations, taking into account the country's economic potential and aimed at maintaining social stability ...
