The Social Competence of Police Cadets as Sociology Conception

• Authors: Vitalii Kiikov
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the definition of social competence and its application in police practice, introduction of the police officer social competence structure, the subsequent description of its components. The efficiency in problems solving, which police officer encounter in daily service, as well as the quality of cooperation between police and community directly depends on the level of social competence development, the interiorization of social norm and values in personality structure of police officer, such as tolerance, respect of human rights, motivation for social interaction, culture of communication, social intelligence, emotionally-volitional stability etc. Therefore, the objectives of educative work in police high school have to include the purposeful formation of social competence as a requirement of contemporary democratic society. Another aspect of social competence formation in police cadets through educational means is utilization of moral potential of education, which is essential in rapidly changing societies for efficient socialization of such professional group as police officers.

Keywords

EN

social competence; policing; social interaction; sociocultural environment; socialization; vocational education

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies of Changing Societies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 2013
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 64-76

Dates

online

2014-11-05

Contributors

author

Vitalii Kiikov

• University of internal affairs, Kharkov. Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/scs-2014-0169