Biskup V. Career competence of student youth: sociological aspect.

The dissertation presents the results of a study of the system factors of formation and realization of the career competence. The integral components of the career are identified as a complexly organized phenomenon of individual and social life. The institutional parameters of career formation, their influence on the trajectory of individual social mobility of student youth are determined. For the first time, the conceptual principles of the analysis of professional competence as a social phenomenon with the use of a structural paradigm and the theory of social tension are proposed, as well as features of its formation and development on the example of student youth are revealed. Based on the analysis of the system of micro, meso- and macrolevels factors (in particular, socio-psychological, sociocultural and institutional factors), an authorial approach to the analysis of career competence is proposed. The categorial-conceptual apparatus of the study and realization of career competence is clarified and systematized. The author's interpretation of the concept of "career" as a multidimensional phenomenon is proposed. The sociological interpretation and operationalization of concepts «price of a career» and “career competence” is proposed and clarified. According to the author's definition, career competence is interpreted as a multidimensional construct consisting of competences of professional and personal profiles. In the empirical part of the study, based on indicators of career self-realization, career competence and professional status claims, four groups of students are distinguished, differing in the potential of professional self-realization and need different content of vocational guidance.