Social security is a complex comprehensive concept that is heterogeneously covered by academic disciplines. This article examines the collective monograph «Social Security and Human Protection in the Modern Russian Society», published in 2022 in its third edition. It is devoted to the problems of social security, its theoretical and methodological description and practical realization; the views on the concept of «social security» from different disciplines such as sociology, cultural studies, law, psychology are presented. In the course of the work, the team of authors analyzed a variety of materials from domestic and foreign sources. This is the first such publication summarizing the experience of understanding social security by different academic disciplines and social practices.
social security; social reality; social protection; human protection; Russian modern society.