Методологические проблемы и ориентиры исследования социального неравенства

The Object of the Study. Social inequality. The Subject of the Study. Methodology and guidelines of the social inequality studies. The Purpose of the Study. Support efforts of researchers in the field of the social inequality. The Main Provisions of the Article. Ideological basement of the studies of social inequality is the indispensable precondition of ensuring their scientific profoundness, reliability and practical value. In the current article two types of social policy are differenciated: the first one is based on the nesessity of the total elimination of the social inequaltiy in the future, and the second one - on the assumption of unchanging nature of social inparity in the public life. Different types of social policy of a government or of major social actors define a specific set of necessary and sufficient problems which have to be scientificantly deep formulated and solved.