Specification significance of definition «social potential» in conceptual-terminological apparatus

In the article researches the categories social possibility, social stock, social capital, social potential, social reserve, social resource with the goal to identify their meanings in conceptual-terminological apparatus of scientific knowledge. A comparison of “social potential” and “potential” makes for establishment fact of primate of one and another above the others non synonymous categories investigated in this article. An exclusive category “social potential” able to replace the rest revealed.