Abstract: The process of forming civic guidelines for the social competence of the younger generation is analyzed using the example of the activities of the additional education system in St. Petersburg. The practices of forming civic guidelines for the social competence of the younger generation were chosen as the object of this study. The article presents the materials of a study conducted on the basis of the city Center for Patriotic Education and Preventive Work in 2022, during which the practices of civic and patriotic education of students of educational organizations in St. Petersburg were studied in detail. Two components of the process of forming the social competence of the younger generation were identified: the construction of the semantic content of the value of patriotism (the formulations used to describe this value in the documents studied), as well as the forms of representation of this value directly during the educational process (the forms and types of activities in which students are directly involved). In addition, the frequency of mentions of certain semantic categories in the general discourse space of the Center's activities was recorded. The main methods of scientific research are the method of document analysis and the method of semi-structured interviews. To interpret the results, the authors based the research on the theory of social constructionism and the theory of discourse analysis by E. Laclo and S.Mouff. The authors conclude that today the patriotism is the most important civic quality for the formation of social ties in modern Russia. In some cases its significance is so great that it completely replaces the semantic content of the concept of "citizenship". At the same time, there is a tendency to militarize the concept of patriotism both at the level of constructing its semantic content and in the course of representation practices, presented mainly through semantic categories and activities inextricably linked to military subjects. The authors record the discrepancy between the understanding of the semantic content of civic values by modern adolescents and the older generation. This situation suggests that the existing practices of representing patriotism are not fully consistent with the ideological demands of both the state and the younger generation, which indicates the need to search for new images of civic values.

Keywords: Education, Applied research, Civic values, Social constructionism, Discourse analysis, younger generation, Additional education, Citizenship, Patriotism, Social competence

Abstract: The work is devoted to the problem of harmonious aging of the population, which is one of the most significant in the XXI century. The subject of the study is a model of socio-psychological support of elderly people in the post-labor period. The authors conducted a sociological analysis of the criteria for the effectiveness and efficiency of the model of socio-psychological support, developed on the basis of the eudemonistic approach within the framework of existential-humanistic psychology. The paper presents the results of a survey of 156 pensioners of the Republic of Moldova, Transnistria, in 2021. The most vulnerable categories of elderly people, the differences between the categories of working and non-working pensioners, the relationship between the subjective assessment of loneliness and psychological well-being are identified. The novelty of the study is to create a new model of socio-psychological support for elderly people in the post-work period. The work highlights the components of psychological well-being that need to be focused on when developing a project of systemic socio-psychological support for older people in the post-work period, namely: environment management, personal growth, purpose in life and self-acceptance, positive relationships with other people. It is concluded that it is necessary to increase the level of awareness of elderly people regarding their needs for psychological assistance to improve the quality of life in general and psychological well-being in particular.

Keywords: psychological assistance, social activity, loneliness, psychological well-being, socio-psychological support, post-work period, pensioners, elderly people, quality of life, Transnistria