ON THE PROBLEM OF NOTIONS AND CATEGORIES AS STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE SCIENCE OF SOCIAL SECURITY LAW
On the basis of theoretical provisions of structural elements in legal science, we study the notions and categories of the science of social security law. To systematise legal knowledge in the science of social security law, we stress the following: the general scientific premise («social security», «health care of citizens»); general legal notions («medical aid», «medicamental aid», «industrial accident», «occupational disease»); proper notions («pension», «employment history», «social allowance», «social service», «hardship») as well as general legal categories («state social security», «compulsory social security», «social protection of citizens», «social service»). To the extent that scientific knowledge related to state social assistance is accumulated, this notion can become a legal category for the science of social security. Besides, the science of social security law can borrow notions from other sciences (for example, «conversion», «valorization», etc.) The notions and categories being primary elements of the system of the science of social security law, on the one hand qualify the determination of its object of understanding, and on the other hand, uniting under the laws of scientific knowledge the form of more difficult scientific constructions. To such constructions in the scientific system in general and in social security law in particular, one should refer hypotheses, conceptions, principles, theories, doctrines, scientific disciplines and scientific sub-branches as well as problems of specific scientific fields.