1.Social State is a complex public phenomenon that is the object of interdisciplinary researches. Of course, the politologists are primarily to consider a certain type of State structure, while the economists consider mechanisms of the national income redistribution, and the legal experts analyze and develop laws, problems of legal ensuring the citizens' social rights, etc.

2.As the history testifies, creating or developing Social State is based on two main foundations - democracy with its state and civil institutions and market economy with its mechanisms. In the world, there often occurs change of the neo-Liberal approach towards maintaining and developing Social State for the Social-Democratic (paternalistic) one. The 2007 presidential elections in France is a vivid example.

3.It is important not just to introduce the democratic ways of the major state decision-making with the institutions of civil society participating in it, but to secure the expansion of the freedom of mass media and criticism of the negative aspects in the life of the society and violations of the citizens' social rights. In the Russian society, there is an increasingly vigorous discussion on restoration of social justice, the State is being grudged for not providing for it.

4.The State, as a rule, serves to express and protect the interests of economically, politically and ideologically dominating strata of the society. The middle class is such a stratum in the majority of the developed countries that gives voice to the vital interests of the overwhelming majority of the population. In Russia, the middle class is still undeveloped and has no real social force of influence.