SOCIAL STATE: THE GENESIS OF THE CONCEPT AND ITS POLITICAL AND LEGAL CONCEPTUALIZATION IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN SOCIAL PROCESSES.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the problem of formation of the social state and its political and legal conceptualization. The article presents analytical material on the history of the formation of the social state in Russia and abroad. As the objectives of this study, the authors identified the consideration of the process of political and legal conceptualization of the concept of "social state", its organizational forms, features of the formation of the Russian national model. The authors of the study analyze the main stages of the process of forming a social state in Russia and abroad. In the study, the authors came to the conclusion that in the context of what is happening currently in Russia the evolution of the national state, the necessity of selecting the appropriate ideological paradigm as most important circumstances for statebuilding is the examination of existing views on state and law and, accordingly, opinions on the legal model for the creation of the welfare state, which can be successfully implemented only on the basis of national peculiarities of building social state in Russia, interests of political elites, socio-economic and legal situation in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]