The main problem: the article examines the mechanisms of formation of socialization of the individual and social competence, which is currently in the center of attention of pedagogical science and the educational process. The concept of the state provides for the assimilation by students of specific elements of social experience studied within the framework of a separate subject – knowledge, skills, abilities, experience in solving problems and creative activity. Objective: the results of training should be applied in real life situations. Personal results should be reflected in the formation of the system of value relations, appeal to oneself, other participants in the educational process, the educational process itself. Methods: therefore, educational institutions in the context of the State Compulsory Educational Standard are focused on creating conditions for the development of a personality capable of socially – progressive self-realization in society, expressed in the desire of a person to realize himself as part of society, on the basis of social competence. Results and their significance: The development of social competence in the lesson of any subject is one of the ways to achieve the set goal. Social competence is a special skill, the ability to find a compromise between self-realization and social adaptation, the ability to achieve maximum fulfillment of one's own desires without infringing on the rights of others to fulfill their own desires.