Abstract

Substantiated the position that ideology of social work is a mechanism to achieve a balance of public interests and performs the function of social integration in accordance with basic ideas that form its structure. Proposed a definition of ideology of social work as a system of ideas, values, value orientations, goals and ideas of ways of its implementation based on the current state of social interaction between interests of stakeholders in the state and civil society, aimed at social integration of social groups or individuals who have difficulties in social functioning and development. The article highlights the contradictions of the ideology of social work; basis of contradictions is the interaction of interest of civil society and the state. Practical implications: sociological research of ideology as the foundation of social development, sociology of social sphere, the theory of the welfare state.