SYSTEMIC FACTORS OF SOCIAL SECURITY LAW: GOAL-SETTING
Background: the article is devoted to the substantiation of the teleological approach to the analysis of the conditions for ensuring a holistic, stable and internally consistent state of the legal branch under study. Objective: to characterize the current state of the problem and, in accordance with the chosen research methodology, formulate the author’s position in understanding the legal branch purpose. Methodology: a combination of general scientific (dialectical, historical, system-structural) and private scientific (formal- legal, comparative-legal, legal modeling and hermeneutics) research methods are used. Results: in the course of the work, it was revealed that the domestic legislation and the legal industry doctrine do not offer the certain answers in relation to the industry goal, which required a thorough theoretical understanding of the category under consideration. Conclusions: a reasoned opinion about the fact that the phenomenon under study is a system of subordinate institutional tasks, conditioned and generated by the process of resolving (removing) the dialectical contradiction within social security relations is given. The legal branch purpose (general purpose) is considered as the expected, possible and equilibrium state of regulated social relations that meets the certain criteria.