Koshlyak M. Person's social maturity category in scientific and pedagogical research (30s of the ХХ - the beginning of the ХХІ century).

Object of research - personality's social maturity as a pedagogical phenomenon; subject of research - scientific and pedagogical scientists' research on the study of the "social maturity" category (30s of the 20th - the beginning of the 21st century); methods of research: general scientific; historical and pedagogical; historical and structural; historical and comparative; purpose of the study is to uncover and holistically characterize the genesis of scientific thought on the problem of studying a personality's social maturity category (30s of the 20th - the beginning of the 21st century) based on the study of pedagogical sources; scientific novelty: For the first time, scientific approaches to the problem of studying the personality's social maturity have been holistically characterized (30s of the 20th - the beginning of the 21st century); the chronological period from the 30s of the 20th - to the beginning of the 21st century has been comprehensively considered in the unity of 3 historiographical stages: the first stage - works of the researchers of the Soviet period (30-80-ies of the 20th century); the second stage - works by researchers of the post-Soviet period (last decade of the 20th century); the third stage - works of modern researchers, starting with the first years of the 21st century to present days.