Dyshlevyi I. Freedom as a form of expression of the social.

Object: how social institutions that implement the ideas of freedom and human rights in different historical periods and different social groups in modern Ukraine, which are in the process of social interactions. Aim: The conceptualization of the category of "freedom" in a sociological perspective, mapping the place and role of liberty in the procedural side of social, highlighting links the phenomenon of freedom with the components of different social subsystems of the changing Ukrainian society. Methods: Analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction; comparison, classification, interdisciplinary and systemic-structural methods, mass survey and content analysis of press; factor analysis. Theoretical and practical results: marked out a number of key modes of manifestation of the freedom phenomenon from the perspective of social, ethical representation; mental facilities; properties and qualities of the subject, which demanded by the time, labor market and by the individual, value judgments about forms of dependence. Social as an integral characteristic of freedom is revealed through the constructs of "institutional" and "self organization" and grounded the sociological point of view. Novelty: theoretical base for the analysis of freedom as a form of social manifestations is created. It plays an important role in the procedural side of the social. Degree of implementation: The research results were used in teaching the course "Sociology", "History of Sociology"," Sociology of personality", "The Sociology of freedom", "Sociology of Culture" for the students of the Odessa National University named after I.I. Mechnikov.