Noospheric social quality: from theory to design

Theoretical principles of social quality, quality of life and the noosphere paradigm of global social development are considered. Conclusions about the separate character of working out the principles in question, existence of common gnoceological, ontological and axiological prerequisites of characterizing the processes and structures in modern societies are drawn. The authors compare the social structure sustainability of state-monopoly socialism and people's humanistic socialism – the society of Noospheric harmony. Conclusions are drawn about the impossibility of sustainable development in the paradigm of state-capitalist, oligarchic-elitist societies and the necessity to be guided by the noosphere paradigm of global social development, enriching it with the theories of social quality and quality of life and forming the society of people's humanistic socialism.