Social competency of the professional groups of water transport experts: constitualization of a sociological research

The article deals with theoretical and practical aspects of sociological researching the problems of the development of branch experts’ social competency in modern societies, oriented to professionalization and optimization of using labour resources. Within general sociological and subdisciplinary sociological approaches, some tendencies of distinguishing the empirical and sociological methods of investigating social competence in the contexts of problem planes of the expert activity are analysed. Some directions and perspectives of the sociological analysis of a wide range of social, professional, social and psychological, pedagogical and educational factors of the personality social competence development are grounded.