Kurasova E. Forming the prestige of civil service on the example of the customs service of Ukraine.

The object of the investigation is the civil service as the professional activity. The goal of the investigation is the scientific and theoretical base and development of the structural and logical model of the state customs service prestige forming. The methods of the investigation are the complex of the general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, analogy, raising from the abstractive to the concrete, unity of the historical and logical) and special methods (structural and functional, systematic, comparative and historical). The scientific novelty: criteria of the civil service prestige evaluating that allow measure objective and subjective indexes of prestige are developed; structural and logical model of the state customs service prestige forming is designed. The further development is given for the tools of the investigation of the social status of professional associations. The results of the investigation are used in the in-service training system of the civil servants, at the Academy of the Customs Service of Ukraine, and also, they are implemented in the work with customs officers of the structural units of Dnipropetrovsk customs service.