The request from authorities and the public for receiving a sociological portrait of students of system of secondary professional education in the conditions of market economy assumes use of complex innovative and evidence-based techniques of its creation. The article presents theoretical-methodological foundations of sociological research whose purpose is to receive evidence-based portrait of applicants, students and graduates of secondary professional education. It proves that the comprehensive description of social and status lines, career expectations and the educational strategy of this social community has to be based on the heuristic potential of resource, valuable and motivational and functional approaches and be carried out within a neoclassical paradigm of scientific research. The social research which being built on these conceptual bases, would promote adequate identification of the problem parties of development and transformation of students of the system of secondary professional education. It will create a possibility of updating of training programs according to the current inquiries as labor market and students, and will become a basis of improvement of the policy of the secondary professional education organizations directed to development of methods of involvement of entrants.

Keywords: system of secondary professional education, complex sociological portrait, students as social group, educational strategy, professional installations

A dynamic cooperative games formalization of the problem of concordance of interests of the social partnership agents the the system of continuing professional education is proposed. The setup based on the previously considered differential games in normal form. The time consistency problem and its sociological interpretation are discussed.

Keywords: differential games in normal form, differential cooperative games, time consistency, continuing professional education, social partnership

The paper presents the theoretical and methodological bases of research in the social partnership system of additional vocational education through building dynamic game-theoretic models of interaction.

Keywords: social partnership, additional professional education, game theory, simulation

Presents materials of the reports presented at the section "Technologies of modeling socio-cultural interactions in multi-ethnic regions" international scientific conference of young scientists "Actual problems of modeling, designing and forecasting of social and political processes in multicultural space of modern society". The organizer of the specified partition conference was organized by the North-Caucasian scientific center of higher school and the Department of modeling of social processes of the southern Federal University. The materials reflect the results of research of young scientists, postgraduates and undergraduates, obtained with the use of various aspects of model-based approach.

Keywords: Technology, modeling, social modeling, socio-cultural interaction,multi-ethnic region

A cooperative game theoretic model of dynamics of the trust level between subjects of the system of optional professional education is proposed. Some approaches to the model identification and investigation based on simulation modeling and differential cooperative game theory are considered.

Keywords: social partnership, optional professional education, differential cooperative games, simulation modeling, identification

Relations between subjects of the system of social partnership in the domain of optional professional education are modeled by a voting game. For the 3-person voting game a comparative analysis of such optimality principles as C-core, NM-decision, and Shapley value for the typical values of the players' voices is conducted.

Keywords: social partnership, optional professional education, voting games, C-core, NM-decision, Shapley value