THE FORMATION OF PERSONALITY’S SOCIOCULTURAL COMPETENCE

The article gives a thorough analyzes of the scientific works of scientists, which highlights the problems ofsociocultural development of a person in modern society. The paper concentrates on the problem of socioculturalcompetence as a value aspect of a person's life and a key indicator of individual readiness to perform professionalactivities. This article features sociocultural (life) competence as a multifaceted and multicomponent phenomenon.There the authors also found out the importance of individual’s sociocultural competence formation in the process oftraining and proved the place and role of sociocultural competence in the structure of vocational education. Thispaper establishes some key approaches, principles, forms, methods and means of sociocultural competenceformation of a person. The authors focus on the systemic, activity-oriented, professionally oriented, personalityoriented and cultural aspects of the methodology for the implementation of the sociocultural content of educationalprograms. Special attention is given to the conditions of modern state of the development of Ukraine, which stress asociocultural aspect of its (Ukraine) educational reforms. Sociocultural competence can be considered as a neweducational stratageme. The study revealed that the sociocultural competence formation contributes to thedevelopment of the main goals of education, namely practical, progressive and educational. The authors admits thatthe purpose of modern education is to stimulate personal growth (self-development) and improve the creativepotential of each individual. The conclusion is that education plays a major role in solving the problem, firstly,vocational education, secondly, sociocultural reproduction and, thirdly, personality formation. To sum up theauthors emphasizes that the phenomenon of sociocultural competence is inextricably linked with the process of theformation of a person in modern society, his assimilation of the norms and technologies for performing a certainsocial role.